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From: clarke@hpdtl.HP.COM (Marc Clarke)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Where do I get LaTeX book?
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Date: 31 Aug 90 22:35:22 GMT
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> / hpdtl:comp.text.tex / andrew@brownvm.brown.edu (Andrew Gilmartin) /  9:14 am  Jul 25, 1990 /
> In article <406@bartal.CRLABS.COM> phillip@bartal.CRLABS.COM (Phillip M. 
> Vogel) writes:
> 
> > Subject: Where do I get LaTeX book?
> 
> If you are new to TeX and LaTeX I would suggest that you buy
> 
>      LaTeX for engineers and scientists
>      David Buerger
>      McGraw Hill
>      1990
>      ISBN 0-07-008845-4
> 
> The book is well organized and easy to read.
> 
> What do others think of this book? (I am sorry if this has been asked 
> before but, as they say, I'm new here).
> 
> -- Andrew Gilmartin
>    Computing & Information Services
>    Brown University
>    andrew@brownvm.brown.edu

I had high hopes for this book, but was rather disapointed.  It does not
cover two-column printing nor does it explain the difference between one and
two column figures or tables.  It is a good companion to the "real" LaTeX
book, 

LaTeX User's Guide and Reference Manual
Leslie Lamport
Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1986

Lamport write LaTeX (Lamport's TeX).