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From: farrell@cs.uq.oz.au (Friendless)
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Subject: Re: LaTeX
Keywords: Here I go again...
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Date: 17 May 91 05:48:00 GMT
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In <2427@cluster.cs.su.oz.au> johnz@cs.su.oz (John Zic) writes:
>There really is only one way to learn how to use LaTeX --- go down to your
>library, and look up "LaTeX: a Document Preparation System. User's Guide
>and Reference Manual" by Leslie Lamport.  It is _lot_ easier than trying
>to wrestle with raw TeX!

  I found the only way to achieve anything was to know Tex anyway, so I read
the Tex book from cover to cover. Now I don't worry about latex's ignorance
anymore, because if it don't work straight away I break the bastard so it
never works again :-). BTW, I reckon there are a few things that I would like
to know that aren't in either of these books, and I don't believe that's the
way life's meant to be.


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