Support and Documentation

Support and Documentation

  • IT Services;
  • Faculty IS teams.
  • Freely-downloadable distributions;
  • books;
  • on-line documentation;
  • user-groups;
  • UoM email list.



 

LaTeX Support from ITS at The UoM

Official Support
  • This course!
Installed Software
  • Likely available on Linux in public clusters (where dual-boot), e.g., MACE.
    • LaTeX comes as standard with all major Linux distros.
  • MikTeX on MS Windows in public clusters???



 

Informal LaTeX Support

School and Faculty
  • EPS: Mike Croucher;
  • FLS: Nick Gresham.
  • Economics and MBS?
Web and Email
  • latex-users@listserv.manchester.ac.uk
    • Shall I add everyone?
  • Beginnings of central UoM Web presence on RCS Community Wiki.



 

TeX Distributions

Linux
TeX Live comes with all(?) major Linux distributions (replacing teTeX).
OS-X
MacTeX
MS Windows
For installation on office and home PCs, I suggest you take a look at MiKTeX.



 

TeX Books and Other Documents

Books
There are many good books available:
Freely-Available Documents
There are several good online introductory tutorials and texts available on the Web.
Other Documents
The LaTeX Cookbook, F Teagle, UMIST, February 1991. This is an excellent recipe book for LaTeX users, unfortunately it is unavailable electronically and is copyrighted by the now defunct SERC. Photocopies are available for a small fee.



 

(La)TeX on the Web

TeX Users' Group
TUG is run by and for its members and represents the interests of TeX users worldwide.
Comprehensive TeX Archive Network
CTAN provides a repository for TeX-related software.
UK TeX Archive
LaTeX3 Project