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LaTeX Summary  (PDF - 292 kilobytes)
A summary of how to use LaTeX to write a document.
Includes an introduction to LaTeX, Producing Simple Documents using LaTeX, Mathematical Formulae using LaTeX, Further Features of LaTeX (including Blank Spaces: Fine Tuning) and lists of Control Sequences used in Text and Mathematics.

The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List  (PDF - 1014 kilobytes)
Scott Pakin
2 July 2001
A list of all the symbols one can print with LaTeX. Some of which you never even thought of!

LaTeX: from quick and dirty to style and finesse
Prof Tony Roberts, Dept of Mathematics and Computing University of Southern Queensland
3 August, 1998

Online tutorial
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Presentation by George Greenwade at the 1993 TUG Annual Meeting  (text - 38 kilobytes)
This paper, which was published in TUGboat 14, no.3, October 1993, pp.342-351., outlines the concept, development, and use of the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN) --- a network-accessible archive for files related to the TeX family of document processing. I have not been able to compile this .tex file, so if you're interested in the subject you will have to read the source file instead of a formatted version.

Advanced LaTeX  (PostScript - 143 kilobytes)
Tim Love
4 September 1994

The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX2e - Or LaTeX2e in 85 minutes  (PostScript - 2.5 megabytes)
Tobias Oetiker
Ver. 3.1 14 April 1998

An introduction to TeX and friends  (PostScript - 533 kilobytes)
Gavin Maltby
November 1992

References for TeX and Friends
Peter Karp and Michael Wiedmann
2002

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