Some LaTeX related HELP links

The following links have been quickly put together to attempt to help anyone who wishes to find help on LaTeX and related packages at Brunel and from the numerous sites outside of Brunel.

My LaTeX notes
To run the demo in the lab session on the Windows XP PCs you need to download the zip file, unzip the contents and then run the batch file latdemo.bat in a command prompt window. There needs to be the C compiler cl.exe in the path to compile crerrorlevel.c, wget.exe needs to be in the path and you need to be on the internet to be able to download certain files.

General links outside of Brunel

The TeX User Group Home Page.

The CTAN site in the UK. This has fast access if you need to download things.

The TeX Catalogue Online.

FAQ

A free book like description of LaTeX

Home pages of some popular implementations

fpTeX, MiKTeX, Texlive, teTeX.

Specific help from files at Brunel

The following point to html files stored on the Brunel networks which are part of the TeTeX or MiKTeX implementations. Use the W2K ones from within Windows and the Solaris ones when you are using Unix via the exceed program.

Access from a Windows 2000 PC

brief. latex2e.

Access from Solaris -- Feb 2004 version

newhelpindex, helpindex. index.

Access from Solaris -- July 2001 version

newhelpindex, helpindex. index.

Access from pc in m301

SUSE LINUX VERSION OF TETEX: newhelpindex, newhelpindex, helpindex. helpindex. index. index. ltx-2. ltx-2.

SOLARIS VERSION OF TETEX: newhelpindex, helpindex. index. ltx-2.

MIKTEX on L: brief. latex2e