TeX user groups DK-TUG (Danish TeX Users Group) TUG (TeX Users Group) TeX Users Group Worldwide

FAQs, books, tutorials

• A bit of history: Just what is TeX?
• TeX Frequently Asked Questions on the Web from UK TUG.
• Introduktion til LaTeX (in Danish) by Lars Madsen, Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, University of Aarhus.
• Pointers to Frequently Asked and Answered Questions from TUG.
  
• The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX2e  by Tobias Oetiker.
• Bibliographies and Metafont from pages by Nelson H. F. Beebe.
• MetaPost on the Web from TUG.
• Books about TeX & Friends with 30% discount!.

Sources and resources

• AU letter class for LaTeX: aultrdesign
• CTAN (Comprehensive TeX Archive Network) with main sites in Germany, UK and USA,
  and many mirror sites, including Danish mirror.
• TeX Live
• TeX Resources on the Web
• The TeX Catalogue Online by Graham Williams, with listing of over 3000 packages and tools.

On the strength and weakness of TeX
(from http://www.topology.org/soft/tex.html by Allan Kennington)

TeX has caused me to weep with frustration far more often than any other piece of software. The full use of TeX
requires an IQ in excess of 150. The plain TeX textbook is one of the most incomprehensible user manuals
ever written. The TeX language is one of the worst-designed and incomprehensible languages ever invented.If there were any software that could achieve similar results with less pain, I would use it. One can only pray that some day someone will write a comprehensive rationally thought-out front end for TeX and a user manual that assumes an IQ less than 200. (Since gods are all in the mind, praying has no hope of success, but it does relieve the pain a little.)