LaTeX, BibTeX...

LaTeX

 

Manuals you can find on the web:

  • The F.A.Q. of comp.text.tex. More than 400 questions answered...
  • An introduction à LaTeX (in French): It is a basic 60-page manual that I wrote and try to update as regularly as possible (though the last update is 3 year old at the present time).
  • The joli manuel pour LaTeX (in French) by Benjamin Bayart. 150 compact pages, thus many interesting details in that manual. It is being updated, see the current state at the JMPL page.
  • A Simplified Introduction to LaTeX. A very basic, though detailled (140 pages) manual with many examples.
  • Apprends LaTeX (in French), the local guide of ENSTA, written by Marc Baudouin. 100 pages, with basic examples up to non trivial developments.
  • The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX. Also around 100 pages, very basic but less complete than the other ones.
  • An essential guide to LaTeX2ε usage, listing packages and commands that you should not use in your LaTeX documents.
  • Chapter 8 of the LaTeX Companion. It is the chapter about mathematics, it is gently made freely accessible by the authors. Another interesting pointer for mathematics typesetting with LaTeX is the manual of the amsmath package.
  • A very detailled tutorial on math mode, illustrated with numerous examples...
  • The list of mathematical symbols. A must-have for finding the right command names among 6 pages of mathematical symbols.
  • The comprehensive list of symbols, by Scott Pakin. Really more complete than the previous one, it includes all symbols you can (or sometimes can't even) think of.

BibTeX

 

Manuels that are available on web :

  • Tame the BeaST. A 45-page manual about bibliographies in LaTeX, thus mainly about BibTeX. It goes from the basic bibliography to deep BibTeX style file hacking.

    Please note that the French version is not updated anymore.

  • BibTeXing, the original manual by Oren Patashnik, the author of BibTeX. The content of this manual can be found, more or less, in the bibliography-related chapters of classical LaTeX books.
  • Designing BibTeX styles, by the same author, and which explains how to configure BibTeX. It's quite succinct, and many details are missing.

Some home-made BibTeX stuff

  • splitbib is a package that allows you to easily split your bibliography into categories and subcategories. It does not depend on BibTeX, and should be compatible with most of bibliography-related packages. Also available on CTAN at tex/latex/contrib/splitbib
  • Some stuff for building an addressbook. Provided that you write the correct style file, BibTeX can be used for other purposes than bibliographies with LaTeX. Unfortunately, the manual is written in French... But it's not that difficult to understand.
  • A style for automatically building a publication list: BibTeX extracts all the references by a given author and typesets them under the following form:
    Temporal Logic with Forgettable Past. In Proc. 17th Symp. Logic in Computer Science (LICS'2002), Cpoenhagen, Denmark, July 2002. IEEE Comp. Soc. Press, 2002. Joint work with François Laroussinie and Philippe Schnoebelen
  • A style named short based on alpha.bst, but using only author names for the labels (the year is not included). Adds one or two letters of the name in case of duplicate labels, and possibly a number.
  • French bibliographic styles (available on CTAN at biblio/bibtex/contrib/bib-fr) :

  • bibexport.sh is a shell script that exports BibTeX entries into a separate file. It always completely developps the entries w.r.t. crossrefs and abbreviations. It may be used either on an .aux file, for exporting only \cited entries, or on a .bib file, for exporting all of its entries. Here are the required files:

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