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This is a popular free beginner's manual by Tobias Oetiker, based on material originally written by Hubert Partl, Irene Hyna, and Elisabeth Schlegl.
This is the basic manual by Leslie Lamport, creator of LaTeX. The second edition was published by Addison-Wesley in 1994.
Published by Wiley in 1999, this book by Antoni Diller is a primer based on examples, some of which are available online. A handy glossary lists the LaTeX commands alphabetically with brief explanations.
This book by George Grätzer is the definitive guide for typesetting mathematics with LaTeX.
For experienced LaTeX users, this book by Michel Goossens, Frank Mittelbach, and Alexander Samarin, published in 1994 by Addison-Wesley, is essential reading if you want to go beyond the basics and do customization, use add-on packages, use non-standard fonts, and so forth. If you think there ought to be an easy way to do something in LaTeX, and you can't find it in Lamport's manual, look here next.
Two sequels have appeared devoted to specialized topics: The LaTeX Graphics Companion: Illustrating Documents with TeX and PostScript, by Michel Goossens, Sebastian Rahtz, and Frank Mittelbach, was published by Addison-Wesley in 1997; and The LaTeX Web Companion: Integrating TeX, HTML, and XML, by Michel Goossens and Sebastian Rahtz with Eitan Gurari, Ross Moore and Robert Sutor, was published by Addison-Wesley in 1999.
This book by Helmut Kopka and Patrick W. Daly has many useful examples. It was published by Addison-Wesley in 1999.
By Donald E. Knuth, grand wizard and creator of TeX, this work is the holy book of the TeX world, reprinted numerous times since its first printing in 1984. Look here for definitive information about TeX, the program that underlies LaTeX.
The Math 696 course
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