Hi Andy,

Wow, what a terrific piece of work! I just looked over a couple of them, and like them very much. I've added a link to them on both begin.html and interest.html. I also wrote to Robin Fairbairns to ask him to include a link in the FAQ entry on the subject.
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=tutorials

Are you writing these straight in HTML, or do you have a TeX version? I'm wondering if you might have time and interest in writing up a print version for TUGboat. This is the kind of stuff TeX users are always clamoring for.

Thanks for writing.

karl

Hi and thanks for putting "Getting to Grips with Latex - Importing Graphics" online. I found a typo in http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/andyr/misc/latex/latextutorial5.html. In the list of options under "Graphicx" is should be "clip" (as you write in the text) instead of "crop"; I don't think "crop" exists at all.

Cheers

Henrik Bengtsson

Hi.

I justed wanted to say that you've made a great latex tutorial. I was browsing the web for a long time to find something like this, that show you from the simple basics to the more difficult things how to write a tex-script.
Great Work!

bye
Markus

Dear Andrew!

With your ingenious LATEX tutorium and specifically with your hint to natbib you have saved my PhD. document and, thus, rescued my nerves!

Many thanks for your great work!

All the best!

Gernot

I stumbled over your LaTeX pages by a Google search.

I've got one comment: The order of the positional arguments for floats is irrelevant. That these parameters should be given in the order of preference is a common mistake.

Best regards,
TN

Sir,

I just wanted you to know that I am using your tutorial on LaTeX to teach myself the language. It's really great, thank you for the effort. Finally, I don't have to put up with MS Word's backwards "Equation Editor", and pay $39.95 extra to do so!

Regards,
Matthew Cole
United States Naval Academy

Hi Andrew,

I was taking a look at your homepage and find some small typos in the page at http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/andyr/misc/latex/.

One is on the section 7 title: "7 **Fomatting**". (Formatting?)

The other one is on the section 0 description: "This is a **precusor** to the following tutorials." (precursor?)

The possibly mistakenly written words are enclosed by "**".

Regards,
Mario

Mr. Roberts,

I have been interested in learning latex for quite some time. I finally decided to buckle down and use it for a project report this semester. To be honest, using google was frustrating when trying to understand straightforward operations. Throughout writing the paper, I was always able to refer to your site and find what I needed. Thanks for an excellent latex resource.

I was also browsing your miscellaneous links. The material is very interesting and useful. Thanks!

Regards,

Timothy M. Lebo

In your introduction to LaTeX you mention that LaTeX for windows is packaged under a name called MiKTeX, well this is true to the extent
that MiKTeX is a popular (free) distribution of LaTeX but untrue otherwise because there are other free ones too.

The most comprehensive is TeXLive (you can download an ISO image and burn to DVD-R or DVD+R), this one has been around for about 9 years
now and gets an annual update, the last one was made on Nov 27.

A new one that just emerged a month or so ago is ProTeXt which is based on MikTeX.

I thought I'd clear this up because there are many people still using the 1990's LaTeX systems with latex + dvips and have not migrated to newer systems such as pdfLatex which generates PDF files directly (and the fonts look very nice too).

- Pan

Hi,

Wanted to thank you for your comprehensive tutorial on Latex which is available on your homepage. I am a graduate student of CSE department in IIT Bombay, India. Had a submission deadline today and your latex tutorial was quite helpful.

Its quite an effort to write down nicely what one knows. Thanks once again!

Best wishes,
Meghana.

hi,
just wanted to thank you for your short latex tips on combining text in math. very useful!

--Tomer

Thanks for the tutorial. It's very helpful and informative. Any chance that you might put a .tar.gz up for download for those of us w/o internet access at our workstations? (Using wget for something like this could be very messy.)

Thanks,
- Lee

I just want to compliment you on your excellent LaTeX tutorials! I
recently started with grad school and was Googling for resources on
LaTeX when found your site. It was (and still is) just what I needed:
clear and to the point. It was probably intended for internal use, but it has been a great help, thanks. Would you mind if I link to it from my site?

Dear Andy,

Your website on latex has helped me now and then. It's a very good website. Plz keep it up.

Wanted help from you. Do you know of a way to include a latex document within the appendix of a latex document. The purpose if you don't understand is that I have to include a paper in a report. And paper was written (also in latex) before than the report.

Thanks for your help in advance.

Regards,

Ritesh Agarwal

Andy,

Thanks a lot for the helpful information ! I am moving from MS word to LaTeX. A lot of fun!
Best Regards
Zheng

I just wanted to write to thank you for the LaTex tutorial you've created. I have tried several tutorials, and found that yours is the best one for my level of understanding. It is EXTREMELY helpful to me. I dabble in html, but the last computer language I learned formally was BASIC and before that it was PASCAL!

I am not even a dissertation writer, just a well-meaning physics grad student wife who volunteered to help format the thing. Little did I know all that entailed!

Thanks again

Hi,

I found your site through google when searching for latex tutorials. Great site and mucho thanks for the tutorials.

You might want to run a spell check on http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/andyr/research/index.html though. "1st yeat [sic] presentation." ;-)

Cheers,
Vijay

Andrew,

Just a quick note to thank you for your brilliant introductory LaTeX tutorials. I am a Masters student in the Economics Department at the University of Manchester and am learning LaTeX to write my dissertation later this year. Your tutorials were a fantastic help thanks, and I am now off to a flying start.

With kind regards,

Robert

Andy,

When I decided to use latex for my thesis/articles, I found your site was an invaluable source of information. Especially the page layout/floats tutorials.

I had to modify the article.cls to get it into the format needed by a conference proceedings...your site got me going in the right direction.

Thanks,
Luke

I'm enjoying and finding very useful your latex tutorials - thanks alot.

I noticed you had a few english style guides referenced. Have you come across Strunk's "Elements of Style"? Old, but a classic.

All the best
tom

Hi Andrew,

Just thought I'd drop you a line and a big thanks for your LaTeX tutes -- simple examples and well-explained! A big help for me writing my thesis :)

Kind regards,
Stew

Hello Andrew:

Only a couple of lines to thank you for your wonderful tutorial on Latex.
After a couple of days of research, it has been in your page where i have
started making sensible my learning on Latex. And congratulations for your clean-looking page and way to present the material. Hope you success in your career.

Julio C. Rguez.
Gran Canaria - Canary Islands

Dear Andrew,

When preparing my paper with the powerful tool LaTex, I faced with some problems related to the figure disply. With the help of Google search, I find some useful detailed information about how to solve such prolem. Thanks you very much.

Andrew,

Just a quick note to thank you for your excellent Latex tutorial website. I have just finished writing my Economics Masters dissertation at the University of Manchester using Latex. In a little over eight months, I have gone from knowing nothing about Latex to producing what I think is a pretty professional looking document using it. In my early stages of "getting to grips" with Latex, I found your website invaluable and would like to thank you for the work you have put into producing this excellent resource. If you are interested, I have posted my dissertation online at http://uk.geocities.com/msradrs3/dissertation.pdf.

Thanks again.

With kind regards,

Robert

Hi,
thanks a lot for your tutorial. But I feel, as a physicist I need to inform you about a mistake on your Mathematics II page.

50 apples x 100 apples != lots of apples . The correct way to put it would be:
50 apples x 100 apples = lots of apples^2

best regards
Uwe Schilling

Hi,
I'm helping a faculty member here to put together a couple of workshops on LaTeX for our Physics/Math/Engineering students, and I found your LaTeX material on the web. Very nice job - thank you for putting those online. May we link to your pages from our workshop ?. How about reproducing parts of it directly (with attribution of course) ?

Thanks,
Richard Brittain

Dear Mr Roberts,

First of all, congratulations for your latex tutorial, concise, (human cost-)effictive, well... it just goes straight to the what is needed.

I do have a question: how would you force latex to get a simple mathematical expression from you then give you back an eps of that
single equation?

The question is simple, the use is obvious, basic I would say; but do you have a simple (or at least practical) answer?

Thanking you in advance,

Yours sincerely,

Didier Bizzarri

Andy,

Thanks for letting me know! I've updated my link to your tutorial.

Let me also thank you for your excellent overview of LaTeX, which I still use as a quick reference whenever I need to remember how to do something that I haven't done ina while. I have recommended your tutorial to a number of people, and they have all also found it very useful.

Thanks again!

Mike De Palatis

Hello

Your latex tutorial is great. Congratulations!

One small comment, though...
To create matrixes in Latex, is is more simple to use the command
$\begin{bmatrix} 1 & 2 \\ 3 & 4 \end{bmatrix}$

instead of

$$ \left[
\begin{array}{ c c }
1 & 2 \\
3 & 4
\end{array} \right]
$$


Cheers
J.F. Vasconcelos

Hi Andy, I was reading your latex tutorials.

they are just great (because easy to understand and still they are covering quite much).

:)

cheers
marco candrian

Dear Andrew,

I have just come across your excellent set of tutorials for latex on the web. I am part of a project developing open source resources for students. One of the products we are working on is an Engineer's Desktop, supplied on a bootable Linux CD. Included in the packages supplied is latex, for which we have a number of tutorials already but I wondered if you would mind if we took some of your work and included it on the CD, suitable modified where required to reflect the CD environment, We would obviously acknowledge your work and give a link to your website.

Regards
Peter Long

Many thanks for making such excellent material publicly available.

- R

Your web site is terrific!

Andy,

Thanks for the great Latex tutorial on your website. I found exactly what I wanted, in a simple-to-understand manner.

Vedank Tripathi
Bangalore, India

I am very grateful to you. I have really learned a lot. I was a novice before reading your tutorial. Now I feel Confident. Thanks a lot. Keep up the good work.

Hello,

I'm a beginner and am enjoying the tutorial. Just a comment... when messing with the {thebibliography} command, I immediately ran into a problem entering the symbol '&', which will occur frequently in Publishers' names. You might want to drop that in your example.

Thanks

Your tutorial on bibtex is awesome. I will surely add this link to my homepage.

I had one question. The manual for makebst link from max planck institute is not available at the link you have given. If you have a copy of it, could you please email me at vishwesha dot guttal at gmail dot com

Thanks a lot

Vishwesha

Thanks for the useful LaTeX, it cleared a few things up I was confused about.

Tom. Fellow Archie.

Hey there, I got to your tutorial from the arch forums. Great stuff!! I have been reading it all at work and can't wait to get home to try my hand at this. Hope I can ditch MS Word for good now!

The only thing I would like your tutorial to include would be this:
I need to make footnotes that would use the full bibliographic reference from the .bib file minus the pages and then let me add the page number I want. I will probably figure it out myself but my research papers really need to show which ideas come from which page of which documents...

Great stuff thanx again!

Hi Andrew,
I wanted a list with all (?) commands for writing mathematical formulas and when I found yours I became so happy! For one moment I thought I had to write one myself. Also, I have learnt lot of other things of LaTeX - I am still a beginner when it comes to it.
I "stole" all your .tex files to look at later which was not troublesome but time taking. For other visitors you could have a zipped file with all .tex .bib .pdf files, that would be appreciated by many I guess!

Great Stuff Andy - has given me exactly the information I required to make my document, without any of the fluff that clouds the mind.

Cheers,

Mark

Your tutorials have been priceless! I have been able to start from scratch and produce some very technical stuff using the information you give. It's very helpful.

That said, there is one comment I would make, or perhaps it is a question. I have not had luck using subscripts in the {tabular} environment (making matrices). I can use them in arrays. I am not sure about the bmatrix that J.F. Vasconcelos wrote you about.

Thanks!

Finally found what I was looking for! Thanx. And btw, it worked like a charm.

One minor point: the link in the senctence "It should be installed with the Latex distribution (otherwise, you can download it)" does no longer work.

Thank you for your time and effort. This is a very good tutorial.

andy i am postgtraduate student with 1 month rmaining to submit my thesis.
perviously i has been using MS word and i and i was a bit nervous to use latex.
With your excellent tutorial i got myself acquainted with latex with so much ease.
i have decided to swith over to latex even though that means rewriting some eralier work in latex from scratch

Hi, thanks for your tutorial. I'm now ready to write my thesis using LaTeX (slowly but surely) hopefully. But there is one thing missing that I need you to help me with..TABLE OF CONTENT. Many thanks.

I've been swearing at my word processor and putting off writing up my work for a few months as it's just not offering the flexibility I wanted. A friend suggested I try a different approach -- all very well, but LaTex is not exactly easy for non-computing people to fathom -- until I found your tutorial and now it makes sense. And will make my work so much easier. Thank you so much for providing a simple, clear introduction that actually does begin at the beginning.

I really like your tutorial! However, I keep running into a problem using tables that I can't seem to solve.
You give an example with the @{\extracolsep{\fill}} command, this however does not generate a table with equally sized columns. I am wondering how this can be done. It also creates another problem, namely that you cannot use right-aligned text inside the columns anymore, due to the extra space inserted. Thank you!

Hi Andrew,
Like others I came across your site while looking for resources on LaTex. After all the mumble and jumble from other sites, these tutorials are simply the best because it was simple with examples.
I would love to have a bit more information on inserting mathematical symbols though. Or have I missed some tutorials.
Thanks for the great work.
Tuan.

Hi, Andrew,
Thanks for your great LaTeX tutorials. It is really intuitive and easy to follow. Thanks a lot.
By the way, for the spell checking in VIM, you may try "vimspell" [ http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=465 ]. IMHO, it is much better than the "SpellChecker". :)

Good luck,
Joseph

MY organisation requires that I create paragraphs justified like MS Word (i.e. so words don't break across lines). Is there a way to do this in LaTex?

For MS-Word style paragraphs (no indent and a linespace between), use the 'parskip ' package.

Great Help and very easy to understand.
I searched for a lil' bit for mathmatical formulas for TeX/LaTeX and so far your site has been the most helpful.

Thanks "Skeeter"

cheer for you site - it is FLIPPING MAZING!

how do i implement bookmarks in latex.

i know it is summert to do with \hyperref package.

help!

hello ther.

my englesh is not good too.

you tell me please how i write my text in middle of code using verbatim command

you i give thanks
Henk Peterson

i wish to make clearer my request of you.

i want normal text in middle of my code.

it is like what you englesh people call the 'vice-versa' of the \verb|code| command.

Henk Peterson

If you could include "Preparing Presentations with LaTeX" section, this could nearly be a complete introductory tutorial.

Regards

Thank you very much for the great BibTeX tutorial! It is very readable, and contains exactly the information I needed to finish my assignment.

Great site!

I am eager to see the advanced tutorial for tables as I still have some trouble there aligning vertically in complicated tables with the tabular environment.....

But really great! Thanks,

Stefan

Fantastic work. Thanks very much. I was about to hit the books to work out tables but your tutorial was just the quick and easy intro I was looking for. Looking forward to your 2nd tables tutorial and also others on differing bibliography styles with bibtex (eg harvard)

cheers
Andrew