New Members ⇒ Greetings from France

[Pat_the_grizzly]

Hi,
I'm Pat from France.
I'm a student in chemical engineering and a bit a newone to LaTeX (trying to type my informatic project report on LaTex to learn the basics). So for the moment I'm looking a bit for general guides etc. Already installed Miktex & TeXnic...

Other interests : music (e-guitar & piano) and sports (rugby!), also a hiker.

[magicmoose]

Hi Pat,

Welcome to the board, there is lots of information here and many questions answered - always search the forum when you have questions. Look through the LaTeX Resources for Beginners post, it gives you a good list of things to read to help you learn LaTeX. The two resources I uses most when learning LaTeX (and still use when I forget things) are "The (Not So) Short Introduction to Latex2e" and the "LaTeX Wikibook". Also, if you ever have a problem in LaTeX with a particular command search google for "Latex" and the command name, you will usually find something somewhere that explains it. Finally, if you are looking for some help with a particular package, go to http://www.ctan.org/pkg/[i]«package name»[/i] and read the package documentation, that will usually give you some good help if you read it carefully.

All the best,
Moose!

[Pat_the_grizzly]

Hi moose,

Thx for the advice ! (and I already got that guide, it's really helpful and clear ) I will look at your link 'resources for a beginner'.

Merry Xmas
Pat

[localghost]

To begin with small projects is the right step before approaching larger ones. magicmoose already mentioned a useful thread with a list of the basics.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Welcome, Pat!

Stefan