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CS 6104: Computational Biology Fall Semester, 2006 Books and Links on LaTeX LaTeX Books Guide to LaTeX (Fourth Edition). Helmut Kopka, Patrick W. Daly. 2003. This is the LaTeX book I use the most. I have copies of the third edition in my office and at home. LaTeX: A Document Preparation System (Second Edition) Leslie Lamport. 1994. This is the original book on LaTeX from the author of LaTeX. It is definitely dated. The LaTeX Companion (Second Edition). Frank Mittelbach, Michel Goossens, Johannes Braams, David Carlisle, Chris Rowley. 2004. This is a good book to help you make the most out of LaTeX, especially packages. Useful LaTeX links Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN) TeX is the assembly language under LaTeX. At CTAN, you can find free distributions of both TeX and LaTeX for a variety of platforms. Most Linux distributions that use some kind of package or module installer have a teTeX package available. TeX User's Group (TUG) proTeXt — a TeX distribution for Windows LaTeX: from quick and dirty to style and finesse Introductory materials and links to other resources. The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX LyX: The Document Processor A cross-platform document processing system that can be used as a graphical front end to LaTeX. Current time at Virginia Tech is 2:46 AM UTC May 20, 2026.