LATEX has its own home page on the World Wide Web, with the URL:
http://www.tex.ac.uk/CTAN/latex/This page describes LATEX and the LATEX3 project, and contains pointers to other LATEX resources, such as the user guides, the TEX Frequently Asked Questions, and the LATEX bugs database.
The electronic home of anything TEX-related is the Comprehensive TEX Archive Network (CTAN). This is a network of cooperating ftp sites, with over a gigabyte of TEX material:
ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/ ftp://ftp.shsu.edu/tex-archive/ ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/For more information, see the LATEX home page. A complete description of the new standard LATEX can be found in:
[1]##1[LATEX: A Document Preparation System] Leslie Lamport, Addison Wesley, 2nd ed, 1994. [The LATEX Companion] Goossens, Mittelbach and Samarin, Addison Wesley, 1994. This LATEX distribution comes with documentation on the new features of:
[1]##1[LATEX2e for authors]
describes the new features of LATEX documents,
in the file usrguide.tex
;
[LATEX2e for class and package writers]
describes how to produce LATEX classes and packages,
in the file clsguide.tex
;
[LATEX2e font selection]
describes the new features of LATEX fonts for
class and package writers,
in the file fntguide.tex
.
For more information on TEX and LATEX, get in touch with your local TEX Users Group, or the international TEX Users Group; information about these groups can also be found in the CTAN.