Short roadmap & resources to learn to use LaTeX
Read the first two chapters of A document Preparation System by Leslie Lamport, second edition.
The first chapter is an introduction to LaTeX.
The second teaches you the basics of LaTeX.
The book suggests that once you’ve read these two chapters, you have the foundational knowledge to navigate the rest of the documentation.
Start using LaTeX.
When I need help, I got back to Lamport’s book or use another book with more examples: The Not So Short Introduction To LaTeX, which you can find there: https://tobi.oetiker.ch/lshort/lshort-a5.pdf
To search for fonts, I use The LaTeX Font Catalogue which you can find there: https://tug.org/FontCatalogue/
To learn more about a package, or understand how a package can be used, or when I imagine a package might exist, I go to CTAN’s website: https://ctan.org/. On this site, you can search for the packages by name or keywords. On the page of each package, you’ll find similar packages (sometimes the ones you need), and documentation about that package where there is all the information you need to use a package. I find using CTAN and packages’ documentation superior to Stackoverflow; oftentimes Stackoverflow’s answers are obsolete, or there is a more elegant way to do so.
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