LaTeX and its related issues

Templates for LaTeX for beginners:
ACM templates: http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates

LaTeX editors:
TeXnicCenter: http://www.texniccenter.org/
Texmaker: http://www.xm1math.net/texmaker/ (cross-platform)
TeXstudio: http://texstudio.sourceforge.net/ (cross-platform)

PSTricks:
PSTricks: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSTricks
LaTeXDraw: http://latexdraw.sourceforge.net/
(support automatic generation of LaTeX codes, very effective)

Tools supporting vector graphics:
Inkscape: http://www.inkscape.org
GIMP: http://www.gimp.org/

LaTeX tutorials:
http://www.stat.cmu.edu/~hseltman/LatexTips.html
http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/LaTeX/AoPS_L_About.php
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX
http://dcwww.fys.dtu.dk/~schiotz/comp/LatexTips/LatexTips.html
http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~dwilkins/LaTeXPrimer/Index.html
http://texblog.wordpress.com/: a great LaTeX site

LaTeX resources:
http://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/textprocessing/

LaTeX community:http://www.latex-community.org/

LaTeX tips (ubiquitous):

1) Quotation Marks and Dashes

Single quotation marks are produced in LaTeX using ` and '. Double quotation marks are produced by typing `` and ''. (The `undirected double quote character " produces double right quotation marks: it should never be used where left quotation marks are required.)

LaTeX allows you to produce dashes of various length, known as `hyphens', `en-dashes' and `em-dashes'. Hyphens are obtained in LaTeX by typing -, en-dashes by typing -- and em-dashes by typing ---.

One normally uses en-dashes when specifying a range of numbers. Thus for example, to specify a range of page numbers, one would type

on pages 155--219.

Dashes used for punctuating are often typeset as em-dashes, especially in older books. These are obtained by typing ---.

(Source: http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~dwilkins/LaTeXPrimer/QuotDash.html)
(to be continued)

2) LaTeX mathematical equation editor: http://www.codecogs.com/components/eqneditor/editor.php -> an interactive tool, very cool!

3) Some strategies to include graphics in LaTeX documents
http://www.tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb26-1/hoeppner.pdf

4) Using Visio to create EPS files (very helpful)
http://www.win.tue.nl/latex/visioeps.html
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/thankyou.jsp?ftpID=1500&fileID=1438 (driver of EPS files for printer in Visio)

5) Rename "Contents" by "Tables of Contents" using
\renewcommand\contentsname{Table of Contents}

6) Special characters in LaTeX:
http://www.noao.edu/noaoprop/help/symbols/

7) Spell Checking for LaTeX documents
http://www.microspell.com/cgi-bin/spellform.pl

8) Footnote with caption
http://www.latex-community.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1078

9) LaTeX tables with bar charts
http://www.keithv.com/software/barchart/

10) LaTeX mathematics equations tips: http://moser.cm.nctu.edu.tw/docs/typeset_equations.pdf

11) ... (to be added)