Using web forums
The earliest online LaTeX support happened via Usenet and mailing lists. Today, we have Internet forums, which are very convenient to use.
Experienced users and experts gladly support LaTeX in forums. The reason for the existence of forums is not just expert chat. The majority of topics are based on users asking questions and readers answering them. Users' questions are the seed of forum life. So you could ask anything LaTeX related there and it would be very welcome. Let's see how to do this.
How to do it...
As an example, we will visit the LaTeX Community forum. It has existed since January 2008, and had about 100,000 posts at the time this book was published. I maintain this forum, and I can tell you this: we love good questions!
So let's have a walk together:
- With any Internet browser, visit the address http://latex-community.org. The top of the browser window will show a menu as follows:
- Click on FORUM in the top menu or on the left of the red banner. Alternatively...
