exactly that crisp constipated enterprise-ready look that I was :) tutorial or HowTo. Actually, there are many tutorials. Different people find different ones work best for them. One that I found very well done is at: http://www.andy-roberts.net/misc/latex/. For the most basic sample documents, the latex distribution comes with small2e.tex and sample2e.tex. These links and more on http://tug.org/begin.html ... Is there any place where I can view daily updates to the list .. just to make sure I am set up correctly? As Will said, this list is actually pretty low-traffic. If you yearn for more, try (mailing list) http://www.tug.org/mailman/listinfo/texhax and/or (newsgroup) http://groups.google.com/group/comp.text.tex. Cheers, Karl