I’ll be doing this under windows, but will be listing software that works under all operating systems.
Tutorials:
- http://www.andy-roberts.net/writing/latex
- http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/3852/latex-template-for-a-technical-reference-manual-user-guide
- http://www.ctan.org/pkg/refman
- http://www.ctan.org/pkg/memoir
- http://mirrors.rit.edu/CTAN/info/latex-samples/MemoirChapStyles/MemoirChapStyles.pdf
- http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/CTAN/macros/latex/contrib/memoir/memman.pdf
LaTex Editors
- TeXnicCenter (http://texniccenter.org) Windows based Latex editor (Wants to work with MikTex)
- Kile (http://kile.sourceforge.net) Linux based editor using KDE
- TeXShop (http://pages.uoregon.edu/koch/texshop) Mac OS X based editor
- Texmaker (http://www.xmlmath.net/texmaker) Crossplatform latex editor