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LaTeX Beginner's Guide

You're reading from   LaTeX Beginner's Guide When there‚Äôs a scientific or technical paper to write, the versatility of LaTeX is very attractive. But where can you learn about the software? The answer is this superb beginner‚Äôs guide, packed with examples and explanations.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2011
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781847199867
Length 336 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

LaTeX
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Getting Started with LaTeX FREE CHAPTER 2. Formatting Words, Lines, and Paragraphs 3. Designing Pages 4. Creating Lists 5. Creating Tables and Inserting Pictures 6. Cross-Referencing 7. Listing Content and References 8. Typing Math Formulas 9. Using Fonts 10. Developing Large Documents 11. Enhancing Your Documents Further 12. Troubleshooting 13. Using Online Resources Pop Quiz Answers Index

Time for action – building a table of font family commands


We shall create a table like in the previous example, but this time, we would like to make all entries in a column horizontally centered to each other. We will also add some horizontal lines to mark the border and the header of the table:

  1. Create a new document. Define a command for setting the font for the head row:

    \documentclass{article}
    \newcommand{\head}[1]{\textnormal{\textbf{#1}}}
    \begin{document}
  2. Begin a tabular environment. As a mandatory argument, provide ccc standing for three centered columns:

    \begin{tabular}{ccc}
  3. Write the table head row, write & to separate column entries, and \\ to end rows. Use \hline to insert horizontal lines:

      \hline
      \head{Command} & \head{Declaration} & \head{Output}\\
      \hline
  4. Continue with the table body and end the environment and the document. For typesetting LaTeX commands, write \verb|\command|:

      \verb|\textrm| & \verb|\rmfamily| & \rmfamily Example text\\
      \verb|\textsf...
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