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LaTeX Beginner's Guide

You're reading from   LaTeX Beginner's Guide When there’s 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’s 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 – spacing between paragraphs instead of indentation


We like to avoid the paragraph indentation. Instead, we shall separate the paragraphs by some vertical space.

  1. Create copy of the previous example and reuse most of it this way:

    \documentclass{article}
    \usepackage{parskip}
    \usepackage{url}
    \begin{document}
    The authors of the CTAN team listed ten good reasons
    for using \TeX. Among them are:
    
    \TeX\ has the best output. What you end with,
    the symbols on the page, is as useable, and beautiful,
    as a non-professional can produce\ldots
    
    The original text can be found on
    \url{ http://www.ctan.org/what_is_tex.html}.
    \end{document}
  2. See the effect:

What just happened?

The highlighted line shows that we've loaded the parskip package. Its only purpose is to remove the paragraph indentation completely. At the same time, this package introduces a skip between paragraphs. But this package doesn't affect the definition of the quotation environment—you still could use the quote environment.

In order...

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