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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

Installing additional fonts


TeX distributions usually install a lot of fonts. A package manager allows the installation of further fonts, like mpm with MiKTeX or tlmgr with TeX Live.

TeX Live includes only freely licensed fonts. Non-free fonts may be installed using a separate program. It's called getnonfreefonts. If it's not already installed with your version of TeX Live, you can download it from http://www.tug.org/fonts/getnonfreefonts/.

getnonfreefonts –l

This command lists all additionally available non-free fonts. If you wish to install a font, give its name as the argument or just type the following to install all available fonts:

getnonfreefonts –a

Type the following to get a brief documentation:

getnonfreefonts

getnonfreefonts would install the fonts in your TeX home directory. To make the fonts available for the complete local system, use getnonfreefonts-sys instead.

Note

Progams ending with -sys work system wide. Further examples are: updmap-sys, which updates font map files, and fmtutil...

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