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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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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 – creating and using a BibTeX database


We shall create a separate database file containing the references of our previous example. We will modify our example to use that database. To make this database usable, we have to call the external program BibTeX :

  1. Create a new document. Begin with writing the entry for the TeXbook:

    @book{DK86,
    author = "D.E. Knuth",
    title = "The {\TeX}book",
    publisher = "Addison Wesley",
    year = 1986
    }
  2. For the next entry, that is, the article, we will specify even more fields:

    @article{DK89,
    author = "D.E. Knuth",
    title = "Typesetting Concrete Mathematics",
    journal = "TUGboat",
    volume = 10,
    number = 1,
    pages = "31--36",
    month = apr,
    year = 1989
    }
  3. Save the file and give it the name tex.bib. Open our example tex document and modify it as follows:

    \documentclass{article}
    \begin{document}
    \section*{Recommended texts}
    To study \TeX\ in depth, see \cite{DK86}. For writing math texts, see \cite{DK89}.
    \bibliographystyle{alpha}
    \bibliography{tex}
    \end{document}
  4. Typeset...

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