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LaTeX Beginner's Guide

You're reading from   LaTeX Beginner's Guide Create visually appealing texts, articles, and books for business and science using LaTeX

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801078658
Length 354 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Stefan Kottwitz Stefan Kottwitz
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Getting Started with LaTeX 2. Chapter 2: Formatting Text and Creating Macros FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Designing Pages 4. Chapter 4: Creating Lists 5. Chapter 5: Including Images 6. Chapter 6: Creating Tables 7. Chapter 7: Using Cross-References 8. Chapter 8: Listing Contents and References 9. Chapter 9: Writing Math Formulas 10. Chapter 10: Using Fonts 11. Chapter 11: Developing Large Documents 12. Chapter 12: Enhancing Your Documents Further 13. Chapter 13: Troubleshooting 14. Chapter 14: Using Online Resources 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Splitting the input

Divide and conquer—this could be our motto now. We will figure out how to break down a document into several sub-documents. Thus, while we are writing, we will be able to manage a huge project consisting of many chapters in separate files.

Firstly, we will separate settings and body text by swapping out the preamble. Secondly, we will write chapters in separate files and include them afterward.

We will begin to write a detailed document regarding equations and equation systems. The result should be in the style of a thesis or a book. We can use the last example of Chapter 9, Writing Math Formulas, where we dealt with theorems concerning equations.

We will create several files, step by step:

  1. Create a new document. Inside this, load all the packages and specify the options, like we did in our preambles in the previous chapters. Use all the beneficial packages that we have already learned about:
    \usepackage[english]{babel} 
    \usepackage[T1]{fontenc...
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