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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 – quoting TeX's benefits


We will quote some of the benefits of TeX and LaTeX found on a web page on CTAN.

  1. Start a new document. This time, it will be a bit longer:

    \documentclass{article}
    \usepackage{url}
    \begin{document}
    The authors of the CTAN team listed ten good reasons
    for using \TeX. Among them are:
    \begin{quotation}
        \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.
    
        \TeX\ knows typesetting. As those plain text samples
    show, \TeX's has more sophisticated typographical algorithms
    such as those for making paragraphs and for hyphenating.
    
        \TeX\ is fast. On today's machines \TeX\ is very fast.
        It is easy on memory and disk space, too. 
    
        \TeX\ is stable. It is in wide use, with a long history.
        It has been tested by millions of users, on demanding input.
        It will never eat your document. Never.
    \end{quotation}
    The original text can be found on
    \url{ http://www.ctan...
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