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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

Time for action – asking a question online


Is there anything you wanted to know about LaTeX? Did you encounter any serious problem you could not solve? Then post a question on http://tex.stackexchange.com/:

  1. Visit http://tex.stackexchange.com :

  2. In the upper-right corner, click on Ask Question:

  3. Fill out the Title field and type in your question, and choose some meaningful keywords for the Tags field. When you are done, click on Post Your Question. The final question will look like the following:

What just happened?

That wasn't really hard! Besides editing our question we:

  • Chose a meaningful title to get readers interested in checking out our question

  • Specified some keywords, so called tags, which are used to filter the site's contents

Stack Exchange is a network of free, community-driven Q&A sites. The TeX site, often briefly called TeX.SE, was founded in 2010 specifically for users of TeX and LaTeX.

You don't have to register to post questions and answers—you could simply start off just as we...

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