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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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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

Adding captions to tables

Especially with longer text, we would like to add captions and numbers to our tables. Numbering the tables allows easy referencing, whereas captions add information and tell the reader what the table is about. LaTeX has built-in features to achieve that.

Now it's time to complete our table. We shall list the remaining font commands. We'll use the first column to describe the category of the font commands: family, weight, shape, and so on. Then, we will add another column to show the effect of combining font commands.

To finish, we shall center the table and provide a number and a caption. To do that, we will put a table environment around our example table, use \centering inside it, and insert a \caption command at the end of the table environment. We will add more font commands and add another column at the right, containing more examples. Let's break it down into the following steps:

  1. Start with the document's article class...
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