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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

Websites for LaTeX software and editors

Like most software manufacturers and distributors, free and open-source software projects offer information on their home pages.

LaTeX distributions

Today, there are two big LaTeX distributions, both very modern and comprehensive, plus some descendants:

  • TeX Live: https://tug.org/texlive is a cross-platform LaTeX software collection. It runs on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and other Unix systems.
  • MiKTeX: https://miktex.org is a very user-friendly and popular LaTeX distribution specifically for the Windows operating system. It now supports Linux and other Unix systems as well.
  • proTeXt: https://tug.org/protext is a MiKTeX-based distribution for Windows that primarily focuses on easy installation.
  • MacTeX: https://tug.org/mactex is derived from TeX Live and has been explicitly customized for Mac OS X.

Most Linux versions provide a customized version of TeX Live in their repositories.

LaTeX editors

There are many...

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