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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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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

Setting labels and references

To be able to refer to a certain point, we have to mark it with a label. The name of that label will serve us afterward for referencing.

We will now typeset a list of the most used packages for papers, according to a survey on https://latex.org. Through the \label command, we will mark items that we can later refer to with the \ref command, as shown here:

  1. Create a new book document:
    \documentclass{book}
    \begin{document}
  2. Start a chapter and a section, and place a label for this section:
    \chapter{Statistics}
    \section{Most used packages by LaTeX.org users}
    \label{sec:packages}
  3. Continue with some text, including a footnote:
    The Top Five packages, used by LaTeX.org
    members\footnote{according to the 2021 survey on
    LaTeX.org\label{fn:project}}:
  4. Write an enumerated list and put a label on a few items for referring to them:
    \begin{enumerate}
      \item graphicx\label{item:graphicx}
      \item babel
      \item amsmath\label...
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