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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

Creating a book with chapters

We will start to write a book. First, we shall choose a class, and use some filler text to work out the page layout. Let's see how to do it:

  1. Create a new document, and enter the following lines as our preamble:
    \documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{book}
    \usepackage[english]{babel}
    \usepackage{blindtext}
  2. Proceed with writing the document body containing a chapter heading, section and subsection headings, and some filler text:
    \begin{document}
    \chapter{Exploring the page layout}
    In this chapter we will study the layout of pages.
    \section{Some filler text}
    \blindtext
    \section{A lot more filler text}
    More dummy text will follow.
    \subsection{Plenty of filler text}
    \blindtext[10]
    \end{document}
  3. Compile it by clicking on Typeset. Look at the first page:

Figure 3.1 – An example page

We have chosen the document class book. As the name implies, this class is suitable for book-like documents. Books are commonly two-sided...

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