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LaTeX Beginner's Guide
LaTeX Beginner's Guide

LaTeX Beginner's Guide: When there’s 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’s guide, packed with examples and explanations.

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Key benefits

  • Use LaTeX's powerful features to produce professionally designed texts
  • Install LaTeX; download, set up, and use additional styles, templates, and tools
  • Typeset math formulas and scientific expressions to the highest standards
  • Include graphics and work with figures and tables
  • Benefit from professional fonts and modern PDF features

Description

LaTeX is high-quality Open Source typesetting software that produces professional prints and PDF files. However, as LaTeX is a powerful and complex tool, getting started can be intimidating. There is no official support and certain aspects such as layout modifications can seem rather complicated. It may seem more straightforward to use Word or other WYSIWG programs, but once you've become acquainted, LaTeX's capabilities far outweigh any initial difficulties. This book guides you through these challenges and makes beginning with LaTeX easy. If you are writing Mathematical, Scientific, or Business papers, or have a thesis to write, then this is the perfect book for you. LaTeX Beginner's Guide offers you a practical introduction to LaTeX with plenty of step-by-step examples. Beginning with the installation and basic usage, you will learn to typeset documents containing tables, figures, formulas, and common book elements like bibliographies, glossaries, and indexes and go on to managing complex documents and using modern PDF features. It's easy to use LaTeX, when you have LaTeX Beginner's Guide to hand. This practical book will guide you through the essential steps of LaTeX, from installing LaTeX, formatting, and justification to page design. Right from the beginning, you will learn to use macros and styles to maintain a consistent document structure while saving typing work. You will learn to fine-tune text and page layout, create professional looking tables as well as include figures and write complex mathematical formulas. You will see how to generate bibliographies and indexes with ease. Finally you will learn how to manage complex documents and how to benefit from modern PDF features. Detailed information about online resources like software archives, web forums, and online compilers completes this introductory guide. It's easy to use LaTeX, when you have LaTeX Beginner's Guide to hand.

Who is this book for?

If you are about to write mathematical or scientific papers, seminar handouts, or even plan to write a thesis, then this book offers you a fast-paced and practical introduction. Particularly during studying in school and university you will benefit much, as a mathematician or physicist as well as an engineer or a humanist. Everybody with high expectations who plans to write a paper or a book will be delighted by this stable software.

What you will learn

  • Install LaTeX and use the TeXworks editor to compile documents
  • Design the page layout; create dynamic headers and footers
  • Fine-tune appearances and the space of words, symbols, and lines
  • Apply intelligent justification and customized hyphenation to achieve fine text design
  • Typeset professional-looking tables and create bulleted and enumerated lists
  • Write sophisticated math formulas, from in-text expressions to complex multi-line equations with various alignments
  • Cross-reference objects such as figures, tables, and equations
  • Load fonts and vary their shape and style; choose between thousands of LaTeX symbols from specialized fonts
  • Use macros to save time and effort; load packages to extend LaTeX s capabilities
  • Generate an index, cite books, and create bibliographies
  • Use external pictures, color, PDF bookmarks, and hyperlinks
  • Structure and manage large documents by splitting the input
  • Manage large documents containing lists, index, and bibliography

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Table of Contents

13 Chapters
Getting Started with LaTeX Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Formatting Words, Lines, and Paragraphs Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Formatting Words, Lines, and Paragraphs
Understanding logical formatting
Time for action – titling your document
How LaTeX reads your input
Time for action – trying out the effect of spaces, line breaks, and empty lines
Time for action – writing special characters in our text
Formatting text – fonts, shapes, and styles
Time for action – tuning the font shape
Time for action – switching to sans-serif and to typewriter fonts
Time for action – switching the font family
Time for action – exploring grouping by braces
Time for action – exploring font sizes
Time for action – using an environment to adjust the font size
Saving time and effort – creating your own commands
Time for action – creating our first command using it as anabbreviation
Time for action – adding intelligent spacing to command output
Time for action – creating a macro for formatting keywords
Time for action – marking keywords with optional formatting
Using boxes to limit the width of paragraphs
Time for action – creating a narrow text column
Time for action – using the minipage environment
Breaking lines and paragraphs
Time for action – stating division points for words
Time for action – using microtype
Time for action – using line breaks
Exploring the fine details
Time for action – exploring ligatures
Time for action – using differently spaced dots
Time for action – comparing dots to ellipsis
Time for action – experimenting with accents
Time for action – using accents directly
Turning off full justification
Time for action – justifying a paragraph to the left
Time for action – centering a title
Time for action – centering verses
Displaying quotes
Time for action – quoting a scientist
Time for action – quoting TeX's benefits
Time for action – spacing between paragraphs instead of indentation
Summary
Designing Pages Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Creating Lists Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Creating Tables and Inserting Pictures Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Cross-Referencing Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Listing Content and References Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Typing Math Formulas Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Using Fonts Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Developing Large Documents Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Enhancing Your Documents Further Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Troubleshooting Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Using Online Resources Chevron down icon Chevron up icon

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Richard Catlin Sep 29, 2013
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After a couple of hours, I was using TexWorks and creating a PDF book with TOC and index. Just what I was looking for.
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Very happy with this product!
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sshahraz Dec 09, 2012
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I looked at any single review of the offered similar titles in Amazon and decided to purchase this one. I am happy. Here are my reflections:1. Great size, so a serious reader can read and practice it in less than a week and become a working LaTexer!2. The chapters are incremental3. To the extent I practiced it the examples are all correct and working4. Full of examples that can solve the problemsAre there LaTex problems that have not been addressed by this book? Of course. There are so many subtle ones that one needs to search internet to get a good handle on them.I recommend the book to all beginners.
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Stuart Smith Aug 12, 2020
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This is a great book to delve into detail.
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luminos717 Apr 04, 2015
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Excellent supplementary guide to the LaTex User Manual, which you should print off and get bound.
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