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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

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801078658

Length 354 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Tools

LaTeX

Concepts

Document Preparation

Author (1):

Stefan Kottwitz

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

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

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Technical requirements

You can use a local LaTeX installation, or you can compile the example code online at https://latexguide.org/chapter-09.

The code is available on GitHub: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/LaTeX-Beginner-s-Guide-2nd-Edition-/tree/main/Chapter_09_-_Writing_Math_Formulas.

In this chapter, we will use the following packages: amsmath, amssymb, geometry, latexsym, and upgreek.

Furthermore, we will briefly discuss these packages: amsthm, dsfont, graphicx, mathtools, ntheorem, siunitx, xits, and zapfino.

You can find further code examples in Chapter 10, Advanced Mathematics of LaTeX Cookbook with compilable code on that book's website at https://latex-cookbook.net/chapter-10.

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Authors (1)

Stefan Kottwitz

Stefan Kottwitz

Stefan Kottwitz studied mathematics in Jena and Hamburg. He works as a network and IT security engineer both for Lufthansa Industry Solutions and for Eurowings Aviation. For many years, he has been providing LaTeX support on online forums. He maintains the web forums LaTeX and goLaTeX and the Q&A sites TeXwelt and TeXnique. He runs the TeX graphics gallery sites TeXample, TikZ, and PGFplots, the TeXlive online compiler, the TeXdoc service, and the CTAN software mirror. He is a moderator of the TeX Stack Exchange site and matheplanet. He publishes ideas and news from the TeX world on his blogs LaTeX and TeX. Before this book, he authored the first edition of LaTeX Beginner's Guide in 2011, and LaTeX Cookbook in 2015, both published by Packt.

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