La Te X Beginner's Guide

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Cover
Copyright
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: Getting Started with LaTeX
- What is LaTeX?
- Installing LaTeX
- Time for action—installing TeX Live using the net
- installer wizard
- Time for action – installing TeX Live offline
  - Installation on other operating systems
- Creating our first document
- Time for action – writing our first document with TeXworks
- Summary
Chapter 2: Formatting Words, Lines, and Paragraphs
- Understanding logical formatting
- Time for action – titling your document
  - Exploring the document structure
  - Understanding LaTeX commands
- How LaTeX reads your input
- Time for action – trying out the effect of spaces, line
- breaks, and empty lines
  - Commenting your source text
  - Printing out special symbols
- Time for action – writing special characters in our text
- Formatting text—fonts, shapes, and styles
- Time for action – tuning the font shape
  - Choosing the font family
- Time for action – switching to sans-serif and to typewriter fonts
  - Switching fonts
- Time for action – switching the font family
  - Summarizing font commands and declarations
  - Delimiting the effect of commands
- Time for action – exploring grouping by braces
- Time for action – exploring font sizes
  - Using environments
- 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 an
- abbreviation
  - Gentle spacing after commands
- Time for action – adding intelligent spacing to command output
  - Creating more universal commands—using arguments
- Time for action – creating a macro for formatting keywords
  - Using optional arguments
- Time for action – marking keywords with optional formatting
- Using boxes to limit the width of paragraphs
- Time for action – creating a narrow text column
  - Common paragraph boxes
  - Boxes containing more text
- Time for action – using the minipage environment
  - Understanding environments
- Breaking lines and paragraphs
  - Improving hyphenation
- Time for action – stating division points for words
  - Improving the justification further
- Time for action – using microtype
  - Breaking lines manually
- Time for action – using line breaks
  - Preventing linebreaks
  - Managing line breaks wisely
- Exploring the fine details
- Time for action – exploring ligatures
  - Understanding ligatures
  - Choosing the right dash
  - Setting dots
- Time for action – using differently spaced dots
- Time for action – comparing dots to ellipsis
  - Setting accents
- Time for action – experimenting with accents
  - Using special characters directly in the editor
- Time for action – using accents directly
- Turning off full justification
- Time for action – justifying a paragraph to the left
  - Creating ragged-left text
- Time for action – centering a title
  - Using environments for justification
- Time for action – centering verses
- Displaying quotes
- Time for action – quoting a scientist
  - Quoting longer text
- Time for action – quoting TeX's benefits
- Time for action – spacing between paragraphs instead of
- indentation
- Summary
Chapter 3: Designing Pages
- Defining the overall layout
- Time for action – writing a book with chapters
  - Reviewing LaTeX's default page layout
  - Defining the margins yourself
- Time for action – specifying margins
  - Using the geometry package
  - Obtaining package documentation
- Time for action – finding the geometry package manual
  - Changing the line spacing
- Time for action – increasing line spacing
- Using class options to configure the document style
- Time for action – creating a two-column landscape document
- Creating a table of contents
- Time for action – adding a table of contents
  - Sectioning and the contents
- Time for action – shortening the table of content entries
- Designing headers and footers
- Time for action – customizing headers with the
- fancyhdr package
  - Understanding page styles
  - Customizing header and footer
  - Using decorative lines in header or footer
  - Changing LaTeX's header marks
- Breaking pages
- Time for action – inserting page breaks
- Enlarging a page
- Time for action – sparing an almost empty page
- Using footnotes
- Time for action – using footnotes in text and in headings
  - Modifying the dividing line
- Time for action –redefining the footnote line
  - Using packages to expand footnote styles
- Summary
Chapter 4: Creating Lists
- Building a bulleted list
- Time for action – listing LaTeX packages
  - Nesting lists
- Time for action – listing packages by topic
- Creating a numbered list
- Time for action – writing a step-by-step tutorial
- Customizing lists
  - Saving space with compact lists
- Time for action – shrinking our tutorial
  - Choosing bullets and numbering format
- Time for action – modifying lists using enumitem
  - Suspending and continuing lists
- Producing a definition list
- Time for action – explaining capabilities of packages
- Summary
Chapter 5: Creating Tables and Inserting Pictures
- Writing in columns
- Time for action – lining up information using the tabbing
- environment
- Time for action – lining up font commands
- Typesetting tables
- Time for action – building a table of font family commands
- Time for action – adding nicer horizontal lines with the
- booktabs package
  - Spanning entries over multiple columns
- Time for action – merging cells
  - Inserting code column-wise
- Time for action – using the array package
  - Spanning entries over multiple rows
- Time for action – merging cells using the multirow package
  - Adding captions to tables
- Time for action – adding a caption to our font table
- Inserting pictures
- Time for action – including a picture
- Managing floating environments
- Time for action – letting a figure float
- Time for action – embedding a picture within text
  - Breaking figures and tables into pieces
- Summary
Chapter 6: Cross-Referencing
- Setting labels and referencing
- Time for action –referencing items of a top list
- Producing intelligent page references
- Time for action – introducing variable references
- Time for action – referring cleverly
  - Combing cleveref and varioref
  - Referring to labels in other documents
- Summary
Chapter 7: Listing Content and References
- Customizing the table of contents
- Time for action – refining an extensive table of contents
- Creating and customizing lists of figures
- Time for action – creating a list of diagrams
- Creating a list of tables
- Using packages for customization
- Generating an index
- Time for action – marking words and building the index
- Creating a bibliography
- Time for action – citing texts and listing the references
  - Using the standard bibliography environment
  - Using bibliography databases with BibTeX
- Time for action – creating and using a BibTeX database
- Changing the headings
- Summary
Chapter 8: Typing Math Formulas
- Writing basic formulas
- Time for action – discussing quadratic equations and roots
- Customizing displayed formulas
- Time for action – typesetting multi-line formulas
- Fine-tuning formulas
- Building math structures
- Stacking expressions
- Writing theorems and definitions
- Summary
Chapter 9: Using Fonts
- Preparing the encoding
- Time for action – directly using special characters
- Installing additional fonts
- Choosing the main font
- Time for action – comparing Computer Modern to Latin Modern
- Exploring the world of LaTeX fonts
- Summary
Chapter 10: Developing Large Documents
- Splitting the input
- Time for action – swapping out preamble and chapter contents
- Creating front and back matter
- Time for action – adding a dedication and an appendix
- Designing a title page
- Time for action – creating a title page
- Working with templates
- Time for action – starting with a template
- Summary
Chapter 11: Enhancing Your Documents Further
- Using hyperlinks and bookmarks
- Time for action – adding hyperlinks
- Time for action – customizing the hyperlink appearance
- Time for action – editing PDF metadata
  - Creating hyperlinks manually
  - Creating bookmarks manually
    - Math formulas and special symbols in bookmarks
- Benefitting from other packages
- Time for action – visiting the TeX Catalogue Online
- Time for action – installing a LaTeX package
- Designing headings
- Time for action – designing chapter and section headings
- Coloring your document
- Summary
Chapter 12: Troubleshooting
- Understanding and fixing errors
- Time for action – interpreting and fixing an error
- Handling warnings
- Time for action – emphasizing on a sans-serif font
- Avoiding obsolete classes and packages
- General troubleshooting
- Summary
Chapter 13: Using Online Resources
- Web forums, discussion boards, and Q&A sites
  - Usenet groups
    - comp.text.tex
    - Newsgroups in other languages
  - Web forums
    - LaTeX-Community.org
    - TeX and LaTeX on Stack Exchange
- Time for action – asking a question online
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Mailing lists
- TeX user group sites
- Homepages of LaTeX software and editors
  - LaTeX distributions
  - LaTeX editors
- LaTeX archives and catalogs
- Friends of LaTeX
- LaTeX blogs
- Summary
Appendix: Pop Quiz Answers
- Chapter 2: Formatting Words, Lines, and Paragraphs
  - Commands
  - Lines and paragraphs
- Chapter 3: Designing Pages
- Chapter 4: Creating Lists
- Chapter 5: Creating Tables and Inserting Pictures
  - Tables
  - Pictures and floats
- Chapter 6: Cross-Referencing
- Chapter 7: Listing Content and References
- Chapter 8: Typing Math Formulas
- Chapter 9: Using Fonts
- Chapter 10: Developing Large Documents
- Chapter 11: Enhancing Your Documents Further
- Chapter 12: Troubleshooting
- Chapter 13: Using Online Resources
Index

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