LaTeX Beginner's Guide La Te X Stefan Kottwitz
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- LaTeX
- Credits
- About the Author
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- 1. Getting Started with LaTeX
- 2. 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
- 3. Designing Pages
- Defining the overall layout
- Time for action – writing a book with chapters
- Time for action – specifying margins
- Time for action – finding the geometry package manual
- 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
- Time for action – shortening the table of content entries
- Designing headers and footers
- Time for action – customizing headers with the fancyhdr package
- 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
- Time for action – redefining the footnote line
- Summary
- 4. Creating Lists
- Building a bulleted list
- Time for action – listing LaTeX packages
- Time for action – listing packages by topic
- Creating a numbered list
- Time for action – writing a step-by-step tutorial
- Customizing lists
- Time for action – shrinking our tutorial
- Time for action – modifying lists using enumitem
- Producing a definition list
- Time for action – explaining capabilities of packages
- Summary
- 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
- Time for action – merging cells
- Time for action – using the array package
- Time for action – merging cells using the multirow package
- 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
- Summary
- 6. Cross-Referencing
- 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
- Time for action – creating and using a BibTeX database
- Changing the headings
- Summary
- 8. Typing Math Formulas
- 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
- 10. Developing Large Documents
- 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
- 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
- 12. Troubleshooting
- 13. Using Online Resources
- A. Pop Quiz Answers
- Chapter 2: Formatting Words, Lines, and Paragraphs
- Chapter 3: Designing Pages
- Chapter 4: Creating Lists
- Chapter 5: Creating Tables and Inserting Pictures
- 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
- Index