LaTeX for Complete Novices
Published on 25. September 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
292 pages
978-1-909440-00-5 (ISBN)
Description
A tutorial that covers the very basics of using the LaTeX computer typesetting system with exercises to get the reader started. Accompanying resources and solutions to the exercises are available from the book's home page at www.dickimaw-books.com/latex/novices/.
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Series
Edition
1
Language
English
Place of publication
Norwich
United Kingdom
Target group
Adult education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
1, black & white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
554 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-909440-00-5 (9781909440005)
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Person
Dr Nicola Talbot has taught LaTeX at the University of East Anglia and on UK TeX User Group (UK-TUG) training days. She has written a number of LaTeX packages available on the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN), including the popular "glossaries" and "datatool" packages.
Content
1. Introduction 1.1 Class and Package Documentation 1.2 Overview 1.3 Recommended Reading 2. Some Definitions 2.1 Source Code 2.2 Output File 2.3 DVI File 2.4 Auxiliary Files 2.5 Terminal or Command Prompt 2.6 Commands 2.7 Grouping (or Scope) 2.8 Arguments 2.8.1 Mandatory Arguments 2.8.2 Optional Arguments 2.9 Moving Arguments and Fragile Commands 2.10 Robust Commands 2.11 Short and Long Commands 2.12 Declarations 2.13 Inter-Sentence Spacing 2.14 Hyphenation 2.15 Environments 2.16 The Preamble 2.17 Lengths 2.18 Class File 2.19 TeX 2.20 Perl 3. From Source Code to Typeset Output 3.1 TeXWorks 4. Creating a Simple Document 4.2 Packages 4.2.1 Changing the Format of \today 4.3 Special Characters and Symbols 4.3.1 The inputenc Package 4.4 Lists 4.4.1 Unordered Lists 4.4.2 Ordered Lists 4.4.3 Description Environment 4.5 Fonts 4.5.1 Changing the Font Style 4.5.2 Changing the Font Size 4.5.3 Changing the Document Fonts 4.6 Aligning Material in Rows and Columns 4.6.1 Column and Row Separation 4.6.2 Spanning Columns 4.6.3 Rules 4.7 Boxes and Mini-Pages 4.7.1 Framed Boxes 5. Structuring Your Document 5.1 Author and Title Information 5.2 Abstract 5.3 Chapters, Sections, Subsections... 5.4 Creating a Table of Contents 5.5 Cross-Referencing 5.6 Creating a Bibliography 5.7 Page Styles and Page Numbering 5.8 Multi-Lingual Support: using the babel package 6. The graphicx Package 6.1 Graphical Transformations 6.2 Package Options 7. Floats 7.1 Figures 7.1.1 Side-By-Side Figures 7.2 Tables 7.2.1 Side-By-Side Tables 7.3 Sideways Floats 7.4 Sub-Floats 8. Defining Commands 8.1 Defining Commands with an Optional Argument 8.2 Redefining Commands 9. Mathematics 9.1 In-Line Mathematics 9.2 Displayed Mathematics 9.3 Multiple Lines of Displayed Maths 9.4 Mathematical Commands 9.4.1 Maths Fonts 9.4.2 Greek Letters 9.4.3 Subscripts and Superscripts 9.4.4 Functional Names 9.4.5 Fractions 9.4.6 Roots 9.4.7 Mathematical Symbols 9.4.8 Ellipses 9.4.9 Delimiters 9.4.10 Arrays 9.4.11 Vectors 9.4.12 Mathematical Spacing 10. Defining Environments 10.1 Redefining Environments 11. Counters A. Downloading and Installing Packages A.1 DTX and INS Files A.2 Refreshing the TeX Database B. Common Errors C. Need More Help? Bibliography Acronyms Summary Index GNU Free Documentation License History