LaTeX Resources

This short, well-written book covers the material essential for learning LATEX without any unnecessary detail. It provides examples that teach LATEX in a powerful yet abbreviated fashion, including the following crucial features: examples of widely used mathematical expressions; the creation of articles, reports, and overhead projector slides; troubleshooting tips to help you pinpoint an error; seting up a bibliography and an index; information about LATEX resources available on the Internet.

"LaTeX Beginner's Guide is a hands-on introduction quickly leading a novice user to professional-quality results. 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. Everybody with high expectations who plans to write a paper or a book will be delighted by this stable software."

LaTeX is the text-preparation system of choice for scientists and academics, and is especially useful for typesetting technical materials. This popular book shows you how to begin using LaTeX to create high-quality documents. The book also serves as a handy reference for all LaTeX users. Inside, you will find: Complete coverage of LaTeX fundamentals, including how to input text, symbols, and mathematics; how to produce lists and tables; how to include graphics and color; and how to organize and customize documents Discussion of more advanced concepts such as bibliographical databases and BIBTeX, math extensions with AMS-LaTeX, drawing, slides, and letters. Helpful appendices on installation, error messages, creating packages, using LaTeX with HTML and XML, and fonts. An extensive alphabetized listing of commands and their uses.

LaTeX is the leading text preparation system for high-quality documents, and is used extensively in the sciences and academia. The previous edition of this book has been essential reading for anyone wishing to gain a thorough understanding of LaTeX. It is the most comprehensive and authoritative guide available to traditional document layout - specialized graphics extensions and Web applications are covered in separate Companions. Much has changed in the ten years since the first edition was published. This new edition covers in depth all the major new developments, and updates coverage in all other areas. The authors, who are all core members of the LaTeX3 Project, cover not just the core of LaTex, but also all the important extensions that have been developed. This book is a perfect companion to Guide to LaTeX.

“This book contains over 100 hands-on recipes to quickly prepare LaTeX documents of various kinds to solve challenging tasks. If you already know the basics of LaTeX and you like to get fast, efficient solutions, this is the perfect book for you. If you are an advanced reader, you can use this book's example-driven format to take your skillset to the next level. Some familiarity with the basic syntax of LaTeX and how to use the editor of your choice for compiling is required. Some of the skills you can learn include choosing the right document class and customizing as needed; adding a bibliography, glossary or index; how to create many different types of colorful graphics. You can also explore the newest engines and formats. This book’s example-driven approach is sure to increase your productivity.“

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