## With Safari, you learn the way you learn best. Get unlimited access to videos, live online training, learning paths, books, tutorials, and more.

No credit card required

## Book Description

Create high-quality and professional-looking texts, articles, and books for Business and Science using LaTeX

• Use LaTeX's powerful features to produce professionally designed texts

• Typeset math formulas and scientific expressions to the highest standards

• Include graphics and work with figures and tables

• Benefit from professional fonts and modern PDF features

In Detail

LaTeX is high-quality Open Source typesetting software that produces professional prints and PDF files. However, as LaTeX is a powerful and complex tool, getting started can be intimidating. There is no official support and certain aspects such as layout modifications can seem rather complicated. It may seem more straightforward to use Word or other WYSIWG programs, but once you've become acquainted, LaTeX's capabilities far outweigh any initial difficulties. This book guides you through these challenges and makes beginning with LaTeX easy. If you are writing Mathematical, Scientific, or Business papers, or have a thesis to write, then this is the perfect book for you.

LaTeX Beginner's Guide offers you a practical introduction to LaTeX with plenty of step-by-step examples. Beginning with the installation and basic usage, you will learn to typeset documents containing tables, figures, formulas, and common book elements like bibliographies, glossaries, and indexes and go on to managing complex documents and using modern PDF features. It's easy to use LaTeX, when you have LaTeX Beginner's Guide to hand.

This practical book will guide you through the essential steps of LaTeX, from installing LaTeX, formatting, and justification to page design. Right from the beginning, you will learn to use macros and styles to maintain a consistent document structure while saving typing work. You will learn to fine-tune text and page layout, create professional looking tables as well as include figures and write complex mathematical formulas. You will see how to generate bibliographies and indexes with ease. Finally you will learn how to manage complex documents and how to benefit from modern PDF features. Detailed information about online resources like software archives, web forums, and online compilers completes this introductory guide. It's easy to use LaTeX, when you have LaTeX Beginner's Guide to hand.

Create professional-looking texts, articles, and books for Business and Science

1. LaTeX
2. LaTeX
3. Credits
6. www.PacktPub.com
1. Support files, eBooks, discount offers, and more
7. Preface
1. What this book covers
2. What you need for this book
3. Who this book is for
4. Conventions
5. Time for action - heading
7. Customer support
8. 1. Getting Started with LaTeX
1. What is LaTeX?
2. Installing LaTeX
3. Time for action – installing TeX Live using the net installer wizard
4. Time for action – installing TeX Live offline
5. Creating our first document
6. Time for action – writing our first document with TeXworks
7. Summary
9. 2. Formatting Words, Lines, and Paragraphs
1. Understanding logical formatting
2. Time for action – titling your document
4. Time for action – trying out the effect of spaces, line breaks, and empty lines
5. Time for action – writing special characters in our text
6. Formatting text – fonts, shapes, and styles
7. Time for action – tuning the font shape
8. Time for action – switching to sans-serif and to typewriter fonts
9. Time for action – switching the font family
10. Time for action – exploring grouping by braces
11. Time for action – exploring font sizes
12. Time for action – using an environment to adjust the font size
13. Saving time and effort – creating your own commands
14. Time for action – creating our first command using it as anabbreviation
15. Time for action – adding intelligent spacing to command output
16. Time for action – creating a macro for formatting keywords
17. Time for action – marking keywords with optional formatting
18. Using boxes to limit the width of paragraphs
19. Time for action – creating a narrow text column
20. Time for action – using the minipage environment
21. Breaking lines and paragraphs
22. Time for action – stating division points for words
23. Time for action – using microtype
24. Time for action – using line breaks
25. Exploring the fine details
26. Time for action – exploring ligatures
27. Time for action – using differently spaced dots
28. Time for action – comparing dots to ellipsis
29. Time for action – experimenting with accents
30. Time for action – using accents directly
31. Turning off full justification
32. Time for action – justifying a paragraph to the left
33. Time for action – centering a title
34. Time for action – centering verses
35. Displaying quotes
36. Time for action – quoting a scientist
37. Time for action – quoting TeX's benefits
38. Time for action – spacing between paragraphs instead of indentation
39. Summary
10. 3. Designing Pages
1. Defining the overall layout
2. Time for action – writing a book with chapters
3. Time for action – specifying margins
1. What just happened?
2. Using the geometry package
3. Obtaining package documentation
4. Time for action – finding the geometry package manual
5. Time for action – increasing line spacing
6. Using class options to configure the document style
7. Time for action – creating a two-column landscape document
10. Time for action – shortening the table of content entries
12. Time for action – customizing headers with the fancyhdr package
13. Breaking pages
14. Time for action – inserting page breaks
15. Enlarging a page
16. Time for action – sparing an almost empty page
17. Using footnotes
18. Time for action – using footnotes in text and in headings
19. Time for action – redefining the footnote line
20. Summary
11. 4. Creating Lists
1. Building a bulleted list
2. Time for action – listing LaTeX packages
3. Time for action – listing packages by topic
4. Creating a numbered list
5. Time for action – writing a step-by-step tutorial
6. Customizing lists
7. Time for action – shrinking our tutorial
8. Time for action – modifying lists using enumitem
9. Producing a definition list
10. Time for action – explaining capabilities of packages
11. Summary
12. 5. Creating Tables and Inserting Pictures
1. Writing in columns
2. Time for action – lining up information using the tabbing environment
3. Time for action – lining up font commands
4. Typesetting tables
5. Time for action – building a table of font family commands
6. Time for action – adding nicer horizontal lines with the booktabs package
7. Time for action – merging cells
8. Time for action – using the array package
9. Time for action – merging cells using the multirow package
10. Time for action – adding a caption to our font table
11. Inserting pictures
12. Time for action – including a picture
13. Managing floating environments
14. Time for action – letting a figure float
15. Time for action – embedding a picture within text
16. Summary
13. 6. Cross-Referencing
1. Setting labels and referencing
2. Time for action – referencing items of a top list
3. Producing intelligent page references
4. Time for action – introducing variable references
5. Time for action – referring cleverly
6. Summary
14. 7. Listing Content and References
3. Creating and customizing lists of figures
4. Time for action – creating a list of diagrams
5. Creating a list of tables
6. Using packages for customization
7. Generating an index
8. Time for action – marking words and building the index
9. Creating a bibliography
10. Time for action – citing texts and listing the references
11. Time for action – creating and using a BibTeX database
13. Summary
15. 8. Typing Math Formulas
1. Writing basic formulas
2. Time for action – discussing quadratic equations and roots
3. Customizing displayed formulas
4. Time for action – typesetting multi-line formulas
5. Fine-tuning formulas
1. Using operators
2. Exploring the wealth of math symbols
3. Writing units
6. Building math structures
7. Stacking expressions
8. Writing theorems and definitions
9. Summary
16. 9. Using Fonts
1. Preparing the encoding
2. Time for action – directly using special characters
4. Choosing the main font
5. Time for action – comparing Computer Modern to Latin Modern
1. What just happened?
3. Serif fonts
4. Sans-serif fonts
5. Typewriter fonts
6. Exploring the world of LaTeX fonts
7. Summary
17. 10. Developing Large Documents
1. Splitting the input
2. Time for action – swapping out preamble and chapter contents
3. Creating front and back matter
4. Time for action – adding a dedication and an appendix
5. Designing a title page
6. Time for action – creating a title page
7. Working with templates
8. Time for action – starting with a template
9. Summary
18. 11. Enhancing Your Documents Further
3. Time for action – customizing the hyperlink appearance
4. Time for action – editing PDF metadata
1. What just happened?
3. Creating bookmarks manually
5. Benefitting from other packages
6. Time for action – visiting the TeX Catalogue Online
7. Time for action – installing a LaTeX package
9. Time for action – designing chapter and section headings
11. Summary
19. 12. Troubleshooting
1. Understanding and fixing errors
2. Time for action – interpreting and fixing an error
3. Handling warnings
4. Time for action – emphasizing on a sans-serif font
5. Avoiding obsolete classes and packages
6. General troubleshooting
7. Summary
20. 13. Using Online Resources
1. Web forums, discussion boards, and Q&A sites
1. Usenet groups
2. Web forums
2. Time for action – asking a question online
4. Mailing lists
5. TeX user group sites
6. Homepages of LaTeX software and editors
1. LaTeX distributions
2. LaTeX editors
7. LaTeX archives and catalogs
8. Friends of LaTeX
9. LaTeX blogs
10. Summary
1. Chapter 2: Formatting Words, Lines, and Paragraphs
2. Chapter 3: Designing Pages
3. Chapter 4: Creating Lists
4. Chapter 5: Creating Tables and Inserting Pictures
5. Chapter 6: Cross-Referencing
6. Chapter 7: Listing Content and References
7. Chapter 8: Typing Math Formulas
8. Chapter 9: Using Fonts
9. Chapter 10: Developing Large Documents
10. Chapter 11: Enhancing Your Documents Further
11. Chapter 12: Troubleshooting
22. Index