What you need for this book

The software that you need here is TeX Live, version 2015 or later, or MiKTeX, version 2.9 or later. It is recommendable to also install a LaTeX editor. The introduction in Chapter 1 will explain, where to get the TeX software and editors. The Chapter 12 will guide you to further Internet resources.

An important tool is texdoc. It opens manuals and further documentation for you. texdoc is contained in TeX Live. MiKTeX provides a similar tool with the same name. texdoc is called at in Command Prompt by typing texdoc keyword. For packages and bundles, the keyword is usually just the name.

All the code examples in this book can be downloaded as described later in the section Customer support. So, you don't need to type the ...

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