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LaTeX Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

By : Stefan Kottwitz
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LaTeX Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

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By: Stefan Kottwitz

Overview of this book

LaTeX is high-quality open source typesetting software that produces professional prints and PDF files. It's a powerful and complex tool with a multitude of features, so getting started can be intimidating. However, once you become comfortable with LaTeX, its capabilities far outweigh any initial challenges, and this book will help you with just that! The LaTeX Beginner's Guide will make getting started with LaTeX easy. If you are writing mathematical, scientific, or business papers, or have a thesis to write, this is the perfect book for you. With the help of fully explained examples, this book offers a practical introduction to LaTeX with plenty of step-by-step examples that will help you achieve professional-level results in no time. You'll learn to typeset documents containing tables, figures, formulas, and common book elements such as bibliographies, glossaries, and indexes, and go on to manage complex documents and use modern PDF features. You'll also get to grips with using macros and styles to maintain a consistent document structure while saving typing work. By the end of this LaTeX book, you'll have learned how to fine-tune text and page layout, create professional-looking tables, include figures, present complex mathematical formulas, manage complex documents, and benefit from modern PDF features.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Using hyperlinks and bookmarks

There's a sophisticated package called hyperref that does nearly all basic hyperlinking automatically. Let's check it out.

Adding hyperlinks

We shall load the hyperref package and inspect its effect:

  1. Open the preamble.tex file, which we used in the previous chapter. At the end, add this line:
    \usepackage{hyperref}
  2. Save this document under the same name.
  3. Open our Book of Equations from the previous chapter; we called it equations.tex.
  4. Compile the document twice without making any changes. Let's see how the document now appears; here, we can see red boxes indicating hyperlinks:

Figure 12.1 – A table of contents with hyperlinks and bookmarks

Cross-references, such as references to equation numbers, also have red boxes:

Figure 12.2 – References to equations with hyperlinks

By just loading the hyperref package, our document has significantly changed...