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LaTeX Cookbook

By : Stefan Kottwitz
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LaTeX Cookbook

By: Stefan Kottwitz

Overview of this book

LaTeX is a high-quality typesetting software and is very popular, especially among scientists. Its programming language gives you full control over every aspect of your documents, no matter how complex they are. LaTeX's huge amount of customizable templates and supporting packages cover most aspects of writing with embedded typographic expertise. With this book you will learn to leverage the capabilities of the latest document classes and explore the functionalities of the newest packages. The book starts with examples of common document types. It provides you with samples for tuning text design, using fonts, embedding images, and creating legible tables. Common document parts such as the bibliography, glossary, and index are covered, with LaTeX's modern approach.You will learn how to create excellent graphics directly within LaTeX, including diagrams and plots quickly and easily. Finally, you will discover how to use the new engines XeTeX and LuaTeX for advanced programming and calculating with LaTeX. The example-driven approach of this book is sure to increase your productivity.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
LaTeX Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Creating a bibliography


The classic way of producing a bibliography, that is, a list of references, is using BibTeX. This is an external program for producing a bibliography from a plain text database with a chosen style, and for citing references in text.

In LaTeX Beginner's Guide, Packt Publishing, there's a tutorial for creating bibliographies using BibTeX. Refer to this guide to learn about the classic way. In our cookbook, we will use an advanced package called biblatex, which is generally considered to be the successor of BibTeX. It is a complete reimplementation of LaTeX's standard bibliographic features. It supports the BibTeX database format, but understands other formats. The biblatex package entirely uses TeX macros for formatting. BibTeX styles, by contrast, are programmed in a postfix stack language. So, for customizing styles with the biblatex package, you don't need to learn another language. It supports subdivided bibliographies. You can generate multiple bibliographies within...