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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)

LaTeX blogs

Are you interested in LaTeX news and expert opinions? Then LaTeX blogs may supply you with current LaTeX information:

  • https://texblog.net is my personal blog. Here, I write LaTeX-related news, offer tips and tricks, and provide a structured link collection sorted by subject.
  • https://www.texdev.net is written by Joseph Wright, a member of the LaTeX project and author of various LaTeX tools.
  • https://tex-talk.net/ is a LaTeX blog with an interesting section full of interviews with LaTeX power users and developers.
  • https://latex.net is mainly an article database with know-how accumulated over many years, but it also provides news posts like a blog.
  • http://texample.net/community is a blog aggregator that summarizes about 30 TeX and LaTeX-related blogs and will keep you updated.
  • https://planet.dante.de is a DANTE-hosted blog aggregator that focuses on German LaTeX related blogs but includes international blogs.

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