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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)

Lists of frequently asked questions

Now you know where to ask for help. However, during the long existence of online LaTeX communities, the probability that another user encountered the same problem as you is very high. There's a bunch of questions that appear again and again. If you post such a question, the community member might point you to a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) page. This refers to a list of answers to these FAQs. The following websites host famous collections:

  • TeX FAQ: https://texfaq.org is an FAQ site maintained by the UK TeX Users' Group. It contains several hundred frequently asked questions and well-thought-out answers. They are sorted by topic, and that list is still growing and being continuously being improved.
  • Visual LaTeX FAQ: https://ctan.org/pkg/visualfaq is a very different approach. The Visual FAQ is a PDF document containing hundreds of textual and graphic elements such as tables, figures, lists, footnotes, and math formulas....