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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)

TeX user group sites

TeX user groups are organizations for people interested in TeX and LaTeX. They provide support for their members but also for TeX and LaTeX users in general. Let's visit a few.

The TeX Users Group

The TeX Users Group (TUG) is a not-for-profit organization with a very long history. Their website is at https://tug.org. Founded in 1980, the TUG always had a significant influence on the development and popularity of TeX. The TUG home page is a portal to the TeX world with links to support, documentation, and software. It hosts an extensive collection of TeX-related internet resources at https://tug.org/interest.html. An index and a substantial number of links show you the way to helpful material on the internet.

It publishes a journal that appears three times a year, and it holds yearly international conferences. It also hosts the LaTeX Font Catalogue at https://tug.org/FontCatalogue, which lists nearly all fonts available for use with LaTeX. About a...