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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)

Adding captions to tables

Especially with longer text, we would like to add captions and numbers to our tables. Numbering the tables allows easy referencing, whereas captions add information and tell the reader what the table is about. LaTeX has built-in features to achieve that.

Now it's time to complete our table. We shall list the remaining font commands. We'll use the first column to describe the category of the font commands: family, weight, shape, and so on. Then, we will add another column to show the effect of combining font commands.

To finish, we shall center the table and provide a number and a caption. To do that, we will put a table environment around our example table, use \centering inside it, and insert a \caption command at the end of the table environment. We will add more font commands and add another column at the right, containing more examples. Let's break it down into the following steps:

  1. Start with the document's article class...