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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)

Using advanced referencing

LaTeX helps with automating all kinds of references. It's not only limited to numbering. LaTeX can even automate naming and phrasing. We will dig deeper into that here.

Producing intelligent page references

The varioref package offers a command to add on the preceding page, on the following page, or the page number to a reference, depending on the context.

We will use the varioref commands to introduce variable references, \vref, and \vpageref, to achieve enhanced reference texts:

  1. Open our current example from the Setting labels and references section. Add the varioref package to your preamble. Use the nospace package option, which ensures that varioref doesn't insert additional undesirable space before or after a reference:
    \usepackage[nospace]{varioref}
  2. Edit the content of the second chapter in our example code:
    \emph{amsmath}, on position \vref{item:amsmath}
    of the top list in section~\vref{sec:packages},
    is indispensable to...