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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)

Turning references into hyperlinks

PDF documents offer bookmarks and hyperlink capabilities. How about exploring that? There's an outstanding package that offers hyperlink support – the hyperref package.

Try it by loading hyperref right before cleveref. This order is essential for the references to work because cleveref detects whether hyperref has been loaded and makes the references to hyperlinks. Even without any options or commands, your document will be hyperlinked as much as possible because of the following:

  • All references become hyperlinks. Click on any of those numbers to jump to the referred table, list item, section, or page.
  • Each footnote marker is a hyperlink to the footnote text. Click it to jump there.
  • If you insert \tableofcontents, you will get a bookmark list for the documents, chapters, and sections listed in a navigation bar of your PDF reader.

hyperref can do even more for you – linking index entries to text passages...