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LaTeX Cookbook

By : Stefan Kottwitz
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LaTeX Cookbook

By: Stefan Kottwitz

Overview of this book

LaTeX is a high-quality typesetting software and is very popular, especially among scientists. Its programming language gives you full control over every aspect of your documents, no matter how complex they are. LaTeX's huge amount of customizable templates and supporting packages cover most aspects of writing with embedded typographic expertise. With this book you will learn to leverage the capabilities of the latest document classes and explore the functionalities of the newest packages. The book starts with examples of common document types. It provides you with samples for tuning text design, using fonts, embedding images, and creating legible tables. Common document parts such as the bibliography, glossary, and index are covered, with LaTeX's modern approach.You will learn how to create excellent graphics directly within LaTeX, including diagrams and plots quickly and easily. Finally, you will discover how to use the new engines XeTeX and LuaTeX for advanced programming and calculating with LaTeX. The example-driven approach of this book is sure to increase your productivity.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
LaTeX Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Using web forums


The earliest online LaTeX support happened via Usenet and mailing lists. Today, we have Internet forums, which are very convenient to use.

Experienced users and experts gladly support LaTeX in forums. The reason for the existence of forums is not just expert chat. The majority of topics are based on users asking questions and readers answering them. Users' questions are the seed of forum life. So you could ask anything LaTeX related there and it would be very welcome. Let's see how to do this.

How to do it...

As an example, we will visit the LaTeX Community forum. It has existed since January 2008, and had about 100,000 posts at the time this book was published. I maintain this forum, and I can tell you this: we love good questions!

So let's have a walk together:

  1. With any Internet browser, visit the address http://latex-community.org. The top of the browser window will show a menu as follows:

  2. Click on FORUM in the top menu or on the left of the red banner. Alternatively, you...