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by Helmut Kopka (Author), Patrick W. Daly (Author)

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Paperback: 624 pages
Publisher: Addison Wesley; 4 edition (11 Dec 2003)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0321173856
ISBN-13: 978-0321173850
Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 18.5 x 2.5 cm

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A completely revised edition of this accessible guide to LATEX document preparation, bringing it up to date with the latest releases and Web and PC based developments. A Guide to LATEX covers the basics as well as advanced LATEX topics and contains numerous practical examples and handy tips for avoiding problems.

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LaTeX is the text-preparation system of choice for scientists and academics, and is especially useful for typesetting technical materials. This popular book shows you how to begin using LaTeX to create high-quality documents. The book also serves as a handy reference for all LaTeX users. In this completely revised edition, the authors cover the LaTeX2e standard and offer more details, examples, exercises, tips, and tricks. They go beyond the core installation to describe the key contributed packages that have become essential to LaTeX processing.

Inside, you will find:

Complete coverage of LaTeX fundamentals, including how to input text, symbols, and mathematics; how to produce lists and tables; how to include graphics and color; and how to organize and customize documents
Discussion of more advanced concepts such as bibliographical databases and BIBTeX, math extensions with AMS-LaTeX, drawing, slides, and letters
Helpful appendices on installation, error messages, creating packages, using LaTeX with HTML and XML, and fonts
An extensive alphabetized listing of commands and their uses

New to this edition:

More emphasis on LaTeX as a markup language that separates content and form--consistent with the essence of XML
Detailed discussions of contributed packages alongside relevant standard topics
In-depth information on PDF output, including extensive coverage of how to use the hyperref package to create links, bookmarks, and active buttons

As did the three best-selling editions that preceded it, Guide to LaTeX, Fourth Edition, will prove indispensable to anyone wishing to gain the benefits of LaTeX.

The accompanying CD-ROM is part of the TeX Live set distributed by TeX Users Groups, containing a full LaTeX installation for Windows, MacOSX, and Linux, as well as many extensions, including those discussed in the book.

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very helpful indeed, up to date and well referenced, 7 April 2005

By	Mike Jones - See all my reviews

This book is ideal for any beginner in LaTeX who does not want to be thrown into the deep end, but rather wants a gentle but nevertheless detailed introduction to the programming of LaTeX documents. I found it helpful to read through the first few chapters describing the history and context of the TeX and LaTeX systems, and henceforth have simply used it as a reference guide whenever I want to insert things like tables, enumeration lists, and other document classes.

This book took me from complete beginner to allowing me to write my university project on it with ease and elegance. The appendices, in particular the reference and the list of mathematical symbols, are particularly useful.

For under �30 this book is superb.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Confused style, may be unsuitable for beginners., 23 Feb 2004

By	Mr. D. P. Beynon "Trapendo" (UK) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I am a very occasional LaTeX user, who often goes for a couple of years without needing to typeset anything. As such I need to be reminded of the basics (details of commands etc) from time to time, but also require a comprehensive reference as I tend to use a lot of maths & graphics.

At the moment I am attempting to help someone else learn how to use LaTeX.

I ordered a copy of this book after mislaying an old copy of Antoni Diller's excellent "LaTex: Line by line", and being unable to get my hands on a replacement.

The layout of the introductory chapters seems unnecessarily confused, for example I find out how to specify distances in didot points (p19), and how to insert dagger symbols (p21) before seeing any significant amount of example source with output (title page on p37).

By chapter 3 I still haven't found a complete annotated LaTeX document. All the different parts of the preamble have been covered, but with no sense of how to combine them into a coherent whole. IMHO this is a missed opportunity.

Personally I can get by with this book because I already know how to use LaTeX, but I wouldn't recommend it for beginners. I know that I am likely to be doing more hand holding than should be necessary.

If you want a clear, well thought out introduction then try to get hold of a copy of Diller's book instead. If you can't obtain a copy of that then this one is better than nothing.

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Highly recommended, 11 Feb 2004

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This is a very good book, well laid out and itself a good advertisement for the typesetting potential of LaTeX. I particularly like the quick-reference appendix, giving a list of all the most commonly used commands and cross-referenced to the parts of the main volume where they are described in more detail.

Nearly all of the needs of the average LaTeX user are, it seems to me, addressed concisely and clearly (and, as far as I can see, without the duplication which was reportedly a feature of previous editions of the book). Coverage of add-on packages is not exhaustive, nor is it meant to be, but is integrated naturally into the core language description. Relatively advanced techniques, such as producing hyper-referenced PDF documents and incorporating graphics, are also featured.

I don't have any criticisms of the authors' decision not to include any detail on how to go about producing one's LaTeX sources. One of the beauties of the whole system is its independence of any particular editing environment. If you like, you can edit your documents on a machine where LaTeX isn't even installed. I think Kopka and Daly were wise to restrict their advice on the subject to a cursory mention of a few popular editors and leave the documentation of those to their respective authors.

If I have any grumble at all, it would be that the tone is rather dry - not much humour to be had. But overall, a very satisfactory purchase.

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3.0 out of 5 stars A bit shallow
The book is nice as a basic introduction, covers a lot of ground but doesn't really help with the details that do matter. A particulary weak section is the one on slides.

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