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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.
0321173856B10162003
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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.
0321173856B10162003
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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.
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.
This is the only book I have bought to get the introduction. It is a good introduction. Especially useful is the list of error messages.
The problem for a newbie arises when you try to write a document on your own, you require very specific information about everything and there can be only so much information in a book. As a newbie you will definitely benefit from joining the LaTex community forum and looking at online LaTex wikibooks.
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