Name: LaTeX Beginner's Guide
Author: Stefan Kottwitz
ISBN: 9781805804567

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Preface
1 Getting Started with LaTeX
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Technical requirements
Getting the LaTeX idea
Benefits of LaTeX
Virtues of open source
Separation of form and content
Portability
Protection for your work
How to get started with LaTeX
Approaches to working with LaTeX
Installing and using LaTeX
Installing TeX Live using the net installer wizard
Installing TeX Live offline
Installing TeX Live on other operating systems
Updating TeX Live and installing new packages
Creating our first document
Checking out advanced LaTeX editors
Working with LaTeX online
What Overleaf requires and delivers
Benefits of Overleaf
Caveats of working online
Creating our first document online
Exploring Overleaf
Grammar and language feedback with Writefull
Reviewing and commenting
Accessing documentation
Summary
2 Formatting Text and Creating Macros
Using logical formatting
Creating a document with a title and heading
Exploring the document structure
Using LaTeX commands
Using LaTeX environments
Understanding how LaTeX processes your input
Printing special symbols
Modifying text fonts
Adjusting the font shape
Choosing the font family
Limiting the effect of commands
Exploring font sizes
Using color
Limiting paragraph width
Creating a narrow text box
Producing paragraph boxes
Exploring further paragraph box features
Using minipages
Breaking lines and paragraphs
Improving hyphenation
Preventing hyphenation
Improving the justification
Breaking lines manually
Exploring line-breaking options
Preventing line breaks
Changing text alignment
Creating ragged-right text
Creating ragged-left text
Centering text
Using environments for justification
Displaying quotations
Quoting longer text
Creating commands
Using macros for simple text
Improving spacing after commands
Creating flexible commands with arguments
Redefining commands
Creating environments
Using an alternative syntax
Summary
3 Designing Pages
Structuring with chapters
Adjusting page margins
Creating a two-column layout
Designing headers and footers
Understanding page styles
Customizing headers and footers
Using decorative lines in headers or footers
Changing LaTeX's header marks
Adding footnotes
Modifying the footnote line
Using packages to expand footnote styles
Handling page breaks
Enlarging a page
Changing the line spacing
Aligning the text area height
Creating a table of contents
Summary
4 Creating Lists
Building lists
Creating a bulleted list
Building a numbered list
Producing a definition list
Customizing lists
Getting compact lists
Choosing bullets and numbering format
Suspending and continuing lists
Examining the layout of lists
Summary
5 Creating Tables
Aligning text with tab stops
Creating basic tables
Drawing lines in tables
Understanding formatting arguments
Improving table appearance
Increasing the row height
Beautifying tables
Customizing line thickness and spacing
Spanning entries across multiple columns
Inserting code column-wise
Spanning content across multiple rows
Adding captions to tables
Placing captions above tables
Customizing captions
Enhancing tables with additional packages
Auto-fitting columns to the table width
Generating multi-page tables
Coloring tables
Using landscape orientation
Aligning columns at the decimal point
Dealing with narrow columns
Summary
6 Including Images
Choosing the right image format
Creating images
Producing and processing bitmap images
Editing vector graphics
Embedding images
Scaling an image
Including entire pages
Putting images behind the text
Managing floating figures
Understanding placement options
Forcing the output of figures
Limiting floating
Avoiding floating altogether
Arranging multiple images
Letting text flow around images
Summary
7 Using Cross-References
Setting labels and references
Assigning a label
Referring directly to a labeled position
Referring to a page
Using advanced referencing
Producing smart page references
Fine-tuning page references
Referring to page ranges
Using automatic reference names
Combining smart references with automatic naming
Referencing section names and captions
Referring to labels in other documents
Checking labels and references
Displaying labels
Identifying duplicate labels
Verifying references
Turning references into hyperlinks
Summary
8 Managing Contents, Indexes, and Bibliography
Customizing the table of contents
Adjusting the depth of the TOC
Shortening TOC entries
Adding TOC entries manually
Creating and customizing lists of figures
Creating a list of tables
Using packages for customization
Generating an index
Defining index entries and subentries
Specifying page ranges
Using symbols and macros in the index
Referring to other index entries
Fine-tuning page numbers
Designing the index layout
Creating a bibliography
Using the built-in bibliography environment
Using bibliography databases with BibTeX
Looking at the BibTeX entry fields
Citing internet resources
Understanding BibTeX entry types
Choosing the bibliography style
Listing references without citing
Changing the headings
Adding a glossary
Summary
9 Writing Math Formulas
Writing basic formulas
Embedding math expressions within text
Displaying formulas
Numbering equations
Adding subscripts and superscripts
Using operators
Typesetting roots
Writing fractions
Writing Greek letters
Writing script letters
Producing an ellipsis
Changing the font, style, and size
Customizing displayed formulas
Typesetting multi-line formulas
Numbering lines in multi-line formulas
Inserting text into formulas
Exploring the wealth of math symbols
Binary operation symbols
Relation symbols
Inequality relation symbols
Subset and superset symbols
Arrows
Harpoons
Symbols derived from letters
Miscellaneous symbols
Writing units
Variable-sized operators
Variable-sized delimiters
Building math structures
Creating arrays
Typesetting matrices
Writing binomial coefficients
Underlining and overlining
Setting accents
Putting a symbol above or below another one
Writing theorems and definitions
Extended math tools
Summary
10 Using Fonts
Using comprehensive font bundles
Latin Modern – a replacement for the standard font
Kp-Fonts – another extensive set of fonts
Choosing specific font families
Serif fonts
Sans-serif fonts
Typewriter fonts
Calligraphic fonts
Writing with TrueType and OpenType system fonts
Selecting the main font
Selecting multiple font families
Selecting a font locally
Summary
11 Developing Large Documents
Splitting the input
Including small pieces of code
Including bigger parts of a document
Compiling parts of a document
Creating front and back matter
Designing a title page
Working with templates
Organizing files and folders
Summary
12 Using Hyperlinks and Designing Headings
Working with hyperlinks
Adding hyperlinks
Customizing hyperlinks
Creating hyperlinks manually
Creating bookmarks
Using math formulas and special symbols in bookmarks
Designing headings
Summary
13 Creating Presentations
Getting started with the beamer class
Using overlays and incremental reveals
Pausing content
Using incremental specifications
Using shorthand
Arranging columns
Using blocks
Generating a handout
Summary
14 Troubleshooting
Understanding and fixing errors
Handling the preamble and document body
Using commands and environments
Writing math formulas
Working with files
Creating tables and arrays
Working with lists
Working with floating figures and tables
General syntax errors
Handling warnings
Justifying text
Referencing
Choosing fonts
Placing figures and tables
Customizing the document class
Avoiding obsolete classes and packages
General troubleshooting
Summary
15 Using Online Resources
Web forums, Q&A sites, and discussion boards
LaTeX.org
TeX and LaTeX on Stack Exchange
Reddit
Facebook
Forums in other languages
Usenet groups
Lists of frequently asked questions
Mailing lists
TeX user group websites
The TeX Users Group
DANTE
The LaTeX project
Other local user groups
Websites for LaTeX software and editors
LaTeX distributions
LaTeX editors
CTAN – the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network
Graphics galleries
LaTeX blogs
X, formerly Twitter
Summary
16 Exploring Technology: From Engines to AI
Looking at TeX engines
The classic TeX engine and DVI output
pdfTeX: today's workhorse
XeTeX: Unicode and system fonts
LuaTeX: extensibility and programmability
LuaMetaTeX: combining TeX, Lua, and MetaPost
Understanding TeX formats
Plain TeX
LaTeX
ConTeXt
Selecting engine and format
Using artificial intelligence
Working with AI efficiently
Asking LaTeX-related questions
Suggesting packages and alternative solutions
Generating LaTeX code
Explaining error and warning messages
Troubleshooting and debugging
Improving and polishing existing text
Brainstorming structure, titles, and section ideas
Using AI responsibly and carefully
Looking at the future of AI and LaTeX
Further reading
LaTeX Cookbook: over 100 practical and advanced LaTeX solutions
LaTeX Graphics with TikZ: drawing images
The LaTeX Companion
Summary
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