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A Guide to Latex: Document preparation for beginners and advanced users, 3/E
Helmut Kopka, <DIV>Max-Planck-Institut fur Aeronomie<BR>Postfach 20<BR>D-37189 Kanenburg-Lindau<BR>Germany</DIV>
Patrick Daly, <DIV>Max-Planck-Institut fur Aeronomie<BR>Postfach 20<BR>D-37189 Kanenburg-Lindau<BR>Germany</DIV>

ISBN-10: 0201398257
ISBN-13: 9780201398250

Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Copyright: 1999
Format: Paper; 616 pp
Published: 01/25/1999

A completely revised edition of this accessible guide to LATEX document preparation, bringing it up to date with the latest releases and Web ad 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. It covers the latest LATEX extensions and has been completely updated to cover latest releases and upgrades.

The book explains the LATEX macro package for the TEX text formatting program, presenting a complete description for beginners, going on to more advanced and specialized features. Files for LATEX processing contain the actual text plus markup and programming command, al as ASCII text, something tat makes them portable to every computer system. The LATEX/TEX program processes these files to produce high-quality typeset results, especially for complicated mathematics.

LATEX offers the user all the features of any text processing system: automatic section formatting, numbering of sections, figures, tables and equations, table of contents, lists of figures and tables, cross-referencing to the numbers, bibliography, keyword index, colour, inclusion of illustrations. All of these are demonstrated to the reader via examples and exercises through a structure that takes him or her from the simplest beginnings to the more complicated refinements.

This product accompanies:
Kopka & Daly, Guide to LaTeX, 4/E

1. Introduction.

Text formatting.

TEX and its offspring.

What's different in LATEX 2E?

How to use this book.

Basics of a LATEX file.

2. Commands and Environments.

Command names and arguments.

Environments.

Declarations.

Lengths.

Special characters.

Fragile commands.

Exercises.

3. Document Layout and Organization.

Document class.

Page style.

Parts of the document.

Table of contents.

Fine-tuning text.

Word division.

4. Displayed Text.

Changing font.

Centering and indenting.

Lists.

Generalized lists.

Theorem-like declarations.

Tabulator stops.

Boxes.

Tables.

Printing literal text.

Footnotes and marginal notes.

Comments within text.

5. Mathematical Formulas.

Mathematical environments.

Main elements of math mode.

Mathematical symbols.

Additional elements.

Fine-tuning mathematics.

Beyond standard LATEX.

6. Illustrations.

Drawing pictures with LATEX.

The graphics packages.

Adding color.

Floating tables and figures.

7. User Customization.

Counters.

Lengths.

User-defined commands.

User-defined environments.

Some comments on user-defined structures.

8 Advanced Features.

Processing parts of a document.

Including TEX commands in LATEX.

In-text references.

MakeIndex---a keyword processor.

The New Font Selection Scheme (NFSS).

Typing special symbols directly.

Alternatives for special symbols.

Additional standard files.

The various LATEX files.

Presentation material (SLITEX).

9. Error Messages.

Basic structure of error messages.

Some sample errors.

List of LATEX error messages.

TEX error messages.

Warnings.

Search for subtle errors.

Appendices.

A. Letters.

The LATEX letter class.

A house letter style.

A model letter customization.

B. Bibliographic Databases.

The BIBTEX program.

Creating a bibliographic database.

BIBTEX extensions.

C. LATEX Programming.

Class and package files.

LATEX programming commands.

Sample packages.

Changing preprogrammed text.

Installing fonts with NFSS.

D. LATEX Extensions.

International LATEX.

LATEX and PostScript.

Further LATEX accessories.

LATEX and the World Wide Web.

Installing LATEX.

Sources for LATEX files.

E. Math Extensions with AMS-LATEX.

Obtaining the AMS packages.

Invoking AMS-LATEX.

Standard features of AMS-LATEX.

Further AMS-LATEX packages.

The AMS fonts.

F TEX Fonts.

Font metrics and bitmaps.

Computer Modern fonts.

An overview of METAFONT.

Extended character sets for TEX.

PostScript fonts.

G. Command Summary.

Brief description of the LATEX commands.

Summary tables and figures.

Invalid Plain TEX commands.

Bibliography.

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Guide to LaTeX, 4/E
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Author Bios
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Helmut Kopka was previously a scientific staff member at the Max-Planck-Institut für Aeronomie in Germany. He was involved in writing one of the first TeX drivers for HP LaserJet and subsequently introduced TeX and LaTeX into his institute, where it has become the standard text-processing system for scientific publications.

Patrick W. Daly is a scientific staff member at the Max-Planck-Institut für Aeronomie in Germany. He has written formatting styles for several scientific journals and is the author of the natbib package for flexible bibliographic citations and of the custom-bib system for customizing bibliographic styles for use with BibTeX.

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Document Preparation For Beginners And Advanced Users.

If you are a user with little or no experience of computers or text formatting and you want to master LATEX to produce documents of high quality, then this book is essential reading. Fully revised to cover the most up-to-date versions of LATEX this accessible and practical tutorial contains all of the information you will need to get up and running with LATEX, and is an essential reference tool to users at all levels.

This book will enable you to:

Master the basics of LATEX and explore more advanced topics including user-defined extensions
Get up to speed with the latest LATEX extensions for adaptations to other languages
Explore numerous practical examples and pick up handy tips for avoiding common problems
Benefit from detailed appendices including the Command Summary and Summary Tables

New to this Edition

Completely updated to cover the latest releases and upgrades of LATEX
Covers new features including graphics importation and PostScript font installation
Section on LATEX and the World Wide Web
Section on LATEX on Windows & Windows NT
Section on installations for 32 bit PC

Helmut Kopka and Patrick W. Daly are both scientific staff members at the Max-Planck-Institut für Aeronomie in Germany.

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