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LaTeX Graphics Companion, The, 2/E
ISBN-10: 0321508920
ISBN-13: 9780321508928
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Copyright: 2008
Format: Paper; 976 pp
Published: 08/02/2007
Status: Instock
List of Figures xvii
List of Tables xxi
Preface xxv
- Why LATEX, and why PostScript? xxvi
How this book is arranged xxvii
Typographic conventions xxix
Using the examples xxxi
Finding all those packages and programs xxxiii
Chapter 1: Graphics with LATEX 1
- 1.1 Graphics systems and typesetting 2
1.2 Drawing types 3
1.3 TEX's interfaces 6
1.4 Graphics languages 10
1.5 Choosing a package 21
Chapter 2: Standard LATEX Interfaces 23
- 2.1 Inclusion of graphics files 23
2.2 Manipulating graphical objects 36
2.3 Line graphics 42
Chapter 3: METAFONT and METAPOST: TEX's Mates 51
- 3.1 The META language 52
3.2 Differences between METAPOST and METAFONT 60
3.3 Running the META programs 68
3.4 Some basic METAPOST libraries 74
3.5 The METAOBJ package 80
3.6 TEX interfaces: getting the best of both worlds 120
3.7 From METAPOST and to METAPOST 137
3.8 The future of METAPOST 138
Chapter 4: METAPOST Applications 141
- 4.1 A drawing toolkit 141
4.2 Representing data with graphs 157
4.3 Diagrams 176
4.4 Geometry 189
4.5 Science and engineering applications 196
4.6 3-D extensions 207
Chapter 5: Harnessing PostScript Inside LATEX: PSTricks 213
- 5.1 The components of PSTricks 214
5.2 Setting keywords, lengths, and coordinates 217
5.3 The pspicture environment 220
5.4 The coordinate system 223
5.5 Grids 224
5.6 Lines and polygons 231
5.7 Circles, ellipses, and curves 240
5.8 Dots and symbols 249
5.9 Filling areas 53
5.10 Arrows 259
5.11 Labels 265
5.12 Boxes 269
5.13 User styles and objects 279
5.14 Coordinates 296
5.15 The PSTricks core 302
Chapter 6: The Main PSTricks Packages 313
- 6.1 pst-plot--Plotting functions and data 313
6.2 pst-node--Nodes and connections 334
6.3 pst-tree--Typesetting trees 366
6.4 pst-fill--Filling and tiling 383
6.5 pst-3d--Shadows, tilting, and three-dimensional representations 388
6.6 pst-3d plot--3-D parallel projections of functions and data 400
6.7 Short overview of other PSTricks packages 417
6.8 Summary of PSTricks commands and keywords 459
Chapter 7: The XY-pic Package 467
- 7.1 Introducing XY-pic 467
7.2 Basic constructs 469
7.3 Extensions 474
7.4 Features 478
7.5 Further examples 509
Chapter 8: Applications in Science, Technology, and Medicine 511
- 8.1 Typographical rules for scientific texts 512
8.2 Typesetting chemical formulae 518
8.3 Alignment and topology plots in bioinformatics 547
8.4 Drawing Feynman diagrams 555
8.5 Typesetting timing diagrams 572
8.6 Electronics and optics circuits 576
Chapter 9: PreparingMusic Scores 587
- 9.1 Using TEX for scores--An overview 589
9.2 Using MusiXTEX 590
9.3 abc2mtex--Easy writing of tunes 600
9.4 Preprocessors for MusiXTEX 615
9.5 The PMX preprocessor 618
9.6 M-Tx--Music fromTeXt 651
9.7 The music engraver LilyPond 661
9.8 TEXmuse--TEX and METAFONT working together 666
Chapter 10: Playing Games 667
- 10.1 Chess 668
10.2 Xiangqi--Chinese chess 687
10.3 Go 690
10.4 Backgammon 696
10.5 Card games 698
10.6 Crosswords in various forms 702
10.7 Sudokus 709
Chapter 11: The World of Color 713
- 11.1 An introduction to color 714
11.2 Colors with LATEX--The color and xcolor packages 719
11.3 Coloring tables 737
11.4 Color slides with LATEX--The beamer class 752
Appendix A: Producing PDF from Various Sources 797
- A.1 dvipdfm and dvipdfmx 798
A.2 pst-pdf--From PostScript to PDF 800
A.3 Generating PDF from LATEX 803
Apendix B: LATEX Software and User Group Information 809
- B.1 Getting help 809
B.2 How to get those TEX files? 810
B.3 Using CTAN 810
B.4 Finding the documentation on your TEX system 815
B.5 TEX user groups 817
Bibliography 819
Indexes 835
- General Index 837
METAFONT and METAPOST 879
PSTricks 897
XY-pic 919
People 924
Michel Goossens is at present responsible for scientific text processing at CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, in Geneva, Switzerland. He is a coauthor of The LaTeX Companion, Second Edition, The LaTeX Graphics Companion, Second Edition, and The LaTeX Web Companion, and also is a past president of the TUG and GUTenberg TeX Users Groups.
Michel began working at CERN after earning a Ph.D. in physics at Brussels University. At CERN, he soon realized the importance of good documentation and, since the middle 1980s, has been deeply involved with LaTeX. At the same time he has followed closely the development of other generic markup languages and was among the first users of SGML, HTML (invented at CERN), and later XML.
Frank Mittelbach is manager and technical director of the LaTeX3 Project, in which capacity he oversaw the release of LaTeX 2e and more than 15 subsequent releases of this software. In 1989 he joined Electronic Data Systems (EDS), working in a newly formed group for document processing using TeX and other tools. In his current position, he is responsible for concepts and implementation for remote monitoring and management of distributed systems and networks. Frank is a coauthor of The LaTeX Companion, Second Edition, and The LaTeX Graphics Companion, Second Edition, as well as the editor of the book series in which they appear, Tools and Techniques for Computer Typesetting.
Frank studied mathematics and computer science at the Johannes-Gutenberg University, Mainz. His interest in the automated formatting of complex documents in general, and in LaTeX in particular, goes back to his university days and has become a major interest, perhaps a vocation, and certainly it is now his "second job." He is author or coauthor of many and varied LaTeX extension packages, such as AMS-LaTeX, doc, multicol, and NFSS: the New Font Selection Scheme. In 1990 Frank presented the paper E-TeX: Guidelines for further TeX extensions, which explained the most critical shortcomings of TeX and argued the need for its further development and for research into the many open questions of automated typesetting. This was the first time the topic of change or extension had been openly discussed within the TeX community and, after getting some early opposition, it helped to spawn several important projects, such as eTEX, Omega, and NTS. He is now interested in bringing together the fruits of these TeX extension developments to get a stable, well-maintained, and widely available successor of TeX on which a future LaTeX3 can be based.
Sebastian Rahtz is information manager for Oxford University Computing Services. He is a coauthor of The LaTeX Graphics Companion, Second Edition, and The LaTeX Web Companion.
Sebastian started life in classics, moved to archaeology, and thence to computing. During the 1980s he taught humanities and archaeological computing at Southampton University, where he also came across TeX. The infection grew strong, and he spent most of the 1990s in TeX-related matters, working latterly for Elsevier Science in production support and in LaTeX to SGML conversion. During that time he was heavily involved in the international and UK TeX Users Groups in many capacities, and worked on a variety of LaTeX packages, most notably hyperref. His allegiance today has largely moved to XML, in which capacity he is Oxford's representative on the Board of the Text Encoding Initiative, but he retains a soft spot for the funny backslash and curly bracket language.
Denis Roegel is associate professor in computer science at the University of Nancy. He has been involved in LaTeX for the past 15 years and has a special interest in technical graphics.
Denis discovered computers in the early 1980s, and after studying mathematics and physics, he earned an engineering degree from the École Supérieure d'Électricité and a Ph.D. in computer science from the Université Henri Poincaré in Nancy. He later was a postdoctoral fellow at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Herbert Voß is a teacher of mathematics, physics and computer science at a German high school and a lecturer at the Free University of Berlin. For the past three years, he has been heavily involved in maintaining PSTricks and using PostScript from within LaTeX.
Herbert studied Electrical Engineering and Power Electronics in Hannover and Berlin. His first experience with a computer was in 1970 with an IBM machine and Algol60. The first text-processing program he used, in 1982, was Wordstar on a microcomputer with an 8080 chip. From this time on, he also was heavily involved in programming for various projects with Turbo Pascal. He came back to PostScript and LaTeX at the end of the 90s.
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