Practical Tutorial on LaTeX (English, 4th Edition)

Author: (German) Kopka (Kopka/H.) et al.
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Publish Date: 2005-04-01
Features: This book emphasizes the use of LaTeX as a markup language, whose role aligns with the core idea of XML—separating format from content. It provides a detailed discussion of important components and includes related standards. The accompanying CD-ROM covers a significant amount of information from the book and includes a full version of LaTeX that can be installed and used on Windows, macOSX, and Linux systems. LaTeX is the preferred text layout system for scientists and scholars, particularly suitable for typesetting technical documents. This best-selling book teaches you how to use LaTeX to create high-quality documents and serves as the standard for all LaTeX2ε, offering extensive details, examples, exercises, tips, and tricks to deepen readers' understanding of the more important components in LaTeX processing. It comprehensively covers the basics of LaTeX, including how to input text, symbols, and mathematical content; how to create tables and lists; how to add graphics and color; how to organize and customize documents, etc. It also discusses advanced concepts such as bibliographic databases, BibTeX, extending mathematical applications with AMS-LaTeX, graphics, presentations, and letters. The appendix of the book includes topics such as installation, error messages, creating packages, HTML, XML, fonts, and an alphabetically sorted list of commands with annotations.