LaTeX Companion

Name: LaTeX Companion
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ISBN: 9780201362992

ISBN-10: 0201362996

ISBN-13: 9780201362992

Edition: 2nd 2004 (Revised)

Authors: John John Fuller, Frank Mittelbach, Michel Goossens, Johannes Braams, David Carlisle

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LaTeX is the leading text preparation system for high-quality documents, and is used extensively in the sciences and academia. The previous edition of this book has been essential reading for anyone wishing to gain a thorough understanding of LaTeX. It is the most comprehensive and authoritative guide available to traditional document layout - specialized graphics extensions and Web applications are covered in separate Companions. Much has changed in the ten years since the first edition was published. This new edition covers in depth all the major new developments, and updates coverage in all other areas. The authors, who are all core members of the LaTeX3 Project, cover not just the core…

Book details

List price: $74.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Addison Wesley Professional
Publication date: 4/22/2004
Binding: Mixed Media
Pages: 1120
Size: 7.30" wide x 9.20" long x 1.60" tall
Weight: 3.938
Language: English



List of Figures


List of Tables


Preface



Introduction


A brief history


Today's system


Working with this book



The Structure of a LATEX Document


The structure of a source file


Sectioning commands


Table of contents structures


Managing references



Basic Formatting Tools


Phrases and paragraphs


Footnotes, endnotes, and marginals


List structures


Simulating typed text


Lines and columns



The Layout of the Page


Geometrical dimensions of the layout


Changing the layout


Dynamic page data: page numbers and marks


Page styles


Visual formatting


Doing layout with class



Tabular Material


Standard LaTEX environments


Array--Extending the tabular environments


Calculating column widths


Multipage tabular material


Color in tables


Customizing table rules and spacing


Further extensions


Footnotes in tabular material


Applications



Mastering Floats


Understanding float parameters


Float placement control


Extensions to LaTEX's float concept


Inline floats


Controlling the float caption



Fonts and Encodings


Introduction


Understanding font characteristics


Using fonts in text


Using fonts in math


Standard LaTEX font support


PSNFSS--Post


Script fonts with LaTEX


Acollection of font packages


The LaTEX world of symbols


The low-level interface


Setting up new fonts


LaTEX's encoding models


Compatibility packages for very old documents



Higher Mathematics


Introduction to AMS-LaTEX


Display and alignment structures for equations


Matrix-like environments


Compound structures and decorations


Variable symbol commands


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