LaTeX Beginner’s Guide: Create visually appealing texts, articles, and books for business and science using LaTeX, 2nd Edition

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If you are looking for a powerful and complex tool that produces professional prints and PDF files, LaTeX is the way to go. LaTeX is high-quality open source typesetting software that can help you create professional-looking text, articles, and books, presenting complex mathematical formulas, and managing complex documents. However, if you feel intimidated by its multitude of features, the LaTeX Beginner’s Guide will help you become comfortable with LaTeX and its online and offline capabilities.

This book offers a practical introduction to LaTeX with fully explained examples that advance from beginner to LaTeX professional quickly. You’ll learn to typeset documents containing tables, figures, formulas, and common book elements such as bibliographies, glossaries, and indexes, and go on to manage complex documents and use modern PDF features. The LaTeX Beginner’s Guide will show you how to fine-tune text and page layout, create professional-looking tables, include figures, and benefit from modern PDF features.

This book is perfect for those writing mathematical, scientific, or business papers, or who have a thesis to complete. School and university students will find this book helpful, as will mathematicians, physicists, engineers, and humanists. With the help of this book, anybody can leverage LaTeX’s high performance for creating documents while saving typing work.

Key Features

• Get a hands-on introduction to LaTeX using fully explained examples to advance from beginner to LaTeX professional quickly
• Write impressive mathematical, scientific, and business papers or theses using LaTeX
• Explore LaTeX online

What you will learn

• Make the most of LaTeX’s powerful features to produce professionally designed texts
• Download, install, and set up LaTeX and use additional styles, templates, and tools
• Typeset math formulas and scientific expressions to the highest standards
• Understand how to include graphics and work with figures and tables
• Discover professional fonts and modern PDF features
• Work with book elements such as bibliographies, glossaries, and indexes
• Typeset documents containing tables, figures, and formulas

Table of Contents

1. Getting Started with LaTeX
2. Formatting Text and Creating Macros
3. Designing Pages
4. Creating Lists
5. Including Images
6. Creating Tables
7. Using Cross-References
8. Listing Content and References
9. Writing Math Formulas
10. Using Fonts
11. Developing Large Documents
12. Enhancing Your Documents Further
13. Troubleshooting
14. Using Online Resources