LaTeX beginners Guide电子书

LaTeX

Table of Contents

LaTeX

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Time for action - heading

What just happened?

Pop quiz

Have a go hero - heading

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Getting Started with LaTeX

What is LaTeX?

How we can benefit

The virtues of open source

Separation of form and content

Portability

Protection for your work

Comparing it to word processor software

What are the challenges?

Installing LaTeX

Time for action – installing TeX Live using the net installer wizard

What just happened?

Time for action – installing TeX Live offline

What just happened?

Installation on other operating systems

Creating our first document

Time for action – writing our first document with TeXworks

What just happened?

Have a go hero – checking out advanced LaTeX editors

Summary

2. Formatting Words, Lines, and Paragraphs

Understanding logical formatting

Time for action – titling your document

What just happened?

Exploring the document structure

Understanding LaTeX commands

How LaTeX reads your input

Time for action – trying out the effect of spaces, line breaks, and empty lines

What just happened?

Commenting your source text

Printing out special symbols

Time for action – writing special characters in our text

What just happened?

Formatting text – fonts, shapes, and styles

Time for action – tuning the font shape

What just happened?

Choosing the font family

Time for action – switching to sans-serif and to typewriter fonts

What just happened?

Switching fonts

Time for action – switching the font family

What just happened?

Summarizing font commands and declarations

Delimiting the effect of commands

Time for action – exploring grouping by braces

What just happened?

Time for action – exploring font sizes

What just happened?

Using environments

Time for action – using an environment to adjust the font size

What just happened?

Saving time and effort – creating your own commands

Time for action – creating our first command using it as anabbreviation

What just happened?

Gentle spacing after commands

Time for action – adding intelligent spacing to command output

What just happened?

Creating more universal commands – using arguments

Time for action – creating a macro for formatting keywords

What just happened?

Using optional arguments

Time for action – marking keywords with optional formatting

What just happened?

Pop quiz – commands

Have a go hero – saving effort using optional arguments

Using boxes to limit the width of paragraphs

Time for action – creating a narrow text column

What just happened?

Common paragraph boxes

Have a go hero – exploring further features of \parbox

Boxes containing more text

Time for action – using the minipage environment

What just happened?

Have a go hero – creating a footnote inside a minipage

Understanding environments

Breaking lines and paragraphs

Improving hyphenation

Time for action – stating division points for words

What just happened?

Have a go hero – exploiting the hyphenat package

Improving the justification further

Time for action – using microtype

What just happened?

Breaking lines manually

Time for action – using line breaks

What just happened?

Have a go hero – exploring line breaking options

Preventing line breaks

Managing line breaks wisely

Exploring the fine details

Time for action – exploring ligatures

What just happened?

Understanding ligatures

Choosing the right dash

Setting dots

Time for action – using differently spaced dots

What just happened?

Time for action – comparing dots to ellipsis

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Setting accents

Time for action – experimenting with accents

What just happened?

Using special characters directly in the editor

Time for action – using accents directly

What just happened?

Turning off full justification

Time for action – justifying a paragraph to the left

What just happened?

Creating ragged-left text

Time for action – centering a title

What just happened?

Using environments for justification

Time for action – centering verses

What just happened?

Displaying quotes

Time for action – quoting a scientist

What just happened?

Quoting longer text

Time for action – quoting TeX's benefits

What just happened?

Time for action – spacing between paragraphs instead of indentation

What just happened?

Pop quiz – lines and paragraphs

Summary

3. Designing Pages

Defining the overall layout

Time for action – writing a book with chapters

What just happened?

Reviewing LaTeX's default page layout

Defining the margins yourself

Time for action – specifying margins

What just happened?

Using the geometry package

Choosing the paper size

Specifying the text area

Setting the margins

Obtaining package documentation

Time for action – finding the geometry package manual

What just happened?

Have a go hero – constructing the page layout with typearea

Changing the line spacing

Time for action – increasing line spacing

What just happened?

Have a go hero – examining a package source file

Using class options to configure the document style

Time for action – creating a two-column landscape document

What just happened?

Have a go hero – trying KOMA-Script classes

Creating a table of contents

Time for action – adding a table of contents

What just happened?

Sectioning and the contents

Time for action – shortening the table of content entries

What just happened?

Designing headers and footers

Time for action – customizing headers with the fancyhdr package

What just happened?

Understanding page styles

Customizing header and footer

Using decorative lines in header or footer

Changing LaTeX's header marks

Breaking pages

Time for action – inserting page breaks

What just happened?

Have a go hero – exploring page breaking options

Enlarging a page

Time for action – sparing an almost empty page

What just happened?

Using footnotes

Time for action – using footnotes in text and in headings

What just happened?

Modifying the dividing line

Time for action – redefining the footnote line

What just happened?

Using packages to expand footnote styles

Pop quiz

Summary

4. Creating Lists

Building a bulleted list

Time for action – listing LaTeX packages

What just happened?

Nesting lists

Time for action – listing packages by topic

What just happened?

Creating a numbered list

Time for action – writing a step-by-step tutorial

What just happened?

Customizing lists

Saving space with compact lists

Time for action – shrinking our tutorial

What just happened?

Choosing bullets and numbering format

Time for action – modifying lists using enumitem

What just happened?

Suspending and continuing lists

Producing a definition list

Time for action – explaining capabilities of packages

What just happened?

Have a go hero – adjusting the dimensions of lists

Pop quiz

Summary

5. Creating Tables and Inserting Pictures

Writing in columns

Time for action – lining up information using the tabbing environment

What just happened?

Time for action – lining up font commands

What just happened?

Typesetting tables

Time for action – building a table of font family commands

What just happened?

Drawing lines in tables

Understanding formatting arguments

Increasing the row height

Beautifying tables

Time for action – adding nicer horizontal lines with the booktabs package

What just happened?

Have a go hero – adjusting lengths

Spanning entries over multiple columns

Time for action – merging cells

What just happened?

Inserting code column-wise

Time for action – using the array package

What just happened?

Spanning entries over multiple rows

Time for action – merging cells using the multirow package

What just happened?

Adding captions to tables

Time for action – adding a caption to our font table

What just happened?

Placing captions above

Have a go hero – customizing captions

Auto-fitting columns to the table width

Generating multi-page tables

Coloring tables

Using landscape orientation

Aligning columns at the decimal point

Handling narrow columns

Pop quiz – tables

Inserting pictures

Time for action – including a picture

What just happened?

Scaling pictures

Choosing the optimal file type

Including whole pages

Putting images behind the text

Managing floating environments

Time for action – letting a figure float

What just happened?

Understanding float placement options

Forcing the output of floats

Limiting floating

Avoiding floating at all

Spanning figures and tables over text columns

Letting text flow around figures

Time for action – embedding a picture within text

What just happened?

Breaking figures and tables into pieces

Pop quiz – pictures and floats

Summary

6. Cross-Referencing

Setting labels and referencing

Time for action – referencing items of a top list

What just happened?

Assigning a key

Referring to a key

Referring to a page

Producing intelligent page references

Time for action – introducing variable references

What just happened?

Fine-tuning page references

Referring to page ranges

Using automatic reference names

Time for action – referring cleverly

What just happened?

Combing cleveref and varioref

Referring to labels in other documents

Have a go hero – turning references into hyperlinks

Pop quiz

Summary

7. Listing Content and References

Customizing the table of contents

Time for action – refining an extensive table of contents

What just happened?

Adjusting the depth of the TOC

Shortening entries

Adding entries manually

Creating and customizing lists of figures

Time for action – creating a list of diagrams

What just happened?

Creating a list of tables

Using packages for customization

Generating an index

Time for action – marking words and building the index

What just happened?

Defining index entries and subentries

Specifying page ranges

Using symbols and macros in the index

Referring to other index entries

Fine-tuning page numbers

Designing the index layout

Creating a bibliography

Time for action – citing texts and listing the references

What just happened?

Using the standard bibliography environment

Using bibliography databases with BibTeX

Time for action – creating and using a BibTeX database

What just happened?

Looking at the BibTeX entry fields

Understanding BibTeX entry types

Choosing the bibliography style

Listing references without citing

Changing the headings

Have a go hero – using natbib

Pop quiz

Summary

8. Typing Math Formulas

Writing basic formulas

Time for action – discussing quadratic equations and roots

What just happened?

Embedding math expressions within text

Displaying formulas

Numbering equations

Adding subscripts and superscripts

Extracting roots

Writing fractions

Greek letters

Script letters

Producing an ellipsis

Comparing in-line formulas to displayed formulas

Changing the font, style, and size

Customizing displayed formulas

Time for action – typesetting multi-line formulas

What just happened?

Aligning multi-line equations

Numbering rows in multi-line formulas

Inserting text into formulas

Fine-tuning formulas

Using operators

Exploring the wealth of math symbols

Binary operation symbols

Binary relation symbols

Inequality relation symbols

Subset and superset symbols

Variable sized operators

Arrows

Harpoons

Symbols derived from letters

Variable sized delimiters

Miscellaneous symbols

Writing units

Building math structures

Creating arrays

Writing binomial coefficients:

Typesetting matrices

Stacking expressions

Underlining and overlining

Setting accents

Putting a symbol above another

Writing theorems and definitions

Have a go hero – checking out the mathtools package

Pop quiz

Summary

9. Using Fonts

Preparing the encoding

Time for action – directly using special characters

What just happened?

Installing additional fonts

Choosing the main font

Time for action – comparing Computer Modern to Latin Modern

What just happened?

Loading font packages

Latin Modern – a replacement for the standard font

Kp-fonts – a full set of fonts

Serif fonts

Times Roman

Charter

Palatino

Bookman

New Century Schoolbook

Concrete Roman

Sans-serif fonts

Helvetica

Bera Sans

Computer Modern Bright

Kurier

Typewriter fonts

Courier

Inconsolata

Bera Mono

Exploring the world of LaTeX fonts

Pop quiz

Summary

10. Developing Large Documents

Splitting the input

Time for action – swapping out preamble and chapter contents

What just happened?

Including small pieces of code

Including bigger parts of a document

Compiling parts of a document

Creating front and back matter

Time for action – adding a dedication and an appendix

What just happened?

Designing a title page

Time for action – creating a title page

What just happened?

Working with templates

Time for action – starting with a template

What just happened?

Have a go hero – evaluating and enhancing templates

Pop quiz

Summary

11. Enhancing Your Documents Further

Using hyperlinks and bookmarks

Time for action – adding hyperlinks

What just happened?

Time for action – customizing the hyperlink appearance

What just happened?

Time for action – editing PDF metadata

What just happened?

Creating hyperlinks manually

Creating bookmarks manually

Math formulas and special symbols in bookmarks

Benefitting from other packages

Time for action – visiting the TeX Catalogue Online

What just happened?

Time for action – installing a LaTeX package

What just happened?

Designing headings

Time for action – designing chapter and section headings

What just happened?

Coloring your document

Have a go hero – creating colorful tables

Pop quiz

Summary

12. Troubleshooting

Understanding and fixing errors

Time for action – interpreting and fixing an error

What just happened?

Using commands and environments

Writing math formulas

Handling the preamble and document body

Working with files

Creating tables and arrays

Working with lists

Working with floating figures and tables

General syntax errors

Handling warnings

Time for action – emphasizing on a sans-serif font

What just happened?

Justifying text

Referencing

Choosing fonts

Placing figures and tables

Customizing the document class

Avoiding obsolete classes and packages

General troubleshooting

Have a go hero – examining LaTeX's log files

Pop quiz – troubleshooting

Summary

13. Using Online Resources

Web forums, discussion boards, and Q&A sites

Usenet groups

comp.text.tex

Newsgroups in other languages

Web forums

LaTeX-Community.org

TeX and LaTeX on Stack Exchange

Time for action – asking a question online

What just happened?

Frequently Asked Questions

UK TeX FAQ

Visual LaTeX FAQ

MacTeX FAQ

AMS-Math FAQ

LaTeX Picture FAQ

Mailing lists

texhax

tex-live

texworks

List collections

TeX user group sites

TUG – the TeX users group

The LaTeX project

UK TUG – TeX in the United Kingdom

Local user groups

Homepages of LaTeX software and editors

LaTeX distributions

LaTeX editors

Cross-platform

Windows

Linux

Mac OS X

LaTeX archives and catalogs

CTAN – the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network

The TeX Catalogue Online

The LaTeX Font Catalogue

TeX Resources on the Web

Friends of LaTeX

XeTeX

LuaTeX

ConTeXt

LyX

LaTeX blogs

The TeXblog

Some TeX Developments

LaTeX Alive

LaTeX for Humans

The TeX community aggregator

Summary

A. Pop Quiz Answers

Chapter 2: Formatting Words, Lines, and Paragraphs

Commands

Lines and paragraphs

Chapter 3: Designing Pages

Chapter 4: Creating Lists

Chapter 5: Creating Tables and Inserting Pictures

Tables

Pictures and floats

Chapter 6: Cross-Referencing

Chapter 7: Listing Content and References

Chapter 8: Typing Math Formulas

Chapter 9: Using Fonts

Chapter 10: Developing Large Documents

Chapter 11: Enhancing Your Documents Further

Chapter 12: Troubleshooting

Index