Practical LaTeX

228 Pages·2014·2.73 MB·English

by  George Grätzer

George Grätzer
Practical LATEX

George Gra¨tzer
Practical LAT X
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Short Contents
Introduction xv
1 MissionImpossible 1
2 Text 31
3 Textenvironments 51
4 Inlineformulas 61
5 Displayedformulas 77
6 Documents 89
7 CustomizingLATEX 109
8 Presentations 125
9 Illustrations 145
A Textsymboltables 161
B Mathsymboltables 165
C LATEXontheiPad 179
PracticalFinder 195
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Contents
Introduction xv
1 MissionImpossible 1
1.1 Gettingstarted. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.1.1 YourLATEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.1.2 Samplefiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.1.3 Editingcycle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.1.4 Typingthesourcefile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.2 Thekeyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.3 Yourfirsttextnotes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.4 Linestoowide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
1.5 Anotewithformulas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
1.6 Errorsinformulas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
1.7 Thebuildingblocksofaformula . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
1.8 Displayedformulas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
1.8.1 Equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
1.8.2 Symbolicreferencing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
1.8.3 Alignedformulas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
1.8.4 Cases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
1.9 Theanatomyofadocument . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
1.10 LATEXerrormessages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
1.11 Addinganillustration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
1.12 Addingyourowncommands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
1.13 Yourerrors:Davey’sDosandDon’ts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
1.14 Theanatomyofapresentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
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