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Author:   Helmut Kopka ,  Patrick W. Daly
Publisher:   Pearson Education (US)
Imprint:   Addison-Wesley Educational Publishers Inc
Edition:   4th edition
Dimensions:   Width: 18.90cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.948kg
ISBN:  

9780321173850

ISBN 10:   0321173856
Pages:   624
Publication Date:   11 December 2003
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Mixed media product
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Preface. I. BASICS. 1. Introduction. Just what is LaTeX? Markup Languages. TEX and its offspring. How to use this book. Basics of a LaTeX file. TEX processing procedure. Sample LaTeX file. 2. Text, Symbols, and Commands. Command names and arguments. Environments. Declarations. Lengths. Special characters. Exercises. Fine-tuning text. Word division. 3. Document Layout and Organization. Document class. Page style. Parts of the document. Table of contents. 4. Displaying Text. Changing font style. Centering and indenting. Lists. Generalized lists. Theorem-like declarations. Printing literal text. Comments within text. 5. Text in Boxes. Boxes. Footnotes and marginal notes. 6. Tables. Tabulator stops. Tables. 7. Mathematical Formulas. Mathematical environments. Main elements of math mode. Mathematical symbols. Additional elements. Fine-tuning mathematics. Beyond standard LaTeX. 8. Graphics Inclusion and Color. The graphics packages. Adding color. 9. Floating tables and figures. Float placement. Postponing floats. Style parameters for floats. Float captions. Float examples. References to figures and tables in text. Some float packages. 10. User Customizations. Counters. Lengths. User-defined commands. User-defined environments. Some comments on user-defined structures. II. BEYOND THE BASICS. 11. Document Management. Processing parts of a document. In-text references. Bibliographies. Keyword index. 12. Bibliographic Databases and BibTeX. The BibTeX program. Creating a bibliographic database. Customizing bibliography styles. 13. PostScript and PDF. LaTeX and PostScript. Portable Document Format. 14. Multilingual LaTeX. The babel system. Contents of the language.dat file. 15. Math Extensions with AMS-LaTeX. Invoking AMS-LaTeX. Standard features of AMS-LaTeX. Further AMS-LaTeX packages. The AMS fonts. 16. Drawing with LaTeX. The picture environment. Extended pictures. Other drawing packages. 17. Presentation Material. Slide production with slides class. Slide production with seminar. Slide production with the prosper class. Electronic documents for screen viewing. Special effects with PDF. 18. Letters. The LaTeX letter class. A house letter style. A model letter customization. APPENDICES. A: The New Font Selection Scheme. Font attributes under NFSS. Simplified font selection. Font encoding. B: Installing and Maintaining LaTeX. Installing LaTeX. Obtaining the Adobe euro fonts. TeX directory structure. The CTAN servers. Additional standard files. The various LaTeX files. C: Error Messages. Basic structure of error messages. Some sample errors. List of LaTeX error messages. TeX error messages. Warnings. Search for subtle errors. D: LaTeX Programming. Class and package files. LaTeX programming commands. Changing preprogrammed text. Direct typing of special letters. Alternatives for special symbols. Managing code and documentation. E. LaTeX and the World Wide Web. Converting to HTML. The Extensible Markup Language: XML. F: Obsolete LaTeX. The 2.09 preamble. Font selection. Obsolete means obsolete. G: Command Summary. Brief description of the LaTeX commands. Summary tables and figures. Bibliography. Index. 0321173856T11132003

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Helmut Kopka was previously a scientific staff member at the Max-Planck-Institut fur Aeronomie in Germany. He was involved in writing one of the first TeX drivers for HP LaserJet and subsequently introduced TeX and LaTeX into his institute, where it has become the standard text-processing system for scientific publications. Patrick W. Daly is a scientific staff member at the Max-Planck-Institut fur Aeronomie in Germany. He has written formatting styles for several scientific journals and is the author of the natbib package for flexible bibliographic citations and of the custom-bib system for customizing bibliographic styles for use with BibTeX. 0321173856AB10162003

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