A Guide To Latex: Document Preparation For Beginners And Advanced Users - Softcover

Kopka, H.; Daly, P.

 
9780201427776: A Guide To Latex: Document Preparation For Beginners And Advanced Users

Synopsis

The authors provide a highly accessible tutorial for users new to LaTeX. Fully revised this edition covers the latest version of LaTeX, while it continues to include a thorough explanation of theinternals of the system including extensive examples and power tips for achieving the best results.
Features

  • Coverage of LaTeX 2.09
  • More accessible design uses margin icons to flag power tips within the text.
  • Coverage of the New Font Selection Scheme (NFSS)
  • Reorganized appendices cover writing LaTeX packages, classses and their documentation, multilingual aspects of the system.

 

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From the Publisher

Learning about LATEX
If you are a user with little or no experience of computers or text formatting and you want to muster LATEX to produce documents of high quality, then this book is essential reading. Fully revised to cover the most up-to-date versions of LATEX this accessible and practical tutorial contains all of the information you will need to get up and running with LATEX, and is an essential reference tool to users at all levels.

This book will enable you to: Master the basics of LATEX and explore more advanced topics including user-defined extensions Get up to speed with the latest LATEX extensions for adaptations to other languages Explore numerous practical examples and pick up handy tips for avoiding common problems Benefit from detailed appendices including the Command Summary and Summary Tables New to this Edition Completely updated to cover the latest releases and upgrades of LATEX Covers new features including graphics importation and PostScript font installation Section on LATEX and the World Wide Web Section on LATEX on Windows & Windows NT Section on installations for 32 bit PC

About the Author

Dr Helmut Kopka and Dr Patrick Daly are both based at the Max-Planck-Institut fur Aeronomie in Germany.

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ISBN 10:  0201398257 ISBN 13:  9780201398250
Publisher: Addison Wesley, 1999
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