A Guide to Latex: Document Preparation for Beginners and Advanced Users

Kopka, Helmut/Daly, Patrick W.

ISBN 10: 0201398257 / ISBN 13: 9780201398250

Published by Addison-Wesley, Reading, Mass., 1999, 1999

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600 S., 8°, 3. Edition, Obrosch., Einband berieben, sonst gut, in Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Guide to Latex: Document Preparation for Beginners and Advanced Users
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley, Reading, Mass., 1999
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0201398257
• ISBN 13: 9780201398250
• Binding: Soft cover
• Seller catalogs:
  • Technik

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Synopsis

A completely revised edition of this accessible guide to LATEX document preparation, bringing it up to date with the latest releases and Web ad PC based developments. A Guide to LATEX covers the basics as well as advanced LATEX topics and contains numerous practical examples and handy tips for avoiding problems. It covers the latest LATEX extensions and has been completely updated to cover latest releases and upgrades.

The book explains the LATEX macro package for the TEX text formatting program, presenting a complete description for beginners, going on to more advanced and specialized features. Files for LATEX processing contain the actual text plus markup and programming command, al as ASCII text, something tat makes them portable to every computer system. The LATEX/TEX program processes these files to produce high-quality typeset results, especially for complicated mathematics.

LATEX offers the user all the features of any text processing system: automatic section formatting, numbering of sections, figures, tables and equations, table of contents, lists of figures and tables, cross-referencing to the numbers, bibliography, keyword index, colour, inclusion of illustrations. All of these are demonstrated to the reader via examples and exercises through a structure that takes him or her from the simplest beginnings to the more complicated refinements.

About the Author

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