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A Beginner's Introduction to Typesetting with LATEX

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A Beginner's Introduction to Typesetting with LATEX
"This book originally accompanied a 2-day course on using the LATEX typesetting system. It has been extensively revised and updated and can now be used for self-study or in the classroom. It is aimed at users of Linux, Macintosh, or Microsoft Windows but it can be used with LATEX systems on any platform, including other Unix workstations, mainframes, and even your Personal Digital Assistant (PDA)." This book is published under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl-1.3-standalone.html
Peter Flynn
Added 18 Feb 2009
Updated 01 Feb 2011
Authors Peter Flynn

This book is published under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl-1.3-standalone.html

You can also link to the online version
http://latex.silmaril.ie/formattinginformation/

Table of Contents

1.1 Editing and display
1.2 Installation for Linux and Unix
1.3 Installation for Apple Mac
1.4 Installation for MicrosoftWindows
1.4.1 proTEXt (TEX Collection 2004)
1.4.2 TEX Live (TEX Collection 2003)
1.4.3 Installation problems
2.1 Markup
2.2 Quick start for the impatient
2.3 Editors
2.3.1 LYX
2.3.2 TEXshell
2.3.3 WinShell
2.3.4 TEXnicCenter
2.3.5 WinEdt
2.3.6 GNU Emacs
2.3.7 Mac editors
2.4 LATEX commands
2.4.1 Simple commands
2.4.2 Commands with arguments
2.4.3 White-space in LATEX
2.5 Special characters
2.5.1 Using the special characters
2.6 Quotation marks
2.7 Accents
2.8 Dimensions, hyphenation, justification, and breaking
2.8.1 Specifying size units
2.8.2 Hyphenation
2.8.3 Unbreakable text
2.8.4 Dashes
2.8.5 Justification
2.8.6 Languages
2.9 Mathematics
3.1 The Document Class Declaration
3.1.1 Document class options
3.2 The document environment
3.3 Titling
3.4 Abstracts and summaries
3.5 Sections
3.5.1 Section numbering
3.6 Ordinary paragraphs
3.7 Table of contents
4.1 Typesetting
4.1.1 Standard LATEX
4.1.2 Running LATEX from a command window
4.1.3 pdfLATEX
4.2 Errors and warnings
4.2.1 Error messages
4.2.2 Warnings
4.2.3 Examples
4.3 Screen preview
4.3.1 Previewing DVI output
4.3.2 Previewing with PostScript
4.3.3 Previewing with PDF
4.4 Printer output
5.1 Packages
5.1.1 Using an existing package
5.1.2 Package documentation
5.2 Downloading and installing packages
5.2.1 Downloading packages
5.2.2 Installing a package
5.2.3 Replicating the TDS
5.3 Online help
5.3.1 The FAQ
5.3.2 The TEXhax mailing list
5.3.3 Web sites
5.3.4 News
5.3.5 Commercial support
6.1 A little think about structure
6.2 Lists
6.2.1 Itemized lists
6.2.2 Enumerated lists
6.2.3 Description lists
6.2.4 Inline lists
6.2.5 Reference lists and segmented lists
6.2.6 Lists within lists
6.3 Tables
6.3.1 Floats
6.3.2 Formal tables
6.3.3 Tabular matter
6.3.4 Tabular techniques for alignment
6.4 Figures
6.5 Images
6.5.1 Making images
6.5.2 Graphics storage
6.6 Verbatim text
6.6.1 Inline verbatim
6.6.2 Display verbatim
6.7 Boxes, sidebars, and panels
6.7.1 Boxes of text
6.7.2 Framed boxes
6.7.3 Sidebars and panels
7.1 Quotations
7.2 Footnotes and end-notes
7.3 Marginal notes
7.4 Cross-references
7.4.1 Normal cross-references
7.4.2 Bibliographic references
7.5 Indexes and glossaries
7.6 Multiple columns
8.1 Changing layout
8.1.1 Spacing
8.1.2 Headers and footers
8.2 Using fonts
8.2.1 Changing the default font family
8.2.2 Changing the font-family temporarily
8.2.3 Changing font style
8.2.4 Font sizes
8.2.5 Logical markup
8.2.6 Colour
8.3 Installing new fonts
8.3.1 Installing METAFONT fonts
8.3.2 Installing PostScript fonts
8.3.3 Installing the Type 1 Computer Modern fonts
9.1 Simple replacement macros
9.2 Macros using information gathered previously
9.3 Macros with arguments
9.4 Nested macros
9.5 Macros and environments
9.6 Reprogramming LATEX?s internals
9.6.1 Changing list item bullets
10.1 Converting into LATEX
10.1.1 Getting LATEX out of XML
10.2 Converting out of LATEX
10.2.1 Conversion toWord
10.2.2 LATEX2HTML
10.2.3 TEX4ht
10.2.4 Extraction from PS and PDF
10.2.5 Last resort: strip the markup
TUG membership benefits
Becoming a TUG member
Privacy
D.0 PREAMBLE
D.1 APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS
D.2 VERBATIM COPYING
D.3 COPYING IN QUANTITY
D.4 MODIFICATIONS
D.5 COMBINING DOCUMENTS
D.6 COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS
D.7 AGGREGATION WITH INDEPENDENT WORKS
D.8 TRANSLATION
D.9 TERMINATION
D.10 FUTURE REVISIONS OF THIS LICENSE
1 Create a new document
2 Adding the document environment
3 Adding the metadata
4 Using an Abstract or Summary
5 Start your document text
6 Start typing!
7 Inserting the table of contents
8 Saving your
le
9 Running from the toolbar or menu
10 Running in a terminal or console window
11 Print it!
12 Add colour
13 Read all about it
14 Install a package
15 List practice
16 Nesting
17 Create a tabulation
18 Adding pictures
19 Try some
xed-format text
20 Other names
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