The LaTeX Companion · 2nd Edition by Mittelbach, Frank -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Title Page Copyright Page About This eBook Addison-Wesley Series on Tools and Techniques for Computer Typesetting Dedication Page Contents List of Figures List of Tables Preface Chapter 1. Introduction

1.1. A brief history 1.2. Today’s system 1.3. Working with this book

Chapter 2. The Structure of a LaTeX Document

2.1. The structure of a source file 2.2. Sectioning commands 2.3. Table of contents structures 2.4. Managing references

Chapter 3. Basic Formatting Tools

3.1. Phrases and paragraphs 3.2. Footnotes, endnotes, and marginals 3.3. List structures 3.4. Simulating typed text 3.5. Lines and columns

Chapter 4. The Layout of the Page

4.1. Geometrical dimensions of the layout 4.2. Changing the layout 4.3. Dynamic page data: page numbers and marks 4.4. Page styles 4.5. Visual formatting 4.6. Doing layout with class

Chapter 5. Tabular Material

5.1. Standard LaTeX environments 5.2. array—Extending the tabular environments 5.3. Calculating column widths 5.4. Multipage tabular material 5.5. Color in tables 5.6. Customizing table rules and spacing 5.7. Further extensions 5.8. Footnotes in tabular material 5.9. Applications

Chapter 6. Mastering Floats

6.1. Understanding float parameters 6.2. Float placement control 6.3. Extensions to LaTeX’s float concept 6.4. Inline floats 6.5. Controlling the float caption

Chapter 7. Fonts and Encodings

7.1. Introduction 7.2. Understanding font characteristics 7.3. Using fonts in text 7.4. Using fonts in math 7.5. Standard LaTeX font support 7.6. PSNFSS—PostScript fonts with LaTeX 7.7. A collection of font packages 7.8. The LaTeX world of symbols 7.9. The low-level interface 7.10. Setting up new fonts 7.11. LaTeX’s encoding models 7.12. Compatibility packages for very old documents

Chapter 8. Higher Mathematics

8.1. Introduction to AMS-LaTeX 8.2. Display and alignment structures for equations 8.3. Matrix-like environments 8.4. Compound structures and decorations 8.5. Variable symbol commands 8.6. Words in mathematics 8.7. Fine-tuning the mathematical layout 8.8. Fonts in formulas 8.9. Symbols in formulas

Chapter 9. LaTeX in a Multilingual Environment

9.1. TeX and non-English languages 9.2. The babel user interface 9.3. User commands provided by language options 9.4. Support for non-Latin alphabets 9.5. Tailoring babel 9.6. Other approaches

Chapter 10. Graphics Generation and Manipulation

Chapter 11. Index Generation

11.1. Syntax of the index entries 11.2. makeindex—A program to format and sort indexes 11.3. xindy—An alternative to MakeIndex 11.4. Enhancing the index with LaTeX features

Chapter 12. Managing Citations

12.1. Introduction 12.2. The number-only system 12.3. The author-date system 12.4. The author-number system 12.5. The short-title system 12.6. Multiple bibliographies in one document

Chapter 13. Bibliography Generation

13.1. The BibTeX program and some variants 13.2. The BibTeX database format 13.3. On-line bibliographies 13.4. Bibliography database management tools 13.5. Formatting the bibliography with BibTeX styles 13.6. The BibTeX style language

Chapter 14. LaTeX Package Documentation Tools

14.1. doc—Documenting LaTeX and other code 14.2. docstrip.tex—Producing ready-to-run code 14.3. ltxdoc—A simple LaTeX documentation class 14.4. Making use of version control tools

Appendix A. A LaTeX Overview for Preamble, Package, and Class Writers

A.1. Linking markup and formatting A.2. Page markup—Boxes and rules A.3. Control structure extensions A.4. Package and class file structure

Appendix B. Tracing and Resolving Problems

B.1. Error messages B.2. Warnings and informational messages B.3. TeX and LaTeX commands for tracing

Appendix C. LaTeX Software and User Group Information

C.1. Getting help C.2. How to get those TeX files? C.3. Using CTAN C.4. Finding the documentation on your TeX system C.5. TeX user groups

Appendix D. TLC2 TeX CD

Origins—The TeX Live system Installing LaTeX from the CD-ROM Running LaTeX directly from the CD-ROM The LaTeX Companion example documents Licenses

Bibliography Index of Commands and Concepts People Biographies

Frank Mittelbach Michel Goossens Johannes Braams David Carlisle Chris Rowley Christine Detig & Joachim Schrod

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