Ebook: Latex for Linux: A Vade Mecum
Author: Bernice Sacks Lipkin (auth.)
- Tags: Programming Languages Compilers Interpreters, Document Preparation and Text Processing
- Year: 1999
- Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
- pdf
l With the advent of Linux and its increasing popularity, people who have split their person alities, working a Unix machine during the day and a Windows machine at home at night, have been transforming their home computers into Linux boxes. Others, who run large programs on Unix with no problem, are tired of being told there is not enough memory to compile or run their programs in DOS and older Windows, especially when they have invested in extra memory, which, apparently, these operating systems ignore. And the need to revamp an entire software wardrobe in shifting from one buggy version of Windows to another may make Bill Gates happy, but does little for the rest of us. Linux is a particu larly attractive alternative, in that it provides an integrated configuration and a wealth of interesting packages. As it gets easier to install Linux, it becomes more popular, so there are more people out there to whom you can tum for advice. This means it gets easier and simpler to install. Witness the number of books on installing and running Linux,2 even for people who have never used Unix. There is even a journal devoted exclusively to Linux. The Linux Jour 3 nal provides general coverage ofhardware and software issues, with timely articles, some ILinux is the Unix-type operating system, whose kernel was constructed by Linus Torvalds from scratch.
This comprehensive guide to using LaTeX is directed at Linux and UNIX users but is also the best how-to book on the use to LaTeX to prepare articles, books and theses. Unlike other LaTeX books it is especially useful for someone coming to LaTeX for the first time.
This comprehensive guide to using LaTeX is directed at Linux and UNIX users but is also the best how-to book on the use to LaTeX to prepare articles, books and theses. Unlike other LaTeX books it is especially useful for someone coming to LaTeX for the first time.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xxxi
Front Matter....Pages 1-2
What a Latex Command Does....Pages 3-6
Concepts: How Latex Operates on Text....Pages 7-19
Document Classes....Pages 21-36
Front Matter....Pages 37-37
Constructing practice.tex, A Practice File....Pages 39-44
Setting Emacs Keys for Common Constructions....Pages 45-53
Viewing and Printing Marked up Files....Pages 55-58
Dealing with Errors Recorded in the Log....Pages 59-69
Front Matter....Pages 71-72
Latex-Reserved Single-Character Commands....Pages 73-79
Single-word Instructions....Pages 81-94
Newcommands and Macros....Pages 95-109
Front Matter....Pages 111-113
Fonts....Pages 115-155
Accents, Dingbats, Standard and Nonstandard Codes....Pages 157-194
Manipulating Space....Pages 195-207
Lists....Pages 209-219
Aligning and Indenting Text....Pages 221-235
Floating Objects....Pages 237-271
Footnotes....Pages 273-286
Cross-Referencing....Pages 287-293
Literal Text and Silent Text....Pages 295-302
Front Matter....Pages 303-303
Math Symbols, Alphabets and Grammar....Pages 305-324
Front Matter....Pages 303-303
Single Line Math Modes....Pages 325-327
Arrays: Multi-Line Math Mode....Pages 329-335
Front Matter....Pages 337-338
Box Mode....Pages 339-367
Front Matter....Pages 369-370
Creating Pictures and Graphics....Pages 371-390
Inserting Completed Pictures and Graphics....Pages 391-420
Front Matter....Pages 421-421
Bibliographic References....Pages 423-432
Making a Table of Contents....Pages 433-436
Making an Index....Pages 437-442
Creating a Glossary....Pages 443-444
Front Matter....Pages 445-446
Measurements: Counters and Lengths....Pages 447-458
A Page Template....Pages 459-479
Creating a Style Sheet....Pages 481-503
Back Matter....Pages 505-568
This comprehensive guide to using LaTeX is directed at Linux and UNIX users but is also the best how-to book on the use to LaTeX to prepare articles, books and theses. Unlike other LaTeX books it is especially useful for someone coming to LaTeX for the first time.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xxxi
Front Matter....Pages 1-2
What a Latex Command Does....Pages 3-6
Concepts: How Latex Operates on Text....Pages 7-19
Document Classes....Pages 21-36
Front Matter....Pages 37-37
Constructing practice.tex, A Practice File....Pages 39-44
Setting Emacs Keys for Common Constructions....Pages 45-53
Viewing and Printing Marked up Files....Pages 55-58
Dealing with Errors Recorded in the Log....Pages 59-69
Front Matter....Pages 71-72
Latex-Reserved Single-Character Commands....Pages 73-79
Single-word Instructions....Pages 81-94
Newcommands and Macros....Pages 95-109
Front Matter....Pages 111-113
Fonts....Pages 115-155
Accents, Dingbats, Standard and Nonstandard Codes....Pages 157-194
Manipulating Space....Pages 195-207
Lists....Pages 209-219
Aligning and Indenting Text....Pages 221-235
Floating Objects....Pages 237-271
Footnotes....Pages 273-286
Cross-Referencing....Pages 287-293
Literal Text and Silent Text....Pages 295-302
Front Matter....Pages 303-303
Math Symbols, Alphabets and Grammar....Pages 305-324
Front Matter....Pages 303-303
Single Line Math Modes....Pages 325-327
Arrays: Multi-Line Math Mode....Pages 329-335
Front Matter....Pages 337-338
Box Mode....Pages 339-367
Front Matter....Pages 369-370
Creating Pictures and Graphics....Pages 371-390
Inserting Completed Pictures and Graphics....Pages 391-420
Front Matter....Pages 421-421
Bibliographic References....Pages 423-432
Making a Table of Contents....Pages 433-436
Making an Index....Pages 437-442
Creating a Glossary....Pages 443-444
Front Matter....Pages 445-446
Measurements: Counters and Lengths....Pages 447-458
A Page Template....Pages 459-479
Creating a Style Sheet....Pages 481-503
Back Matter....Pages 505-568
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