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Chapter 1
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Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
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Contents
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Preface v
1 Things You Need to Know 1
2 Typesetting Text 15
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3 Typesetting Mathematical Formulae 43
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4 Specialities 73
5 Producing Mathematical Graphics 89
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6 Customising L
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A Installing L
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Bibliography 125
Index 128
List of Figures
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List of Tables
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Chapter 1
Things You Need to Know
The first part of this chapter presents a short overview of the philosophy and
history of L
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X 2
ε
. The second part focuses on the basic structures of a L
A
T
E
X
document. After reading this chapter, you should have a rough knowledge of
how L
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T
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X works, which you will need to understand the rest of this book.
1.1 A Bit of History
1.1.1 T
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TeX
I do not get angry when people pronounce T
E
X in their favorite way
… and in Germany many use a soft ch because the X follows the vowel e, not the harder ch
that follows the vowel a. In Russia, ‘tex’ is a very common word, pronounced ‘tyekh’. But I
believe the most proper pronunciation is heard in Greece, where you have the harsher ch of
ach and Loch.
2 Things You Need to Know
1.1.2 L
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T
E
X
LaTeX
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LaTeX2e
1.2 Basics
1.2.1 Author, Book Designer, and Typesetter
MS Word LibreOffice
1.2.2 Layout Design
1.2 Basics 3
logical
1.2.3 Advantages and Disadvantages
The L
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4 Things You Need to Know
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1.3 L
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X Input Files
1.3.1 Spaces
Several consecutive
one
Several one
It does not matter whether you
enter one or several spaces
after a word.
An empty line starts a new
paragraph.
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E
X Input Files 5
1.3.2 Special Characters
# $ % ^ & _ { } ~ \
\# \$ \% \^{} \& \_ \{ \} \~{}
\textbackslash
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\\
\textbackslash
1.3.3 L
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X Commands
\
{}
{}
New \TeX users may miss whitespaces
after a command. % renders wrong
Experienced \TeX{} users are
\TeX perts, and know how to use
whitespaces. % renders correct
{ }
6 Things You Need to Know
[ ]
\command[optional parameter]{parameter}
You can \textsl{lean} on me!
lean
Please, start a new line
right here!\newline
Thank you!
1.3.4 Comments
%
This is an % stupid
% Better: instructive <----
example: Supercal%
ifragilist%
icexpialidocious
%
comment
verbatim \usepackage{verbatim}
This is another
\begin{comment}
rather stupid,
but helpful
\end{comment}
example for embedding
comments in your document.
1.4 Input </