A Guide To Latex. Document Preparation For Beginners And Advanced Users, 3rd Edition - Couverture souple

Kopka, Helmut; Daly, Patrick-W

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0201398257 ISBN 13 : 9780201398250

Editeur : Pearson Education Limited, 1999

Synopsis

Book by Kopka Helmut Daly Patrick W

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Quatrième de couverture

If you are a user with little or no experience of computes or text formatting and you want to master LATEX to produce documents of high quality, ten this book is essential reading. Fully revised to cover the most up-to-date versions of LATEX this accessible and practical tutorial contains all of the information you will need to get up and running with LATEX, and is an essential reference tool to users at all levels.  This book will enable you to:  -Master the basics of LATEX and explore more advanced topics including user-defined extensions  -Get up to speed with the latest LATEX extensions for adaptations to other languages  -Explore numerous practical examples and pick up handy tips for avoiding common problems  -Benefit from detailed appendices including the Command Summary and Summary Tables  New to this edition:  -Completely updated to cover the latest releases and upgrades of LATEX  -Covers new features including graphics importation and PostScript font installation  -Section on LATEX and the World Wide Web  -Section on LATEX on Windows & Windows NT  -Section on installations for 32 bit PCs

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pearson Education Limited
• Date d'édition: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0201398257
• ISBN 13: 9780201398250
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Numéro d'édition: 3
• Nombre de pages: 616