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Title

Latex for Linux : a vade mecum / Bernice Sacks Lipkin.

Author

Lipkin, Bernice Sacks.

Publication

New York : Springer, c1999.

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Details

Description

xxxi, 568 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"LaTeX for Linux is a comprehensive introduction and guide to using LaTeX. While it is directed at Linux and UNIX users, it is also a first-rate how-to book on using LaTeX to prepare articles, books, and theses for users of any system that supports LaTeX. Unlike other LaTeX books, it is especially useful for someone coming to LaTeX for the first time. As Linux grows rapidly in popularity, more and more people looking to take advantage of the desktop publishing power of LaTeX - included with most Linux distributions - will find LaTeX for Linux a wonderful way to get started."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• LaTeX (Computer file)
• Linux
• Computerized typesetting
• Desktop publishing
• Document markup languages

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 525-532) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Part I. Reading LATEX 1 -- 1 What a LATEX Command Does 3 -- 2 Concepts: How LATEX Operates on Text 7 -- 2.1 Grammatical Elements 8 -- 2.2 Instructions to LATEX 9 -- 2.2.1 Commands 10 -- 2.2.2 Declarations 11 -- 2.2.3 Environments 12 -- 2.3 Basic Principles in Reading and Writing LATEX Commands 14 -- 2.4 The Scope of an Instruction 15 -- 2.5 LATEX Conventions 17 -- 3 Document Classes 21 -- 3.1 LATEX's Style of Styling Styles 21 -- 3.2 Format of a Very Simple LATEX File 23 -- 3.3 LATEX-defined Classes 23 -- 3.4 Slides 24 -- 3.5 Letters 25 -- 3.6 Articles 29 -- 3.7 Reports 30 -- 3.8 Books 30 -- 3.9 Document Class Options 32 -- 3.10 TOC Option 36 -- Part II. Preparatory Tasks 37 -- 4 Constructing practice.tex, a Practice File 39 -- 5 Setting Emacs Keys for Common Constructions 45 -- 5.1 Writing in Emacs 45 -- 5.2 A Font Shape Template 46 -- 5.3 A List Template 48 -- 5.4 A Verbatim Template 51 -- 5.5 A Macro Template 52 -- 5.6 A Logo Template 53 -- 6 Viewing and Printing Marked Up Files 55 -- 7 Dealing with Errors 59 -- 7.1 Real Errors 60 -- 7.2 Overfull and Underfull Lines and Pages 64 -- 7.2.1 The overfull line 64 -- 7.2.2 The underfull line 67 -- 7.2.3 The overfull page 67 -- 7.2.4 The underfull page 68 -- 7.2.5 Other alerts 68 -- Part III. Writing LATEX 71 -- 8 LATEX-Reserved Single-Character Commands 73 -- 8.1 Single-Character Command Symbols 73 -- 8.2 Writing Special Symbols As Ordinary Text 75 -- 8.3 Writing Aliases For Single Character Commands 77 -- 8.4 Meta Level Mimicking Of Text Commands 78 -- 9 Single-Word Instructions 81 -- 9.1 Font Features 81 -- 9.2 Commands 83 -- 9.2.1 The LATEX repertoire of commands 84 -- 9.2.2 User-created new commands 87 -- 9.3 Declarations 88 -- 9.4 Environments 89 -- 9.4.1 Using an environment whose name is a defined declaration 90 -- 9.4.2 Constructing an environment from an existing environment 91 -- 9.4.3 Creating environments from scratch 92 -- 9.4.4 Trouble spots in creating a new environment 93 -- 10 Newcommands and Macros 95 -- 10.1 What a Macro Is 95 -- 10.2 Exact Substitution 95 -- 10.3 PlaceHolder Substitution 96 -- 10.3.1 Composing the macro 97 -- 10.3.2 Using the macro 98 -- 10.3.3 Revising a macro definition 99 -- 10.4 Using LATEX Instructions in the Macro 99 -- 10.4.1 Commands in the macro argument 99 -- 10.4.2 Declarations in the macro argument 100 -- 10.4.3 Environments and macros 101 -- 10.5 Incorporating a Macro in a Macro 103 -- 10.6 The Complete Newcommand Format 104 -- 10.7 Trouble Spots in Writing Macros 107 -- 10.8 The Complete Newenvironment Format 108 -- Part IV. Formatting in Text Mode 111 -- 11 Fonts 115 -- 11.1 Font Terminology 116 -- 11.2 Commands/Declarations That Control Font Features 118 -- 11.2.1 Manipulating font family, series and shapes 118 -- 11.2.2 Font sizes 121 -- 11.2.3 Changing both font size and type style 123 -- 11.3 Naming Conventions for Fonts 123 -- 11.3.1 Classic TEX fonts 123 -- 11.3.2 Using NFSS to classify names 125 -- 11.3.3 Fonts supplied with LATEX 130 -- 11.4 The Directory Structure for Storing Fonts 133 -- 11.5 To Load a New Font 134 -- 11.5.1 Why load yet another font? 134 -- 11.5.2 To change the main font family for the entire document 135 -- 11.5.3 To load an additional font from NFSS descriptors 139 -- 11.5.4 The main font and the selectfont font 145 -- 11.5.5 Behind the scenes in loading and using a font 146 -- 12 Accents, Dingbats, Standard and Nonstandard Codes 157 -- 12.1 The Fonts on Disk 159 -- 12.1.1 Naming font files 159 -- 12.1.2 Directory names 160 -- 12.1.3 To view and use a font table 161 -- 12.2 The Standard ASCII Codes 164 -- 12.2.1 Built-In letter accents 167 -- 12.2.2 Trademarks and registries 168 -- 12.3 Nonstandard Coding Tables 170 -- 12.3.1 Dingbats 172 -- 12.3.2 Saint Mary Road symbol fonts 174 -- 12.3.3 European Computer Modern text fonts 177 -- 12.3.4 text companion symbols 178 -- 12.3.5 Math symbol fonts 179 -- 12.3.6 wasy symbol fonts 181 -- 12.4 Nonstandard Sizes: Banners, Posters And Spreads 182 -- 13 Manipulating Space 195 -- 13.1 Adding a Small Amount of Space Between Characters/Words 195 -- 13.2 Adding Significant Space Between Words 197 -- 13.3 Adding Space Between Sentences 200 -- 13.4 Adding Space Between Two Lines 201 -- 13.4.1 Using \\ [length] 201 -- 13.4.2 Using the \vspace command 202 -- 13.4.3 Using fixed size vertical skips 203 -- 13.4.4 Filling vertical space up to what's needed 204 -- 13.4.5 The /par command 205 -- 13.5 Changing the Permanent Spacing Between Lines 205 -- 13.6 Adding a Blank Line Between Paragraphs 205 -- 13.7 Adding Permanent Space Between Paragraphs 206 -- 13.8 Double Spacing a Draft Copy 206 -- 14 Lists 209 -- 14.1 The Itemize List 210 -- 14.2 The Enumerate List 212 -- 14.3 The Description List 214 -- 14.4 Other Description List Styles 216 -- 14.5 The Trivlist Environment 219 -- 15 Aligning and Indenting Text 221 -- 15.1 Aligning the Text Horizontally 221 -- 15.2 Raising Text 223 -- 15.3 Outdenting 224 -- 15.4 Breaking Single Lines on the Right 225 -- 15.5 Creating an Outline 226 -- 15.6 Using Displayed Paragraph Formats 228 -- 15.6.1 Quotation and quote environments 228 -- 15.6.2 Verse environment 229 -- 15.6.3 Center environment 230 -- 15.6.4 An ordinary description list 231 -- 15.7 Simple Paragraph Indenting 232 -- 15.8 Controlling the Degree of Indentation 232 -- 16 Floating Objects 237 -- 16.1.1 General format 237 -- 16.1.2 Usage 239 -- 16.1.3 Subfigures 242 -- 16.1.4 Working text around a figure 243 -- 16.1.5 Creating new float styles 250 -- 16.1.6 Captions 251 -- 16.2 Marginal Notes 252 -- 16.3.1 Tabs 254 -- 16.3.2 The tabular environment 258 -- 16.3.3 Floats and multiple columns 270 -- 17.1 Footnotes in Text 273 -- 17.1.1 Footnote syntax in text 274 -- 17.1.2 Shifting between numbers and symbols 275 -- 17.1.3 Numbering by symbol 275 -- 17.1.4 Resetting the counter 276 -- 17.1.5 Examples of numbering styles 277 -- 17.2 Footnotes in a Minipage 279 -- 17.2.1 Minipage footnotes with independent numbering 279 -- 17.2.2 Blending minipage and text footnotes 281 -- 17.3 Changing Footnote Style 284 -- 17.4 Footnote Modification Packages 285 -- 18 Cross-Referencing 287 -- 18.1 Referencing Numbered LATEX Objects 287 -- 18.2 Page References 289 -- 18.3 Referencing Footnotes 290 -- 18.4 Positioning the Label 291 -- 18.4.1 The LATEX object is stylized 291 -- 18.4.2 The LATEX object is not stylized 292 -- 19 Literal Text and Silent Text 295 -- 19.1 Verbatim Text 295 -- 19.2 Writing Notes To Yourself 299 -- 19.2.1 Using the % 299 -- 19.2.2 Invisible reminders 299 -- 19.2.3 Visible reminders 300 -- 19.2.4 The LATEX /typeout and /typein commands 301 -- Part V. Formatting in Math Mode 303 -- 20 Math Symbols, Alphabets and Grammar 305 -- 20.1 Built-in Symbols 306 -- 20.1.1 Greek letters, booleans, integrals and sums 306 -- 20.1.2 Some common mathematical operators 307 -- 20.1.3 Math accents 308 -- 20.1.4 Adding ordinary text in math mode 309 -- 20.2 Modifying the Appearance of Equations 310 -- 20.2.1 Changing math type style 310 -- 20.2.2 Space wedges 312 -- 20.2.3 Size 313 -- 20.2.4 Creating a New Math Alphabet Command Name 315 -- 20.2.5 Adding Math Symbols 318 -- 20.3 Writing, Protecting and Revising Math Macros 320 -- 20.3.1 Writing a math macro 320 -- 20.3.2 Redefining the math macro 321 -- 20.4 Lemmas, Axioms and Conjectures 322 -- 21 Single Line Math Modes 325 -- 21.1 Unnumbered Equation in Running Text 325 -- 21.2 displaymath for a Single Unnumbered Equation 326 -- 21.3 A Numbered Equation on a Separate Line 327 -- 22 Arrays: Multi-Line Math Mode 329 -- 22.1 Creating an Array 329 -- Part VI. Formatting in Box Mode 337 -- 23 Box Mode 339 -- 23.1 The Single Line Box: \makebox, \framebox 340 -- 23.1.1 The \makebox and \mbox commands 340 -- 23.1.2 \framebox and \fbox commands 341 -- 23.1.3 Changing the appearance of the frame 342 -- 23.1.4 Fancy frames 344 -- 23.2 The Paragraph Box: Parboxes and Minipages 345 -- 23.2.1 The parbox 345 -- 23.2.2 The minipage environment 348 -- 23.2.3 Framing the minipage 354 -- 23.3 The Inked Rectangle: The Rulebox 356 -- 23.3.1 Solid boxes 356 -- 23.3.2 Struts 358 -- 23.4 Sizing the Box in Relative Terms 358 -- 23.5 Saving Designs 362 -- Part VII. Enhancements to the Text 369 -- 24 Creating Pictures and Graphics 371 -- 24.1 Creating Pictures in LATEX 371 -- 24.1.1 Positioning the picture 372 -- 24.1.2 Picture commands 372 -- 24.1.3 Additional graphics packages 374 -- 24.2 The xv Package 376 -- 24.3 The XFig Package 379 -- 24.4 The XPaint Package 382 -- 24.5 ImageMagick 382 -- 24.6 GIMP 386 -- 24.7 Packages for Ready Money 388 -- 25 Inserting Completed Pictures and Graphics 391 -- 25.1 Step 1: Linking the Printer Driver and graphicx 392 -- 25.2 Step 2: Size Information in the EPS File 393 -- 25.2.1 The BoundingBox 394 -- 25.2.2 The calc package 396 -- 25.3 Step 3: Using the /includegraphics Command 398 -- 25.4 //includegraphics Options 401 -- 25.4.1 Resetting the BoundingBox 402 -- 25.4.2 viewport: resetting the part of the picture to exhibit 403 -- 25.4.3 Resetting exhibition width 403 -- 25.4.4 Resetting exhibition height 404 -- 25.4.5 Scaling: another way to reset size 404 -- 25.4.6 Resetting exhibition orientation 405 -- 25.4.7 The interaction between size and orientation 408.

ISBN

0387987088 (softcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^98051994^

OCLC

40395671

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library