The Latex companion (inc. CD-Rom) (2nd Ed.)
Tools and Techniques for Computer Typesetting

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The LaTeX Companion has long been the essential resource for anyone using LaTeX to create high-quality printed documents. This completely updated edition brings you all the latest information about LaTeX and the vast range of add-on packages now available, over 200 are covered. Full of new tips and tricks for using LaTeX in both traditional and modern typesetting, this book will also show you how to customize layout features to your own needs, from phrases and paragraphs to headings, lists, and pages. New to this edition: Nearly 1,000 fully tested examples that illustrate the text and solve typographical and technical problems--all ready to run.An additional chapter on citations and bibliographies. Expanded material on the setup and use of fonts to access a huge collection of glyphs, and to typeset text from a wide range of languages and cultures. Major new packages for graphics, "verbatim" listings, floats, and page layout. Full coverage of the latest packages for all types of documents, mathematical, multilingual, and many more. Detailed help on all error messages, including those troublesome low-level TeX errors.
List of Figures. List of Tables. Preface. 1. Introduction.
A brief history.
All those files.
Working with this book. 2. The Structure of a LaTeX Document.
The structure of a source file.
Sectioning commands.
Table of contents structures.
Managing references. 3. Basic Formatting Tools.
Phrases and paragraphs.
Footnotes, endnotes, and marginals.
List structures.
Simulating typed text.
Lines and columns. 4. The Layout of the Page.
Geometrical dimensions of the layout.
Changing the layout.
Dynamic page data: page numbers and marks.
Page styles.
Visual formatting.
Doing layout with class. 5. Tabular Material.
Standard LaTeX environments.
array--Extending the tabular Environments.
Calculating column widths.
Multipage tabular material.
Color in tables.
Customising table rules and spacing.
Further extensions.
Footnotes in tabular material.
Applications. 6. Mastering Floats.
Understanding float parameters.
Float placement control.
Extensions to LaTeX's float concept.
Inline floats.
Controlling the float caption. 7. Fonts and Encodings.
Introduction.
Understanding font characteristics.
Using fonts in text.
Using fonts in math.
Standard LaTeX font support.
PSNFSS--PostScript fonts with LaTeX.
A collection of font packages.
The LaTeX world of symbols.
The low-level interface.
Setting up new fonts.
LaTeX's encoding models.
Compatibility packages for very old documents. 8. Higher Mathematics.
Introduction to AMS-LaTeX.
Display and alignment structures for equations.
Matrix-like environments.
Compound symbols, delimiters, and operators.
Variable symbol commands.
Words in mathematics.
Fine tuning mathematical layout.
Fonts in formulas.
Symbols in formulas. 9. LaTeX in a Multilingual Environment.
TeX and non-English languages.
The babel user interface.
User commands provided by language options.
Support for non-Latin alphabets.
Tailoring babel.
Other approaches. 10. Graphics Generation and Manipulation.
Producing portable graphics and ornaments.
LaTeX's device-dependent graphics support.
Manipulating graphical objects in LaTeX.
Display languages: PostScript, PDF, SVG. 11. Index Generation.
Syntax of the index entries.
makeindex--A program to format and sort indices.
xindy--An alternative to MakeIndex.
Enhancing the index with LaTeX features. 12. Managing Citations.
Introduction.
The number-only system.
The author-date system.
The author-number system.
The short-title system.
Multiple bibliographies in one document. 13. Bibliography Generation.
The BibTeX program and some variants.
The BibTeX database format.
Online bibliographies.
Bibliography database management tools.
Formatting the bibliography with BibTeX styles.
The BibTeX style language. 14. LaTeX Package Documentation Tools.
doc--Documenting LaTeX and other code.
docstrip.tex--Producing ready-to-run code.
ltxdoc--A simple LaTeX documentation class.
Making use of version control tools. A. A LaTeX Overview for Preamble, Package, and Class Writers.
Linking markup and formatting.
Page markup--Boxes and rules.
Control structure extensions.
Package and class file structure. B. Tracing and resolving problems.