The LaTeX companion
Michel Goossens, Frank Mittelbach, Alexander Samarin
Résumé
Summary of contents
- Part 1: introduction - a short history of (La)TeX, LaTeX and it's components, the concept of generic markup, necessity of layout markup
- the structure of LaTeX document - the structure of a source file, logical structure, sectioning commands, structure of the table of contents, managing references
- basic formatting tools - phrases and paragraphs, list structures, simulating typed text, footnotes and endnotes, using multiple columns, miscellaneous
- the layout of the page - geometrical dimensions of the layout, changing the layout, page styles
- tabular material - comparing the tabbing and tabular environments, using the tabbing environment, introducing the tabular environment, multi-page tabular material, bells and whistles, applications
- mastering floats - understanding float parameters, float - creating new float types, different kinds of floating environment, customing your captions
- font selection - introduction to NFSS, understanding font characteristics, using fonts in text, using fonts in math, standard style options, the low-level interface, setting up new fonts, warning and error messages
- higher mathematics - the AMS-LaTeX project, font and symbols in formulas, compound symbols, delimiters and operators, matrix-like environments and commutative diagrams, alignment structures for equations, miscellaneous, examples of multiple-line equation structures, extensions to the theorem environment, mathematical style parameters
- LaTeX in a multilingual environment - TeX and non-English languages, Babel - LaTeX speaks multiple languages, implementing typographic rules
- portable graphics in LaTeX - Ornaments, the picture environment, enhancements to the picture style - epic, style files based on epic, extending the epic style
- using PostScript - PostScript, a language to describe test and graphics, dvips - a dvi to PostScript converter, merging text and graphics (PostScript) via dvips, rotating material, using revision bars, boxing and gray shading, color output, overlaying text on the output page, the NFSS revisited, DCPS - the cork encoding with PostScript fonts
- index generation - syntax of the index entries, preparing the index, running the MakeIndex program, customizing the index, modifying the layout
- bibliography generation - entering the citations, using BIBTeX with LaTeX, multiple bibliographies in one document, bibliography database management tools, the general format of the Bib file, detailed description of the entries, understanding BIBTeX styles, introducing small changes in a style file
- LaTeX style file documentation tools - documenting style files, the user interface for DOC style, the DOCSTRIP utility, an example of an installation procedure
- Appendices: a LaTeX overview - linking markup and formatting, page markup - several kinds of boxes, calc-arithmetic calculations, advanced control structures
- TeX archive sites - the main TeX internet sites, mail servers, distributing diskettes
L'auteur - Michel Goossens
Michel Goossens is Past President of the TeX Users Group (TUG) and a coauthor of The LaTeX Companion and The LaTeX Graphics Companion. A research physicist at CERN, where the Web paradigm was born, he is responsible for LaTeX, HTML, SGML, and, more recently, XML support for scientific documents.
L'auteur - Frank Mittelbach
Frank Mittelbach is Manager of the LaTeX3 Project, in which capacity he oversaw the release of LaTeX 2e. He, is a coauthor of The LaTeX Companion, as well as the editor of a series of publications on Tools and Techniques for Computer Typesetting.
Caractéristiques techniques
| PAPIER | |
| Éditeur(s) | Addison Wesley |
| Auteur(s) | Michel Goossens, Frank Mittelbach, Alexander Samarin |
| Parution | 31/08/1993 |
| Nb. de pages | 400 |
| EAN13 | 9780201541991 |
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