Guide to LaTeX

by Helmut Kopka, Patrick W. Daly

LaTeX is the text-preparation system of choice for scientists and academics, and is especially useful for typesetting technical materials. This popular book shows you how to begin using LaTeX to create high-quality documents. The book also serves as a handy reference of all LaTeX users. In this completely revised edition, the authors cover the LaTeX2[subscript [epsilon]] standard and offer more details, examples, exercises, tips, and tricks. They go beyond the core installation to describe the key contributed packages that have become essential to LaTeX processing.

Genres: Reference, Programming, Computers, Nonfiction, Computer Science, Writing, Technical

964 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 30, 1992

Reviews

[Waqar Saleem · Rating 4 out of 5]

While excellent online resources make any printed, non-free guide to Latex such as this book quite obsolete, I must say that it was through this book that I first came to grips with Latex. That being said, this book is by no means a beginners book only. Having now used Latex for more than 2 years, I have often found myself returning to this book as a reference whenever I require some advanced functionality, e.g nested tables, figure placement, that I could not easily find documentation on over the Internet.

I would recommend this book to anyone who wants a one stop reference for Latex. It will help you up through your Latex infancy and prove a worthy companion as your expertise grows.

[Ira Burton · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is a must have for anybody who does LaTeX type setting for any purpose. While most (all?) of the information is available online, having it all in one compact and mobile tome is worth every penny this book costs.

[John · Rating 5 out of 5]

I was a programmer writing papers in college and wanting to use my Linux machine for everything, so I learned LaTeX -- the results were always beautifully typeset, and this book taught me everything I needed to know. The print copy of my resume is still done in LaTeX.

[Nick Black · Rating 2 out of 5]

I can never find a damn thing in this book. I know precious little more LaTeX, it feels, having read it than I did before.

[Darin]

This book provides good, broad coverage of the features available in LaTeX. It can answer most of the questions that occur on a day-to-day basis when using LaTeX.

[Bruno Fernandes · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good as a reference, not for learning.

[Logan · Rating 5 out of 5]

I can't help myself: I find I refer back to this book constantly. It covers nearly everything I've needed, very succinctly, with great examples.

[Dave Peticolas · Rating 3 out of 5]

If you ever have need to use the quirky document preparation program latex, this book is a good reference to have.