LATEX Notes: Practical Tips for Preparing Technical Documents

Contents......Page 4
Preface......Page 10
 1.2 Accents and Special Symbols......Page 14
 1.4 Font Styles......Page 15
  1.5.1 Changing the Size of a Font......Page 16
  1.5.3 Style and Size Availability......Page 17
  1.5.4 Ligatures......Page 18
  1.6.1 Specifying a Particular Font Character......Page 19
  1.6.2 Nonstandard Fonts in Math Mode......Page 20
 1.7 Really Large Fonts......Page 21
  1.8.3 Smiley Faces......Page 22
 1.9 The New Font Selection Scheme (NFSS)......Page 23
 2.1 Microspacing Adjustments for Text......Page 24
 2.3 Document Line Spacing......Page 25
 2.4 Hyphenation......Page 26
  2.4.4 Turning Hyphenation Off......Page 27
  2.5.2 Ragged Right with Hyphenation......Page 28
 2.7 Consistent Underlining......Page 29
  2.8.1 Variable Space......Page 30
 2.9 Text in Boxes......Page 31
  2.9.1 Right-justifying a Box......Page 32
  2.9.3 A Macro for Indentation......Page 33
  2.10.1 Itemized List......Page 34
  2.10.2 Enumerated Lists......Page 36
  2.11.1 Examples of the List Environment......Page 37
  2.11.2 Creating a New List Environment......Page 39
  2.11.3 Example List Environments......Page 40
 2.12 The Verbatim Environment......Page 41
 3.1 Page Layout......Page 43
 3.2 Headers and Footers......Page 45
  3.2.2 A Head and Foot Macro......Page 46
  3.2.3 More Elaborate Headers and Footers......Page 47
 3.4 Widows and Orphans......Page 48
 3.6 Floats......Page 49
  3.6.2 Keeping a Group of Tables or Figures Together......Page 50
  3.6.4 Putting Many Floats on a Page......Page 51
  3.7.2 Spanning Both Columns......Page 52
  3.7.5 Marginal Notes......Page 54
 4.2 Composing Math Expressions......Page 55
  4.4.1 Simple Equations......Page 59
  4.4.3 Multiline and Multiple Equations......Page 60
 4.6 Text in Eqnarray......Page 61
 4.7 Vertical Spacing With Struts......Page 62
  4.8.2 Displaystyle in Eqnarrays and Arrays......Page 63
 4.10 Equations With Left and Right Tags......Page 64
 4.12 Roman Font in Math Mode......Page 65
 4.13 Boldface in Math Mode......Page 66
 4.14 A Better Dot Product Operator......Page 67
 4.16 Matrix Expressions......Page 68
 4.17 Continued Fractions......Page 69
 4.19 Placing Frames around Equations......Page 70
 4.21 Math in Section Titles......Page 72
 5.1 Types of Tables......Page 73
 5.2 The tabbing Environment......Page 74
  5.2.1 An Instructional Example......Page 75
 5.3 The tabular Environment......Page 77
  5.3.2 Vertical Alignment of Tables Headings......Page 80
  5.3.3 A Simple Floating Table Example......Page 81
  5.3.4 Tables in a Minipage......Page 82
  5.3.5 Side-by-Side Tables......Page 84
  5.3.6 Vertical Alignment of Column Entries......Page 85
  5.3.8 Controlling Spacing in Tables......Page 86
 5.4 TABLE Macros......Page 87
  5.4.1 Using the TABLE Macros......Page 88
  6.1.1 Cut and Paste......Page 93
  6.1.3 Extend LATEX\'s picture Capabilities......Page 94
  6.1.5 Use Non-IATEX Graphics......Page 95
 6.2 The Picture Environment......Page 96
  6.2.1 Summary of Picture Commands......Page 97
  6.2.2 Reusing Picture Elements......Page 101
 6.3 Extending the picture Environment......Page 102
  6.4.1 A GNUPLOT Example......Page 103
  6.5.1 Importing PCL Graphics Files......Page 105
  6.5.2 Importing PostScript Graphic Files......Page 111
  6.6.2 More General Graphic Conversion Programs......Page 116
  6.6.3 Creating PostScript Graphics with PSTricks......Page 117
 7.1 The Root File......Page 118
 7.2 Macros in the Preamble......Page 120
 7.4 Front Matter......Page 121
  7.4.3 Table of Contents......Page 122
  7.4.5 Adding Entries to Contents, Tables, and Figures Lists......Page 123
  7.4.7 Reformatting the Table of Contents......Page 124
  7.6.1 Footnotes in a Heading......Page 125
 7.7 Cross References......Page 126
  7.8.1 The Bibliography List......Page 127
 7.9 References and Citations in Captions......Page 128
 7.10 Making an Index......Page 129
  7.10.1 Doing It Yourself......Page 130
  7.10.2 The MAKEINDEX Program......Page 131
 8.1 Finding and Obtaining Style Files......Page 133
 8.2 Verbatim Text from an External File......Page 134
 8.3 Captions with Hanging Indents......Page 135
 8.4 More Flexible Numbering of Equations......Page 136
  8.4.3 The eqalignno Environment......Page 137
  8.4.6 The subequations Environment......Page 138
 8.5 Wrapping Text around a Figure: I......Page 139
 8.6 Wrapping Text around a Figure: II......Page 140
  8.7.1 Simple Use......Page 142
  8.7.5 Headers and Footers for Even and Odd Pages......Page 143
  8.7.8 Section Titles in the Headers and Footers......Page 144
  8.8.1 Fancy Boxes......Page 146
  8.8.2 Large Frames......Page 147
  8.9.1 The User Interface......Page 148
  8.9.2 Balancing Columns......Page 149
  8.9.4 Warnings......Page 150
9 Macros and Miscellaneous Tricks......Page 151
  9.1.1 Defining New Commands......Page 152
  9.1.2 Some Commands Used in Macros......Page 154
  9.2.1 Macro for Side-by-Side Displays......Page 155
  9.2.2 Underlining and Striking out Text......Page 156
  9.2.3 San Serif Section Headings......Page 157
  9.2.4 Outdenting Headings......Page 158
  9.2.6 New Environment for Indentation of Text......Page 159
  9.3.1 Changing the Caption Font Size and Width......Page 160
  9.3.2 Changing the Style of the Caption Label......Page 161
  9.3.3 Changing Figure to Fig.......Page 162
  9.4.1 Page Numbering with \"chapter-page\"......Page 163
  9.4.3 Numbering Equations as \"(Section.Equation)\"......Page 164
  9.5.2 Equal Spacing in Equations and Eqnarrays......Page 165
  9.5.3 Math Macro for Over- and UnderBrackets......Page 166
  9.6.3 Bibliographies at Chapter Ends......Page 168
  9.6.4 Macro for Endnotes......Page 169
Appendix A: Symbols Available in Math Mode......Page 172
Appendix B: Format Parameters......Page 176
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