LaTeX -- Table of Contents -- LaTeX -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers, and more -- Why Subscribe? -- Free Access for Packt account holders -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Time for action - heading -- What just happened? -- Pop quiz -- Have a go hero - heading -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Downloading the example code -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Getting Started with LaTeX -- What is LaTeX? -- How we can benefit -- The virtues of open source -- Separation of form and content -- Portability -- Protection for your work -- Comparing it to word processor software -- What are the challenges? -- Installing LaTeX -- Time for action - installing TeX Live using the net installer wizard -- What just happened? -- Time for action - installing TeX Live offline -- What just happened? -- Installation on other operating systems -- Creating our first document -- Time for action - writing our first document with TeXworks -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - checking out advanced LaTeX editors -- Summary -- 2. Formatting Words, Lines, and Paragraphs -- Understanding logical formatting -- Time for action - titling your document -- What just happened? -- Exploring the document structure -- Understanding LaTeX commands -- How LaTeX reads your input -- Time for action - trying out the effect of spaces, line breaks, and empty lines -- What just happened? -- Commenting your source text -- Printing out special symbols -- Time for action - writing special characters in our text -- What just happened? -- Formatting text - fonts, shapes, and styles -- Time for action - tuning the font shape -- What just happened? -- Choosing the font family.

Time for action - switching to sans-serif and to typewriter fonts -- What just happened? -- Switching fonts -- Time for action - switching the font family -- What just happened? -- Summarizing font commands and declarations -- Delimiting the effect of commands -- Time for action - exploring grouping by braces -- What just happened? -- Time for action - exploring font sizes -- What just happened? -- Using environments -- Time for action - using an environment to adjust the font size -- What just happened? -- Saving time and effort - creating your own commands -- Time for action - creating our first command using it as anabbreviation -- What just happened? -- Gentle spacing after commands -- Time for action - adding intelligent spacing to command output -- What just happened? -- Creating more universal commands - using arguments -- Time for action - creating a macro for formatting keywords -- What just happened? -- Using optional arguments -- Time for action - marking keywords with optional formatting -- What just happened? -- Pop quiz - commands -- Have a go hero - saving effort using optional arguments -- Using boxes to limit the width of paragraphs -- Time for action - creating a narrow text column -- What just happened? -- Common paragraph boxes -- Have a go hero - exploring further features of \parbox -- Boxes containing more text -- Time for action - using the minipage environment -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - creating a footnote inside a minipage -- Understanding environments -- Breaking lines and paragraphs -- Improving hyphenation -- Time for action - stating division points for words -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - exploiting the hyphenat package -- Improving the justification further -- Time for action - using microtype -- What just happened? -- Breaking lines manually -- Time for action - using line breaks.

What just happened? -- Have a go hero - exploring line breaking options -- Preventing line breaks -- Managing line breaks wisely -- Exploring the fine details -- Time for action - exploring ligatures -- What just happened? -- Understanding ligatures -- Choosing the right dash -- Setting dots -- Time for action - using differently spaced dots -- What just happened? -- Time for action - comparing dots to ellipsis -- What just happened? -- Setting accents -- Time for action - experimenting with accents -- What just happened? -- Using special characters directly in the editor -- Time for action - using accents directly -- What just happened? -- Turning off full justification -- Time for action - justifying a paragraph to the left -- What just happened? -- Creating ragged-left text -- Time for action - centering a title -- What just happened? -- Using environments for justification -- Time for action - centering verses -- What just happened? -- Displaying quotes -- Time for action - quoting a scientist -- What just happened? -- Quoting longer text -- Time for action - quoting TeX's benefits -- What just happened? -- Time for action - spacing between paragraphs instead of indentation -- What just happened? -- Pop quiz - lines and paragraphs -- Summary -- 3. Designing Pages -- Defining the overall layout -- Time for action - writing a book with chapters -- What just happened? -- Reviewing LaTeX's default page layout -- Defining the margins yourself -- Time for action - specifying margins -- What just happened? -- Using the geometry package -- Choosing the paper size -- Specifying the text area -- Setting the margins -- Obtaining package documentation -- Time for action - finding the geometry package manual -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - constructing the page layout with typearea -- Changing the line spacing.

Time for action - increasing line spacing -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - examining a package source file -- Using class options to configure the document style -- Time for action - creating a two-column landscape document -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - trying KOMA-Script classes -- Creating a table of contents -- Time for action - adding a table of contents -- What just happened? -- Sectioning and the contents -- Time for action - shortening the table of content entries -- What just happened? -- Designing headers and footers -- Time for action - customizing headers with the fancyhdr package -- What just happened? -- Understanding page styles -- Customizing header and footer -- Using decorative lines in header or footer -- Changing LaTeX's header marks -- Breaking pages -- Time for action - inserting page breaks -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - exploring page breaking options -- Enlarging a page -- Time for action - sparing an almost empty page -- What just happened? -- Using footnotes -- Time for action - using footnotes in text and in headings -- What just happened? -- Modifying the dividing line -- Time for action - redefining the footnote line -- What just happened? -- Using packages to expand footnote styles -- Pop quiz -- Summary -- 4. Creating Lists -- Building a bulleted list -- Time for action - listing LaTeX packages -- What just happened? -- Nesting lists -- Time for action - listing packages by topic -- What just happened? -- Creating a numbered list -- Time for action - writing a step-by-step tutorial -- What just happened? -- Customizing lists -- Saving space with compact lists -- Time for action - shrinking our tutorial -- What just happened? -- Choosing bullets and numbering format -- Time for action - modifying lists using enumitem -- What just happened? -- Suspending and continuing lists.

Producing a definition list -- Time for action - explaining capabilities of packages -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - adjusting the dimensions of lists -- Pop quiz -- Summary -- 5. Creating Tables and Inserting Pictures -- Writing in columns -- Time for action - lining up information using the tabbing environment -- What just happened? -- Time for action - lining up font commands -- What just happened? -- Typesetting tables -- Time for action - building a table of font family commands -- What just happened? -- Drawing lines in tables -- Understanding formatting arguments -- Increasing the row height -- Beautifying tables -- Time for action - adding nicer horizontal lines with the booktabs package -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - adjusting lengths -- Spanning entries over multiple columns -- Time for action - merging cells -- What just happened? -- Inserting code column-wise -- Time for action - using the array package -- What just happened? -- Spanning entries over multiple rows -- Time for action - merging cells using the multirow package -- What just happened? -- Adding captions to tables -- Time for action - adding a caption to our font table -- What just happened? -- Placing captions above -- Have a go hero - customizing captions -- Auto-fitting columns to the table width -- Generating multi-page tables -- Coloring tables -- Using landscape orientation -- Aligning columns at the decimal point -- Handling narrow columns -- Pop quiz - tables -- Inserting pictures -- Time for action - including a picture -- What just happened? -- Scaling pictures -- Choosing the optimal file type -- Including whole pages -- Putting images behind the text -- Managing floating environments -- Time for action - letting a figure float -- What just happened? -- Understanding float placement options -- Forcing the output of floats -- Limiting floating.

Avoiding floating at all.