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Tables of Contents for Latex Line by Line
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface to the Second Edition
vii
Acknowledgements
xv
Why Use It?
1
6
Introduction
1
1
Quality of Output
1
1
Producing Mathematical Formulas
2
1
Producing Unusual Material
3
1
Decreasing Drudgery
4
3
Getting Started
7
14
Introduction
7
2
Latex Commands
9
3
General Structure of an Input File
12
2
Modes
14
2
Altering the Size of the Output Page
16
1
Defining your own Commands
16
1
Coping with Errors
17
4
Fancy Prose
21
10
Accents and Non-English Letters
21
1
Type-Changing Declarations and Commands
22
3
Declarations that Change the Size of Type
25
1
Punctuation Marks
26
3
Footnotes
29
2
List-like Environments
31
18
Introduction
31
1
The quote Environment
31
1
The quotation Environment
32
1
The verse Environment
33
1
The flushright, center and flushleft Environments
34
1
The itemize Environment
35
1
The Enumerate Environment
36
2
The description Environment
38
1
The thebibliography Environment
39
2
The newtheorem Command
41
3
The list and trivlist Environments
44
2
Environment Definition
46
3
Boxes and Tables
49
18
Boxes
49
2
The minipage Environment and \parbox
51
1
The tabular Environment
52
6
Floats
58
5
The tabbing Environment
63
2
The verbatim Environment
65
2
Making Bibliographies
67
12
Introduction
67
1
The Structure of a bib File
67
6
Authors, Titles and Abbreviations
73
2
Producing the Bibliography
75
2
The harvard Package
77
2
Making Indexes
79
4
The Hard Way
79
1
The Easy Way
80
2
Some Glossary Commands
82
1
Standard Document Classes
83
18
The article Document Class
83
6
The report Document Class
89
5
The book Document Class
94
1
The letter Document Class
95
3
The Slides Document Class
98
3
Basic Mathematical Formatting
101
16
Introduction
101
1
Decorating Expressions
102
5
Framing Formulas
107
1
Delimiters
108
4
Spacing in Mathematical Formulas
112
5
More Mathematical Formatting
117
12
The array Environment
117
8
Equation Arrays
125
4
Introducing AMS-LATEX
129
14
Some Deficiencies of Basic LATEX
129
1
The align and align* Environments
130
3
Non-numerical Labels
133
1
Explanatory Notes in Aligned Equations
134
1
Definition by Cases
135
1
Fraction-like Structures
136
2
Commutative Diagrams
138
5
Simple Diagrams
143
14
Introduction
143
4
Straight Lines
147
1
Disks and Circles
148
2
Arrows and Ovals
150
2
Saving and Reusing Boxes
152
2
Contract Bridge Diagrams
154
1
Bezier Curves
155
2
A Mathematical Symbols
157
14
Introduction
157
1
Ordinary Symbols
157
5
Unary Operators
162
2
Binary Operators
164
1
Binary Relation Symbols
165
4
Opening and Closing Symbols
169
1
Punctuation Symbols
170
1
B Useful Notions
171
6
Lengths and Length Parameters
171
2
Environments
173
1
Counters and Current \ref Values
173
1
Moving Arguments and Fragile Commands
174
3
C Glossary
177
92
D When Things go Wrong
269
4
Introduction
269
1
LATEX Error Messages
269
1
TEX Error Messages
270
1
LATEX Warning Messages
271
1
TEX Warning Messages
271
1
When all else Fails
272
1
E Differences
273
6
Introduction
273
1
Type-changing Declaration
274
1
Increased Functionality
275
1
Entirely New Commands
276
3
Bibliography
279
4
Index
283