Ⅰ Basics

1 Introduction

1.1 Just what is LATEX？

1.2 Markup Languages

1.3 TEX and its offspring

Contents

前言

1.4 How to use this book

1.5 Basics of a LATEX file

1.6 TEX processing procedure

1.7 Sample LATEX file

2 Text，Symbols，and Commands

2.1 Command names and arguments

2.2 Environments

2.3 Declarations

2.4 Lengths

2.5 Special characters

2.6 Exercises

2.7 Fine-tuning text

2.8 Word division

3 Document Layout and Organization

3.1 Document class

3.2 Page style

3.3 Parts of the document

3.4 Table of contents

4.1 Changing font style

4 Displaying Text

4.2 Centering and indenting

4.3 Lists

4.4 Generalized lists

4.5 Theorem-1ike declarations

4.6 Printing literal text

4.7 Comments within text

5.1 Boxes

5 Text in Boxes

5.2 Footnotes and marginal notes

6 Tables

6.1 Tabulator stops

6.2 Tables

7 Mathematical Formulas

7.1 Mathematical environments

7.2 Main elements of math mode

7.3 Mathematical symbols

7.4 Additional elements

7.5 Fine-tuning mathematics

7.6 Beyond standard LATEX

8 Graphics Inclusion and Color

8.1 The graphics packages

8.2 Adding color

9.1 Float placement

9 Floating tables and figures

9.2 Postponing floats

9.3 Style parameters for floats

9.4 Float captions

9.5 Float examples

9.6 References to figures and tables in text

9.7 Some float packages

10.1 Counters

10 User Customizations

10.2 Lengths

10.3 User-defined commands

10.4 User-defined environments

10.5 Some comments on user-defined structures

Ⅱ Beyond the Basics

11 Document Management

11.1 Processing parts of a document

11.2 In-text references

11.3 Bibliographies

11.4 Keyword index

1 2 Bibliographic Databases and BIBTEX

12.1 The BIBTEX program

12.2 Creating a bibliographic database

12.3 Customizing bibliography styles

13 PostScript and PDF

13.1 LATEX and PostScript

13.2 Portable Document Format

14 Multilingual LATEX

14.1 The babel system

14.2 Contents of the language.dat file

15 Math Extensions withAMS-LATEX

15.1 Invoking AMS-LATEX

15.2 Standard features of AMS-LATEX

15.3 Further AMS-LATEX packages

15.4 The AMS fonts

16.1 The pi cture environment

16 Drawing with LATEX

16.2 Extended pictures

16.3 Other drawing packages

17 Presentation Material

17.1 Slide production with slides class

17.2 Slide production with seminar

17.3 Slide production with the prosper class

17.4 Electronic documents for screen viewing

17.5 Special effects with PDF

18 Letters

18.1 The LATEX letter class

18.2 A house letter style

18.3 A modelletter customization

Appendices

A The New Font Selection Scheme

A.1 Font attributes under NFSS

A.2 Simplified font selection

A.3 Font encoding

B Installing and Maintaining LATEX

B.1 Installing LATEX

B.2 Obtaining the Adobe euro fonts

B.3 TEX directory structure

B.4 The CTAN servers

B.5 Additional standard files

B.6 The various LATEX files

C Error Messages

C.1 Basic structure of error messages

C.2 Some sample errors

C.3 List of LATEX error messagas

C.4 TEX error messages

C.5 Warnings

C.6 Search for subtle errors

D.1 Class and package files

D LATEX Programming

D.2 LATEX programming commands

D.3 Changing preprogrammed text

D.4 Direct typing of special letters

D.5 A1ternatives for special symbols

D.6 Managing code and documentation

E LATEX and the World Wide Web

E.1 Converting to HTML

E.2 The Extensible Markup Language：XML

F Obsolete LATEX

F.1 The 2.09 preamble

F.2 Font selection

F.3 Obsolete means obsolete

G Command Summary

G.1 Brief description of the LATEX commands

G.2 Summary tables and figures

Bibliography

Index