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Dec 1, 2023 · LaTeX is a macro system built on top of TeX that aims to simplify its use and automate many common formatting tasks. It is the de-facto standard for academic journals and books in several fields, such as mathematics and physics, and provides some of the best typography free software has to offer.
- Advanced Mathematics
Page breaks in math environments [edit | edit source]. To...
- Tables
LaTeX/Tables - Wikibooks, open books for an open world. <...
- Latex/Document Structure
Given only the logical and semantical structure of a text,...
- LaTeX/Special Characters
The LaTeX support of UTF-8 is fairly specific: it includes...
- Latex/Text Formatting
Formatting refers to most things to do with appearance...
- LaTeX Macros
command. Basically, the command requires two arguments: the...
- LaTeX/Customizing Page Headers and Footers
The tricky problem when customizing headers and footers is...
- Source Code Listings
There are many packages providing code listings and...
- Floats, Figures and Captions
LaTeX will automatically keep track of the numbering of...
- LaTeX Colors
The package allows you to use the names of 19 base colors...
- Advanced Mathematics
May 31, 2021 · 1 The LaTeX syntax. 1.1 Spaces. 1.2 Reserved Characters. 1.3 LaTeX groups. 1.4 LaTeX environments. 1.5 LaTeX commands. 1.6 Comments. 2 Our first document. 2.1 What does it all mean? 3 Building a document. 3.1 Generating the document. 3.2 Autobuild Systems. 3.3 Historical versions of LaTeX. 4 Files. 4.1 Picking suitable filenames.
- What Is Tex?
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TeX is a language created by Donald Knuth to typeset documents attractively and consistently. Knuth started writing the TeX typesetting engine in 1977 to explore the potential of the digital printing equipment that was beginning to infiltrate the publishing industry at that time, in the hope that he could reverse the trend of deteriorating typograp...
LaTeX (pronounced either "Lah-tech" or "Lay-tech") is a set of macros for TeX created by Leslie Lamport. Its purpose is to simplify the TeX typesetting, especially for documents containing mathematical formulae. Within the typesetting system, its name is formatted as LaTeX. TeX is both a typographical and logical markup language, and one has to tak...
Most readers will be familiar with WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) typesetting systems such as LibreOffice Writer, Microsoft Word, or Google Docs. Using LaTeX is fundamentally different from using these other programs—instead of seeing your document as it comes together, you describe how you want it to look using commands in a text file, the...
In the next chapter we discuss installing LaTeX on your system. Then we will typeset our first LaTeX file.
One of the most frustrating things beginners and even advanced users might encounter using LaTeX is the difficulty of changing the look of your documents. While WYSIWYG programs make it trivial to change fonts and layouts, LaTeX requires you to learn new commands and packages to do so. Subsequent chapters will cover many common use cases, but know ...
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May 2, 2024 · 1 Mathematics environments. 1.1 Inserting "Displayed" maths inside blocks of text. 2 Symbols. 3 Greek letters. 4 Operators. 5 Powers and indices. 6 Fractions and Binomials. 6.1 Continued fractions. 6.2 Multiplication of two numbers. 7 Roots. 8 Sums and integrals. 9 Brackets, braces and delimiters. 9.1 Automatic sizing. 9.2 Manual sizing.
