LaTeX-Beginner-s-Guide-Second-Edition, published by Packt

This is the code repository for LaTeX-Beginner-s-Guide-Second-Edition, published by Packt.

Create visually appealing texts, articles, and books for business and science using LaTeX

LaTeX is high-quality open source typesetting software that produces professional prints and PDF files. It's a powerful and complex tool with a multitude of features, so getting started can be intimidating. However, once you become comfortable with LaTeX, its capabilities far outweigh any initial challenges, and this book will help you with just that!

This book covers the following exciting features:

• Make the most of LaTeX's powerful features to produce professionally designed texts
• Download, install and set up LaTeX and use additional styles, templates, and tools
• Typeset math formulas and scientific expressions to the highest standards
• Understand how to include graphics and work with figures and tables
• Discover professional fonts and modern PDF features

If you feel this book is for you, get your copy today!

All of the code is organized into folders.

The code will look like the following:

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
Besides from {\itshape italics}, words can be {\bfseries bold},
{\slshape slanted}, or typeset in {\scshape Small Caps}.
\end{document}

Following is what you need for this book:

If you are about to write mathematical or scientific papers, seminar handouts, or even plan to write a thesis, this book offers you a fast-paced and practical introduction to LaTeX. School and university students will find this easy-to-follow LaTeX guide helpful, as will mathematicians, physicists, engineers, and humanists. Anybody with high expectations from their software will discover how easy it is to leverage LaTeX's high performance for creating documents.

With the following software and hardware list you can run all code files present in the book (Chapter 1-13).

• The Official Guide to Mermaid.js [Packt] [Amazon]

• LaTeX Cookbook [Packt] [Amazon]

Stefan Kottwitz studied mathematics in Jena and Hamburg. He works as a network and IT security engineer both for Lufthansa Industry Solutions and for Eurowings Aviation.For many years, he has been providing LaTeX support on online forums. He maintains the web forums LaTeX.org and goLaTeX.de and the Q&A sites TeXwelt.de and TeXnique.fr.He runs the TeX graphics gallery sites TeXample.net, TikZ.net, and PGFplots.net, the TeXlive.net online compiler, the TeXdoc.org service, and the CTAN.net software mirror.He is a moderator of the TeX Stack Exchange site and matheplanet.com. He publishesideas and news from the TeX world on his blogs LaTeX.net and TeX.co.Before this book, he authored the first edition of LaTeX Beginner's Guide in 2011, and LaTeX Cookbook in 2015, both published by Packt.

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