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Frank Mittelbach is manager of the LaTeX3 Project, in which capacity he oversaw the release of LaTeX 2e. He is the editor of a series of publications on tools and techniques for computer typesetting.
Michel Goossens is past president of the TeX Users Group. A research physicist at CERN, where the Web paradigm was born, he is responsible for LaTeX, HTML, SGML, and, more recently, XML support for scientific documents.
| List of Figures | |
| List of Tables | |
| Preface | |
| Introduction | |
| A brief history | |
| Today's system | |
| Working with this book | |
| The Structure of a LATEX Document | |
| The structure of a source file | |
| Sectioning commands | |
| Table of contents structures | |
| Managing references | |
| Basic Formatting Tools | |
| Phrases and paragraphs | |
| Footnotes, endnotes, and marginals | |
| List structures | |
| Simulating typed text | |
| Lines and columns | |
| The Layout of the Page | |
| Geometrical dimensions of the layout | |
| Changing the layout | |
| Dynamic page data: page numbers and marks | |
| Page styles | |
| Visual formatting | |
| Doing layout with class | |
| Tabular Material | |
| Standard LaTEX environments | |
| Array--Extending the tabular environments | |
| Calculating column widths | |
| Multipage tabular material | |
| Color in tables | |
| Customizing table rules and spacing | |
| Further extensions | |
| Footnotes in tabular material | |
| Applications | |
| Mastering Floats | |
| Understanding float parameters | |
| Float placement control | |
| Extensions to LaTEX's float concept | |
| Inline floats | |
| Controlling the float caption | |
| Fonts and Encodings | |
| Introduction | |
| Understanding font characteristics | |
| Using fonts in text | |
| Using fonts in math | |
| Standard LaTEX font support | |
| PSNFSS--Post | |
| Script fonts with LaTEX | |
| Acollection of font packages | |
| The LaTEX world of symbols | |
| The low-level interface | |
| Setting up new fonts | |
| LaTEX's encoding models | |
| Compatibility packages for very old documents | |
| Higher Mathematics | |
| Introduction to AMS-LaTEX | |
| Display and alignment structures for equations | |
| Matrix-like environments | |
| Compound structures and decorations | |
| Variable symbol commands | |
What is included with this book? The New copy of this book will include any supplemental materials advertised. Please check the title of the book to determine if it should include any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc. The Used, Rental and eBook copies of this book are not guaranteed to include any supplemental materials. Typically, only the book itself is included. This is true even if the title states it includes any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc. ExcerptsA full decade has passed since the publication of the first edition ofThe LATEX Companion--a decade during which some people prophesied the demise of TEX and LaTEX and predicted that other software would take over the world. There have been a great many changes indeed, but neither prediction has come to pass: TEX has not vanished and the interest in LaTEX has not declined, although the approach to both has gradually changed over time. When we wrote theCompanionin 1993, we intended to describe what is usefully available in the LaTEX world (though ultimately we ended up describing what was available at CERN in those days). As an unintentional side effect, the first editiondefinedfor most readers what should be available in a then-modern LaTEX distribution. Fortunately, most of the choices we made at that time proved to be reasonable, and the majority (albeit not all) of the packages described in the first edition are still in common use today. Thus, even though "the book shows its age, it still remains a solid reference in most parts", as one reviewer put it recently. Nevertheless, much has changed and a lot of new and exciting functionality has been added to LaTEX during the last decade. As a result, while revising the book we ended up rewriting 90% of the original content and adding about 600 additional pages describing impressive new developments. What you are holding now is essentially a new book--a book that we hope preserves the positive aspects of the first edition even as it greatly enhances them, while at the same time avoiding the mistakes we made back then, both in content and presentation (though doubtless we made some others). For this book we used the CTAN archives as a basis and also went through the comp.text.tex news group archives to identify the most pressing questions and queries. In addition to highlighting a good selection of the contributed packages available on the CTAN archives, the book describes many aspects of the basic LaTEX system that are not fully covered in theLATEX Manual,Leslie Lamport'sLATEX: A Document Preparation System.Note, however, that our book is not a replacement for theLATEX Manualbut rather a companion to it: a reader of our book is assumed to have read at least the first part of that book (or a comparable introductory work, such as theGuide to LATEX) and to have some practical experience with producing LaTEX documents. The second edition has seen a major change in the authorship; Frank took over as principal author (so he is to blame for all the faults in this book) and several members of the LaTEX3 project team joined in the book's preparation, enriching it with their knowledge and experience in individual subject areas. The preparation of the book was overshadowed by the sudden death of our good friend, colleague, and prospective co-author Michael Downes, whose great contributions to LaTEX, andAMS-LaTEX in particular, are well known to many people. We dedicate this book to him and his memory. Frank Mittelbach Michel Goossens Johannes Braams David Carlisle Chris Rowley February 2004 0201362996P04062004
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