Last Updated on January 21, 2024
5. Let’s Learn LaTeX by S. Parthasarathy
Let’s Learn LaTeX recommends hacking as a good method of learning LaTeX.
It gives 30 ‘lessons’ which show various aspects of LaTeX.
This book is not intended to address all aspects of LaTeX, but as a DIY approach to learn the system.
The book is written by a teacher and mature user of LaTeX.
The contents of the book:
- Learning by doing.
- Basics.
- Bibliographies in LaTeX.
- Tables.
- Languages.
- Templates.
- For maths lowers.
- Misc tools.
- The big picture.
This book is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharelike 4.0 Unported license.
6. The Art of LaTeX by Helin Gai
The book covers the following topics:
- The Grand History of TeX – a general overview of the history of TeX/LaTeX.
- LaTeX Singing on Your Computer – set up LaTeX on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.
- Getting Started.
- Playing with Text – focuses on how you enter text and set type. Topics covered include: how to enter the characters not readily available on your keyboard, how to change the typeface of your text, etc.
- Working with Paragraphs – helps you deal with paragraphs, starting with basic controls over line breaks, moving on to the details of TeX’s typesetting engine.
- Elements of Your Document – cross references, listing items, columns, notes, programming codes, making boxes, index.
- LaTeX with Designers – focuses on how to design with LaTeX.
- When TeX Dates Math – goes into detail about how to typeset math properly.
- Tables and Graphics.
The book is released under an open source license, the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license.
7. A Simplified Introduction to LaTeX by Harvey J. Greenberg
A Simplified Introduction to LaTeX is billed as an accessible introduction for the beginner.
It’s a quick entry to LaTeX designed for students in an undergraduate seminar.
LaTeX maths and graphics is a short handout that helps the reader start to get to grips with LaTeX.
The book is 147 pages.
The maths’ section of the book covers:
- Environments.
- Special Characters – Greek, arrows, calligraphic, and more.
- Subscripts and superscripts.
- Overlining, underlining and bold characters.
- Roots and fractions.
- Delimiters.
- Numbering and labelling.
- Matrices.
- Macros.
- Packages.
- Fine tuning.
- Maths and Postscript fonts.
- Matlab and LaTeX.
- Examples.
The book’s second chapter examines Postscript, scaling, rotation, clipping, wrap-around and shadows. GIF, jpeg files, and PStricks are mentioned.
It’s permitted to copy this document for the purposes of education and non-commercial research.
8. LaTeX maths and graphics by T. P. love
LaTeX maths and graphics is a short handout that helps the reader start to get to grips with LaTeX.
The maths’ section of the book covers:
- Environments.
- Special Characters – Greek, arrows, calligraphic, and more.
- Subscripts and superscripts.
- Overlining, underlining and bold characters.
- Roots and fractions.
- Delimiters.
- Numbering and labelling.
- Matrices.
- Macros.
- Packages.
- Fine tuning.
- Maths and Postscript fonts.
- Matlab and LaTeX.
- Examples.
The book’s second chapter examines Postscript, scaling, rotation, clipping, wrap-around and shadows. GIF, jpeg files, and PStricks are mentioned.
It’s permitted to copy this document for the purposes of education and non-commercial research.
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