The Latex Companion

bull; Completely revised and updated; almost double the material in the previous edition; roughly 90% of the material is new or updated bull; Contains more than 900 self-contained ready-to-run examples that can immediately be reused by readers bull; Written by the core LaTeX developers and maintainers, this is the essential reference for anyone using LaTeX

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.

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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

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