The LaTeX Companion

Part I

AvFrank Mittelbach,Ulrike Fischer

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This is the paperback edition of The LaTeX Companion, Third Edition -- Part I.

This edition consists of two parts. This is Part I and you can find Part II by going to ISBN 9780135480229. A bundle of both books is available at a special, discounted price; please see the listing for ISBN 9780135556849.

For nearly three decades The LaTeX Companion has been the essential resource for anyone using LaTeX to create high-quality documents. Just like the earlier editions, this completely updated third edition is designed to serve as the stable core resource for users: covering all aspects of document production, from detailed micro-typography questions and macro-typography (heading design, lists, mathematics, tables, graphics, fonts, page-layout, etc.) to bibliography and index production.

All chapters have been thoroughly revised and in many cases largely extended to describe new important functionality and features. More than 5,000 add-on packages have been analyzed in detail, out of which roughly 10% have been chosen for inclusion in The LaTeX Companion. All important aspects of these packages are described to provide the user once again with a satisfying one-stop-shop experience for the decade to come.

Following the concept of the earlier versions, the new edition is full of novel tips and tricks for using LaTeX in both traditional and modern typesetting, and also shows you how to customize layout features to your own needs--from phrases and paragraphs to headings, lists, and pages.

New to this edition:

Inclusion of, or more details on, important new or changed large-scale packages, e.g., biblatex, fontspec, hyperref, mathtools, siunitx, tcolorbox, tikz, and unicode-math, to name just a few.
Coverage of newer engine developments, e.g., the use of Unicode engines with LaTeX.
Discussion of all vital changes to LaTeX itself, which is is undergoing a transformation to keep it relevant in the years to come. Examples are the new hook management system for LaTeX, the extended document command syntax, and the inclusion of the LaTeX3 programming layer into the LaTeX format.
Inclusion of many new, useful (smaller) packages in all chapters--each offering additional functionality.
Two new chapters devoted to the use of high-quality fonts for text and math (OpenType, TrueType, and Type 1), now available for use with LaTeX. They offer a comprehensive set of samples to choose from, compiled with the help of an expert font designer.
Revised discussions of multi-lingual support by the authors of the babel system to typeset text from a wide range of languages and cultures.
The chapter on bibliography generation now also covers the styles made available with biblatex and biber.
More than 1,500 fully tested examples (an increase of 30%) that illustrate the text and solve typographical and technical problems--all ready to run!

This volume (Part I) of the edition covers:

An introduction to LaTeX and its history
The structure of a LaTeX document
Basic formatting tools (paragraph level)
Basic formatting tools (larger structures)
Page layout
Tabular material
Mastering floats
Graphics generation and manipulation
Font selection and encodings

Part II contains chapters on: Text and symbol fonts • Higher mathematics • Fonts in formulas • Localization and multilingual documents • Index generation • Bibliography generation • Managing citations • Package documentation tools • LaTeX programming and troubleshooting problems

In short, the two parts of The LaTeX Companion, Third Edition, cover all you need to know about LaTeX use in the twenty-first century, while also offering expertly curated discussions of the best add-on packages now available--over 500 are covered!

The examples can be downloaded from https://ctan.org/pkg/tlc3-examples.

Register your book for convenient access to downloads, updates, and/or corrections as they become available.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-11-20
Mått:188 x 232 x 50 mm
Vikt:1 250 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Tools and Techniques for Computer Typesetting
Antal sidor:976
Upplaga:3
Förlag:Pearson Education
ISBN:9780135467336

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Frank Mittelbach is the lead author of The LaTeX Companion, Third Edition, and is series editor of Addison-Wesley's Tools and Techniques for Computer Typesetting series. He is also technical lead of the LaTeX Project and, along with overseeing the original major release of LaTeX2_ε in 1994, he has overseen the 36 subsequent releases of this software. Frank is author or coauthor of several books and of many and varied LaTeX extension packages, such as AMS-LaTeX, doc, multicol, and NFSS: the New Font Selection Scheme. He is on the board of the International Gutenberg Society, an international association for the study of the history and development of printing technology and font-oriented media, where he focuses on the more recent period. He is currently leading a multi-year project for automatically producing tagged and accessible PDF output from LaTeX.Ulrike Fischer lives with her husband in Bonn, Germany. After studying mathematics at the University of Bonn, Ulrike became interested in the internal handling of fonts and in chess typesetting. With the help of the first edition of The LaTeX Companion, she wrote at the chessfss package, which allows users to choose between various chess fonts, and other chess-related packages. She joined the LaTeX Project after the TUG meeting in Rio de Janeiro, where she presented her package tagpdf to create tagged PDFs to the team members. Together with other members of the LaTeX Project she now maintains various packages including luaotfload, hyperref, xcolor, the new LaTeX PDF management code and more.

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List of Figures xviiiList of Tables xixForeword xxiPreface xxiiiChapter 1: Introduction 11.1 A brief history (of nearly half a century) 11.2 Today's systems 81.3 Working with this book 13Chapter 2: The Structure of a LaTeX Document 212.1 The overall structure of a source file 222.2 Sectioning commands 322.3 Table of contents structures 542.4 Managing references 752.5 Document source management 108Chapter 3: Basic Formatting Tools -- Paragraph Level 1193.1 Shaping your paragraphs 1203.2 Dealing with special characters 1473.3 Generated or specially formatted text 1543.4 Various ways of highlighting and quoting text 1773.5 Footnotes, endnotes, and marginals 2043.6 Support for document development 237Chapter 4: Basic Formatting Tools -- Larger Structures 2534.1 Lists 2544.2 Simulating typed text 2964.3 Lines and columns 3334.4 Generating sample texts 361Chapter 5: The Layout of the Page 3655.1 Geometrical dimensions of the layout 3665.2 Changing the layout 3685.3 Dynamic page data: page numbers and marks 3855.4 Page styles 3955.5 Page decorations and watermarks 4095.6 Visual formatting 4145.7 Doing layout with class 429Chapter 6: Tabular Material 4316.1 Standard LaTeX environments 4326.2 array -- Extending the tabular environments 4376.3 Calculating column widths 4466.4 Multipage tabular material 4566.5 Color in tables 4666.6 Customizing table rules and spacing 4676.7 Other extensions 4766.8 Footnotes in tabular material 4916.9 keyvaltable -- Separating table data and formatting 4946.10 tabularray -- Late breaking news 504Chapter 7: Mastering Floats 5057.1 An overview of LaTeX's float concepts 5067.2 Float placement control 5197.3 Extensions to LaTeX's float concept 5287.4 Controlling the float caption 5387.5 Key/value approaches for floats and subfloats 560Chapter 8: Graphics Generation and Manipulation 5758.1 LaTeX's image loading support 5768.2 Manipulating graphical objects in LaTeX 5878.3 Producing (fairly) portable line graphics 6028.4 Flexible boxes for multiple purposes 6148.5 tikz -- A general-purpose graphics system 631Chapter 9: Font Selection and Encodings 6479.1 Introduction 6489.2 Understanding font characteristics 6529.3 Using fonts in text 6589.4 Using fonts in math 6769.5 Standard LaTeX font support 6839.6 fontspec -- Font selection for Unicode engines 7059.7 The low-level NFSS interface 7309.8 Setting up new fonts for NFSS 7409.9 LaTeX's encoding models 754Bibliography 777Index of Commands and Concepts 793People 943