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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• Part I:List of Figures xxviList of Tables xxixForeword xxxvPreface xxxviiChapter 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 754Part II (page numbers begin with "II"):Foreword, Part II II vPreface, Part II II viiChapter 10: Text and Symbol Fonts II 110.1 Overview II 210.2 Samples of larger font families II 1110.3 Humanist (Oldstyle) serif fonts II 3610.4 Garalde (Oldstyle) serif fonts II 3810.5 Transitional/Neoclassical serif fonts II 4610.6 Didone (Modern) serif fonts II 6010.7 Slab serif (Egyptian) fonts II 6410.8 Sans serif fonts II 6710.9 Monospaced (typewriter) fonts II 8810.10 Historical and other fonts II 9710.11 Fonts supporting Latin and polytonic Greek II 10610.12 Fonts supporting Latin and Cyrillic II 11010.13 The LaTeX world of symbols II 113Chapter 11: Higher Mathematics II 12711.1 Introduction to amsmath and mathtools II 12811.2 Display and alignment structures for equations II 13111.3 Matrix-like environments II 15311.4 Compound structures and decorations II 16311.5 Variable symbol commands II 18011.6 Words in mathematics II 19111.7 Fine-tuning the mathematical layout II 19411.8 Symbols in formulas II 208Chapter 12: Fonts in Formulas II 22512.1 The world of (Latin) math alphabets II 22612.2 Making it bold II 23512.3 Traditional math font setup through packages II 23812.4 unicode-math -- Using Unicode math fonts II 25312.5 A visual comparison of different math setups II 261Chapter 13: Localizing Documents II 29713.1 TEX and non–English languages II 29713.2 The babel user interface II 30113.3 User commands provided by language options II 30813.4 Support for Cyrillic and Greek II 32413.5 Complex scripts II 33013.6 Tailoring babel II 33213.7 Other approaches II 341Chapter 14: Index Generation II 34314.1 Syntax of the index entries II 34514.2 MakeIndex -- A program to sort and format indexes II 35014.3 upmendex -- A Unicode-aware indexing program II 36414.4 xindy, xindex -- Two other indexing programs II 37014.5 Enhancing the index with LaTeX features II 371Chapter 15: Bibliography Generation II 37515.1 The standard LaTeX bibliography environment II 37615.2 The biber and BibTeX programs II 37815.3 The BibTeX database format II 38015.4 Using BibTeX or biber to produce the bibliography II 40915.5 On-line bibliographies II 41315.6 Bibliography database management tools II 41415.7 Formatting the bibliography with styles II 418Chapter 16: Managing Citations II 46916.1 Introduction II 46916.2 The number-only system II 47316.3 The author-date system II 48716.4 The author-number system II 50216.5 The author-title system II 50716.6 The verbose system II 53716.7 biblatex -- One ring to rule them all II 54116.8 Multiple bibliographies in one document II 569Chapter 17: LaTeX Package Documentation Tools II 58317.1 doc -- Documenting LaTeX and other code II 58417.2 docstrip.tex -- Producing ready-to-run code II 59917.3 l3build -- A versatile development environment II 60617.4 Making use of version control tools II 615Appendix A: LaTeX Overview for Preamble, Package, and Class Writers II 621A.1 Linking markup and formatting II 622A.2 Counters and length expressions II 646A.3 Page markup -- Boxes and rules II 660A.4 LaTeX's hook management II 671A.5 Control structure extensions II 685A.6 Package and class file structure II 693Appendix B: Tracing and Resolving Problems II 711B.1 Error messages II 712B.2 Dying with memory exceeded II 744B.3 Warnings and informational messages II 749B.4 TeX and LaTeX commands for tracing II 765Appendix C: Going Beyond II 783C.1 Learn LaTeX -- A LaTeX online course for beginners II 784C.2 Finding information available on your computer II 785C.3 Accessing online information and getting help II 787C.4 Getting all those TeX files II 789C.5 Giving back to the community II 792Bibliography II 795Index of Commands and Concepts II 817People II 967Biographies II 973Production Notes II 977

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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• Part I:List of Figures xxviList of Tables xxixForeword xxxvPreface xxxviiChapter 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 754Part II (page numbers begin with "II"):Foreword, Part II II vPreface, Part II II viiChapter 10: Text and Symbol Fonts II 110.1 Overview II 210.2 Samples of larger font families II 1110.3 Humanist (Oldstyle) serif fonts II 3610.4 Garalde (Oldstyle) serif fonts II 3810.5 Transitional/Neoclassical serif fonts II 4610.6 Didone (Modern) serif fonts II 6010.7 Slab serif (Egyptian) fonts II 6410.8 Sans serif fonts II 6710.9 Monospaced (typewriter) fonts II 8810.10 Historical and other fonts II 9710.11 Fonts supporting Latin and polytonic Greek II 10610.12 Fonts supporting Latin and Cyrillic II 11010.13 The LaTeX world of symbols II 113Chapter 11: Higher Mathematics II 12711.1 Introduction to amsmath and mathtools II 12811.2 Display and alignment structures for equations II 13111.3 Matrix-like environments II 15311.4 Compound structures and decorations II 16311.5 Variable symbol commands II 18011.6 Words in mathematics II 19111.7 Fine-tuning the mathematical layout II 19411.8 Symbols in formulas II 208Chapter 12: Fonts in Formulas II 22512.1 The world of (Latin) math alphabets II 22612.2 Making it bold II 23512.3 Traditional math font setup through packages II 23812.4 unicode-math -- Using Unicode math fonts II 25312.5 A visual comparison of different math setups II 261Chapter 13: Localizing Documents II 29713.1 TEX and non–English languages II 29713.2 The babel user interface II 30113.3 User commands provided by language options II 30813.4 Support for Cyrillic and Greek II 32413.5 Complex scripts II 33013.6 Tailoring babel II 33213.7 Other approaches II 341Chapter 14: Index Generation II 34314.1 Syntax of the index entries II 34514.2 MakeIndex -- A program to sort and format indexes II 35014.3 upmendex -- A Unicode-aware indexing program II 36414.4 xindy, xindex -- Two other indexing programs II 37014.5 Enhancing the index with LaTeX features II 371Chapter 15: Bibliography Generation II 37515.1 The standard LaTeX bibliography environment II 37615.2 The biber and BibTeX programs II 37815.3 The BibTeX database format II 38015.4 Using BibTeX or biber to produce the bibliography II 40915.5 On-line bibliographies II 41315.6 Bibliography database management tools II 41415.7 Formatting the bibliography with styles II 418Chapter 16: Managing Citations II 46916.1 Introduction II 46916.2 The number-only system II 47316.3 The author-date system II 48716.4 The author-number system II 50216.5 The author-title system II 50716.6 The verbose system II 53716.7 biblatex -- One ring to rule them all II 54116.8 Multiple bibliographies in one document II 569Chapter 17: LaTeX Package Documentation Tools II 58317.1 doc -- Documenting LaTeX and other code II 58417.2 docstrip.tex -- Producing ready-to-run code II 59917.3 l3build -- A versatile development environment II 60617.4 Making use of version control tools II 615Appendix A: LaTeX Overview for Preamble, Package, and Class Writers II 621A.1 Linking markup and formatting II 622A.2 Counters and length expressions II 646A.3 Page markup -- Boxes and rules II 660A.4 LaTeX's hook management II 671A.5 Control structure extensions II 685A.6 Package and class file structure II 693Appendix B: Tracing and Resolving Problems II 711B.1 Error messages II 712B.2 Dying with memory exceeded II 744B.3 Warnings and informational messages II 749B.4 TeX and LaTeX commands for tracing II 765Appendix C: Going Beyond II 783C.1 Learn LaTeX -- A LaTeX online course for beginners II 784C.2 Finding information available on your computer II 785C.3 Accessing online information and getting help II 787C.4 Getting all those TeX files II 789C.5 Giving back to the community II 792Bibliography II 795Index of Commands and Concepts II 817People II 967Biographies II 973Production Notes II 977

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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• Part I:List of Figures xxviList of Tables xxixForeword xxxvPreface xxxviiChapter 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 754Part II (page numbers begin with "II"):Foreword, Part II II vPreface, Part II II viiChapter 10: Text and Symbol Fonts II 110.1 Overview II 210.2 Samples of larger font families II 1110.3 Humanist (Oldstyle) serif fonts II 3610.4 Garalde (Oldstyle) serif fonts II 3810.5 Transitional/Neoclassical serif fonts II 4610.6 Didone (Modern) serif fonts II 6010.7 Slab serif (Egyptian) fonts II 6410.8 Sans serif fonts II 6710.9 Monospaced (typewriter) fonts II 8810.10 Historical and other fonts II 9710.11 Fonts supporting Latin and polytonic Greek II 10610.12 Fonts supporting Latin and Cyrillic II 11010.13 The LaTeX world of symbols II 113Chapter 11: Higher Mathematics II 12711.1 Introduction to amsmath and mathtools II 12811.2 Display and alignment structures for equations II 13111.3 Matrix-like environments II 15311.4 Compound structures and decorations II 16311.5 Variable symbol commands II 18011.6 Words in mathematics II 19111.7 Fine-tuning the mathematical layout II 19411.8 Symbols in formulas II 208Chapter 12: Fonts in Formulas II 22512.1 The world of (Latin) math alphabets II 22612.2 Making it bold II 23512.3 Traditional math font setup through packages II 23812.4 unicode-math -- Using Unicode math fonts II 25312.5 A visual comparison of different math setups II 261Chapter 13: Localizing Documents II 29713.1 TEX and non–English languages II 29713.2 The babel user interface II 30113.3 User commands provided by language options II 30813.4 Support for Cyrillic and Greek II 32413.5 Complex scripts II 33013.6 Tailoring babel II 33213.7 Other approaches II 341Chapter 14: Index Generation II 34314.1 Syntax of the index entries II 34514.2 MakeIndex -- A program to sort and format indexes II 35014.3 upmendex -- A Unicode-aware indexing program II 36414.4 xindy, xindex -- Two other indexing programs II 37014.5 Enhancing the index with LaTeX features II 371Chapter 15: Bibliography Generation II 37515.1 The standard LaTeX bibliography environment II 37615.2 The biber and BibTeX programs II 37815.3 The BibTeX database format II 38015.4 Using BibTeX or biber to produce the bibliography II 40915.5 On-line bibliographies II 41315.6 Bibliography database management tools II 41415.7 Formatting the bibliography with styles II 418Chapter 16: Managing Citations II 46916.1 Introduction II 46916.2 The number-only system II 47316.3 The author-date system II 48716.4 The author-number system II 50216.5 The author-title system II 50716.6 The verbose system II 53716.7 biblatex -- One ring to rule them all II 54116.8 Multiple bibliographies in one document II 569Chapter 17: LaTeX Package Documentation Tools II 58317.1 doc -- Documenting LaTeX and other code II 58417.2 docstrip.tex -- Producing ready-to-run code II 59917.3 l3build -- A versatile development environment II 60617.4 Making use of version control tools II 615Appendix A: LaTeX Overview for Preamble, Package, and Class Writers II 621A.1 Linking markup and formatting II 622A.2 Counters and length expressions II 646A.3 Page markup -- Boxes and rules II 660A.4 LaTeX's hook management II 671A.5 Control structure extensions II 685A.6 Package and class file structure II 693Appendix B: Tracing and Resolving Problems II 711B.1 Error messages II 712B.2 Dying with memory exceeded II 744B.3 Warnings and informational messages II 749B.4 TeX and LaTeX commands for tracing II 765Appendix C: Going Beyond II 783C.1 Learn LaTeX -- A LaTeX online course for beginners II 784C.2 Finding information available on your computer II 785C.3 Accessing online information and getting help II 787C.4 Getting all those TeX files II 789C.5 Giving back to the community II 792Bibliography II 795Index of Commands and Concepts II 817People II 967Biographies II 973Production Notes II 977