Название: Text and Math Into LaTeX, 6th Edition
Автор: George Grätzer
Издательство: Springer
Год: 2024
Страниц: 628
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 33.0 MB

For more than 30 years,this comprehensive manual has been the standard introduction and complete reference for writing articles and books containing mathematical formulas. This sixth edition uses a slightly changed title, Text and Math into LaTeX, to emphasize the importance of text in mathematical/scientific composition. Sections that contained commands no longer much needed (such as includeonly) and the introductory sections to PDF (now ubiquitous) have been omitted. Many sections are now enhanced with discussion of new and useful packages. An occasional encouragement for the reader to consult ChatGPT for confirmation on various points illustrates the positive relationship between ChatGPT and LaTeX.

LaTeX is widely used in many fields, including mathematics, Computer Science, engineering, physics, chemistry, economics, and linguistics. (ChatGPT lists 45 fields). Part I provides a quick introduction to LATEX, from typing examples of text and math to typing your first article such as on that shown on page 4 and similarly: creating your first presentation, such as the sample presentation, in a very short time. The rest of the book provides a detailed exposition of LATEX. LATEX has a huge collection of rules and commands. While the basics in Part I should serve you well in all your writing, most articles and presentations will also require to look up some special topics. Learn Part I well and become passingly familiar with the rest of the book, so when the need arises you know where to turn with your questions. You can find specific topics in the Short Contents, the detailed Contents, and the Index. Mathematicians find LATEX very strange. A typical article in mathematics deals with a field defined by a few axioms, and the topic of the article needs only a few more. In contrast, LATEX has hundreds of axioms—commands. We try to introduce you to these very gently, by starting with as few as possible. For instance, we introduce presentations with only five new commands.

When you work with a word processor, you see your document on the computer monitor more or less as it looks when printed, with its various fonts, font sizes, font shapes (for instance, roman, italic) and weights (for instance, normal, boldface), interline spacing, indentation, and so on. Working with a markup language is different. You type the source file of your article in a text editor, in which all characters appear in the same font. To indicate changes in the typeset text, you must add text markup commands to the source file. The markup language we shall discuss comes in three layers: TEX, LATEX, and theAMS packages. Most LATEX installations automatically place all three on your computer. You do not have to know what comes from which layer, so we consider the three together and call it LATEX.

This book is a guide for typesetting mathematical documents within the constraints imposed by LATEX, an elaborate system with hundreds of rules. LATEX allows you to perform almost any mathematical typesetting task through the appropriate application of its rules. You can customize LATEX by introducing custom commands and environments and by changing LATEX parameters. You can also extend LATEX by invoking packages that accomplish special tasks.