Preface
I The First LaTeX Document
1
Introduction
2
What is LaTeX?
2.1
Why should I choose LaTeX over my current document system?
3
Download and Installation
4
Intro to “TeXstudio”
4.1
The Toolbar
5
Minimum Structure for an article – your first document in LaTeX
6
Formatting Your Document
6.1
Sections and Subsections
6.2
Paragraphs, line breaks and spaces
6.3
Line breaks and page breaks
6.3.1
Line breaks
6.3.2
Page breaks
6.4
Paragraphs
6.5
Spaces
6.6
Skips
6.7
Text Alignment
7
Lists
8
Font Styles
9
Table of Contents
10
Title Page
11
Commenting your code
II Tables, Figures, and References
12
Introduction
13
Labels
14
Footnotes
15
Packages
16
Including Figures & Pictures
16.1
Including Figures
16.2
Including a Picture
16.3
Picture Dimensions
17
Floats
17.1
Float Location
18
Float Barriers
19
Sub-Figures
20
Captions (Flo’s Pet Hate)
21
Setting Tables
21.1
Separation Lines
21.2
Fixed Width of Columns
21.3
Controlling Vertical Adjustment
21.4
Combining Rows and Columns
21.5
Tabularx
21.6
Defining New Column Types
21.7
Specifying Row Height
21.8
The ‘Table’ Floating Environment
22
Lists of Figures and Tables
23
Referencing and the Bibliography
23.1
The Bibliography
23.1.1
.bib files
23.2
Citing Bibliography Resources
23.3
Endnotes
III Advanced Documents
24
Introduction
25
Beamer Presentation
25.1
First Beamer Presentation
25.2
Title Frame
25.3
Themes
25.4
Frame Title
25.5
Sections
25.6
AtBeginSection
25.7
Colour Boxes
25.8
Table of Contents
25.9
Overlays and Pauses
25.10
Columns
25.11
Blocks
25.12
Figures and Tables
25.13
Summary
26
Books
26.0.1
Main File
26.1
The Preamble File
26.2
Chapter File
26.3
Listings
A Basic Example
26.4
Formatting Listings
26.5
Using Source Files
26.6
Inline code
26.7
Natbib – Advanced Citations
27
Tips & Tricks
27.1
Page Dimensions
27.2
Styling
27.2.1
Page number
27.2.2
Header and footer style
27.3
Shortcuts and Special Escapes
27.3.1
Shortcuts
27.3.2
Special Escapes
Academic Writing with LaTeX
12
Introduction
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
Labels
Footnotes
Including figures and pictures
Captions
Sub-figures
Creating tables
Citing bibliography resources
Endnotes