$LaTeX for Linux : A Vade Mecum - Bernice S. Lipkin$

LaTeX for Linux

A Vade Mecum

By: Bernice S. Lipkin

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l With the advent of Linux and its increasing popularity, people who have split their person- alities, working a Unix machine during the day and a Windows machine at home at night, have been transforming their home computers into Linux boxes. Others, who run large programs on Unix with no problem, are tired of being told there is not enough memory to compile or run their programs in DOS and older Windows, especially when they have invested in extra memory, which, apparently, these operating systems ignore. And the need to revamp an entire software wardrobe in shifting from one buggy version of Windows to another may make Bill Gates happy, but does little for the rest of us. Linux is a particu- larly attractive alternative, in that it provides an integrated configuration and a wealth of interesting packages. As it gets easier to install Linux, it becomes more popular, so there are more people out there to whom you can tum for advice. This means it gets easier and simpler to install. Witness the number of books on installing and running Linux,2 even for people who have never used Unix. There is even a journal devoted exclusively to Linux. The Linux Jour- 3 nal provides general coverage ofhardware and software issues, with timely articles, some ILinux is the Unix-type operating system, whose kernel was constructed by Linus Torvalds from scratch.

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Preface	p. xxi
Reading LATEX	p. 1
What a LATEX Command Does	p. 3
Concepts: How LATEX Operates on Text	p. 7
Grammatical Elements	p. 8
Instructions to LATEX	p. 9
Commands	p. 10
Declarations	p. 11
Environments	p. 12
Basic Principles in Reading and Writing LATEX Commands	p. 14
The Scope of an Instruction	p. 15
LATEX Conventions	p. 17
Document Classes	p. 21
LATEX's Style of Styling Styles	p. 21
Format of a Very Simple LATEX File	p. 23
LATEX-defined Classes	p. 23
Slides	p. 24
Letters	p. 25
Articles	p. 29
Reports	p. 30
Books	p. 30
Document Class Options	p. 32
TOC Option	p. 36
Preparatory Tasks	p. 37
Constructing practice.tex, a Practice File	p. 39
Setting Emacs Keys for Common Constructions	p. 45
Writing in Emacs	p. 45
A Font Shape Template	p. 46
A List Template	p. 48
A Verbatim Template	p. 51
A Macro Template	p. 52
A Logo Template	p. 53
Viewing and Printing Marked Up Files	p. 55
Dealing with Errors	p. 59
Real Errors	p. 60
Overfull and Underfull Lines and Pages	p. 64
The overfull line	p. 64
The underfull line	p. 67
The overfull page	p. 67
The underfull page	p. 68
Other alerts	p. 68
Writing LATEX	p. 71
LATEX-Reserved Single-Character Commands	p. 73
Single-Character Command Symbols	p. 73
Writing Special Symbols As Ordinary Text	p. 75
Writing Aliases For Single Character Commands	p. 77
Meta Level Mimicking Of Text Commands	p. 78
Single-Word Instructions	p. 81
Font Features	p. 81
Commands	p. 83
The LATEX repertoire of commands	p. 84
User-created new commands	p. 87
Declarations	p. 88
Environments	p. 89
Using an environment whose name is a defined declaration	p. 90
Constructing an environment from an existing environment	p. 91
Creating environments from scratch	p. 92
Trouble spots in creating a new environment	p. 93
Newcommands and Macros	p. 95
What a Macro Is	p. 95
Exact Substitution	p. 95
PlaceHolder Substitution	p. 96
Composing the macro	p. 97
Using the macro	p. 98
Revising a macro definition	p. 99
Using LATEX Instructions in the Macro	p. 99
Commands in the macro argument	p. 99
Declarations in the macro argument	p. 100
Environments and macros	p. 101
Incorporating a Macro in a Macro	p. 103
The Complete Newcommand Format	p. 104
Trouble Spots in Writing Macros	p. 107
The Complete Newenvironment Format	p. 108
Formatting in Text Mode	p. 111
Fonts	p. 115
Font Terminology	p. 116
Commands/Declarations That Control Font Features	p. 118
Manipulating font family, series and shapes	p. 118
Font sizes	p. 121
Changing both font size and type style	p. 123
Naming Conventions for Fonts	p. 123
Classic TEX fonts	p. 123
Using NFSS to classify names	p. 125
Fonts supplied with LATEX	p. 130
The Directory Structure for Storing Fonts	p. 133
To Load a New Font	p. 134
Why load yet another font?	p. 134
To change the main font family for the entire document	p. 135
To load an additional font from NFSS descriptors	p. 139
The main font and the selectfont font	p. 145
Behind the scenes in loading and using a font	p. 146
Accents, Dingbats, Standard and Nonstandard Codes	p. 157
The Fonts on Disk	p. 159
Naming font files	p. 159
Directory names	p. 160
To view and use a font table	p. 161
The Standard ASCII Codes	p. 164
Built-In letter accents	p. 167
Trademarks and registries	p. 168
Nonstandard Coding Tables	p. 170
Dingbats	p. 172
Saint Mary Road symbol fonts	p. 174
European Computer Modern text fonts	p. 177
text companion symbols	p. 178
Math symbol fonts	p. 179
wasy symbol fonts	p. 181
Nonstandard Sizes: Banners, Posters And Spreads	p. 182
Manipulating Space	p. 195
Adding a Small Amount of Space Between Characters/Words	p. 195
Adding Significant Space Between Words	p. 197
Adding Space Between Sentences	p. 200
Adding Space Between Two Lines	p. 201
Using [length]	p. 201
Using the vspace command	p. 202
Using fixed size vertical skips	p. 203
Filling vertical space up to what's needed	p. 204
The /par command	p. 205
Changing the Permanent Spacing Between Lines	p. 205
Adding a Blank Line Between Paragraphs	p. 205
Adding Permanent Space Between Paragraphs	p. 206
Double Spacing a Draft Copy	p. 206
Lists	p. 209
The Itemize List	p. 210
The Enumerate List	p. 212
The Description List	p. 214
Other Description List Styles	p. 216
The Trivlist Environment	p. 219
Aligning and Indenting Text	p. 221
Aligning the Text Horizontally	p. 221
Raising Text	p. 223
Outdenting	p. 224
Breaking Single Lines on the Right	p. 225
Creating an Outline	p. 226
Using Displayed Paragraph Formats	p. 228
Quotation and quote environments	p. 228
Verse environment	p. 229
Center environment	p. 230
An ordinary description list	p. 231
Simple Paragraph Indenting	p. 232
Controlling the Degree of Indentation	p. 232
Floating Objects	p. 237
Figures	p. 237
General format	p. 237
Usage	p. 239
Subfigures	p. 242
Working text around a figure	p. 243
Creating new float styles	p. 250
Captions	p. 251
Marginal Notes	p. 252
Tables	p. 253
Tabs	p. 254
The tabular environment	p. 258
Floats and multiple columns	p. 270
Footnotes	p. 273
Footnotes in Text	p. 273
Footnote syntax in text	p. 274
Shifting between numbers and symbols	p. 275
Numbering by symbol	p. 275
Resetting the counter	p. 276
Examples of numbering styles	p. 277
Footnotes in a Minipage	p. 279
Minipage footnotes with independent numbering	p. 279
Blending minipage and text footnotes	p. 281
Changing Footnote Style	p. 284
Footnote Modification Packages	p. 285
Cross-Referencing	p. 287
Referencing Numbered LATEX Objects	p. 287
Page References	p. 289
Referencing Footnotes	p. 290
Positioning the Label	p. 291
The LATEX object is stylized	p. 291
The LATEX object is not stylized	p. 292
Literal Text and Silent Text	p. 295
Verbatim Text	p. 295
Writing Notes To Yourself	p. 299
Using the %	p. 299
Invisible reminders	p. 299
Visible reminders	p. 300
The LATEX /typeout and /typein commands	p. 301
Formatting in Math Mode	p. 303
Math Symbols, Alphabets and Grammar	p. 305
Built-in Symbols	p. 306
Greek letters, booleans, integrals and sums	p. 306
Some common mathematical operators	p. 307
Math accents	p. 308
Adding ordinary text in math mode	p. 309
Modifying the Appearance of Equations	p. 310
Changing math type style	p. 310
Space wedges	p. 312
Size	p. 313
Creating a New Math Alphabet Command Name	p. 315
Adding Math Symbols	p. 318
Writing, Protecting and Revising Math Macros	p. 320
Writing a math macro	p. 320
Redefining the math macro	p. 321
Lemmas, Axioms and Conjectures	p. 322
Single Line Math Modes	p. 325
Unnumbered Equation in Running Text	p. 325
displaymath for a Single Unnumbered Equation	p. 326
A Numbered Equation on a Separate Line	p. 327
Arrays: Multi-Line Math Mode	p. 329
Creating an Array	p. 329
Formatting in Box Mode	p. 337
Box Mode	p. 339
The Single Line Box: makebox, framebox	p. 340
The makebox and mbox commands	p. 340
framebox and fbox commands	p. 341
Changing the appearance of the frame	p. 342
Fancy frames	p. 344
The Paragraph Box: Parboxes and Minipages	p. 345
The parbox	p. 345
The minipage environment	p. 348
Framing the minipage	p. 354
The Inked Rectangle: The Rulebox	p. 356
Solid boxes	p. 356
Struts	p. 358
Sizing the Box in Relative Terms	p. 358
Saving Designs	p. 362
Enhancements to the Text	p. 369
Creating Pictures and Graphics	p. 371
Creating Pictures in LATEX	p. 371
Positioning the picture	p. 372
Picture commands	p. 372
Additional graphics packages	p. 374
The xv Package	p. 376
The XFig Package	p. 379
The XPaint Package	p. 382
ImageMagick	p. 382
GIMP	p. 386
Packages for Ready Money	p. 388
Inserting Completed Pictures and Graphics	p. 391
Step 1: Linking the Printer Driver and graphicx	p. 392
Step 2: Size Information in the EPS File	p. 393
The BoundingBox	p. 394
The calc package	p. 396
Step 3: Using the /includegraphics Command	p. 398
//includegraphics Options	p. 401
Resetting the BoundingBox	p. 402
viewport: resetting the part of the picture to exhibit	p. 403
Resetting exhibition width	p. 403
Resetting exhibition height	p. 404
Scaling: another way to reset size	p. 404
Resetting exhibition orientation	p. 405
The interaction between size and orientation	p. 408
Resetting the origin of rotation	p. 411
Color	p. 411
Saving space with a EPS repetitive image	p. 417
Draft version	p. 420
Other graphicx commands	p. 420
Completing the Document	p. 421
Bibliographic References	p. 423
BibTEX	p. 425
The thebibliography Environment	p. 427
Components of a thebibliography item	p. 428
Putting a reference list at the end of each chapter	p. 428
The thebibliography reference list	p. 430
Citing A Reference	p. 432
Making a Table of Contents	p. 433
The tableofcontents Command	p. 433
Modifying and Deleting Items from TOC	p. 434
Adding Items to TOC	p. 435
Editing TOC Under Emacs	p. 436
Making an Index	p. 437
Tagging Index Items	p. 437
Using the makeindex Program	p. 437
Using Just the theindex Environment	p. 439
Creating a Glossary	p. 443
Designing Style Sheets	p. 445
Measurements: Counters and Lengths	p. 447
Counters	p. 447
Determining the current value of a counter	p. 449
Creating a new counter	p. 449
Using setcounter to give the counter a value	p. 450
Using addtocounter to increment a counter	p. 451
Setting the style of a counter	p. 452
Using usecounter to style list item numbering	p. 453
Length Measures	p. 454
Defining a new length	p. 454
Setting a length command	p. 454
Increasing/Decreasing a length	p. 455
setto commands	p. 455
Finding out the current size of a length measure	p. 456
Rigid versus relative versus rubber measurements	p. 456
A Page Template	p. 459
Page Measurements	p. 459
Rules of Thumb	p. 464
Headers and Footers	p. 464
The built-in LATEX formats	p. 464
Using fancyheadings	p. 466
Ensuring empty pages are empty of headers	p. 473
Forcing a Page Break	p. 474
Numbering Pages	p. 476
Styles for numbering pages	p. 476
Resetting the page number	p. 476
Special Pages	p. 477
Creating a Style Sheet	p. 481
Resources for Creating Style Sheets	p. 481
Large Software Packages that Are LATEX-related	p. 483
Packages that Are Bundled with LATEX	p. 484
Modular Packages versus Do-It-Yourself	p. 486
Slides	p. 488
Letters	p. 490
FAX Formats	p. 494
Front Covers	p. 495
Chapter Starts	p. 498
Footnotes and End Notes	p. 501
Appendix	p. 505
Constructing a root File	p. 507
The root File	p. 507
Controlling the Processing of Files	p. 510
Summary	p. 511
Converting Html to LATEX and the Reverse	p. 515
Using typehtml To Convert HTML to LATEX	p. 515
The HTML Markup	p. 515
An example of typehtml usage	p. 516
The LATEX output	p. 517
Using LATEX2HTML to Convert LATEX to HTML	p. 518
Obtaining LATEX2HTML	p. 518
The Resulting HTML Code	p. 519
Reconverting HTML To LATEX With typehtml	p. 522
Summary	p. 523
List of References	p. 525
Index and Glossary	p. 533
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