Table of Contents

Foreword.-Preface to the fifth Edition.-Introduction.-I. Mission Impossible.-1. Short course.-2. And a few more things....-II. Text and Math.-3. Typing text.-4. Text environments.-5. Typing math.-6. More math.-7. Multiline math displays.-III. Document Structure.-8. Documents.-9. The AMS article document class.-10. Legacy documents.-IV. PDF Documents.-11. The PDF file format.-12. Presentations.-13. Illustrations.-V. Customization.-14. Commands and environments.-VI. Long Documents.-15. BibTeX.-16. MakeIndex.-17. Books in LaTeX.-A. Math symbol tables.-B. Text symbol tables.-C. Some background.-D. LaTeX and the internet.-E. Postscript fonts.-F. LaTeX localized.-G. LaTeX on the iPad.-H. Final thoughts.-Bibliography.-Index.

About the Author

George Grätzer is Emeritus Doctor of Science at the University of Manitoba. He has authored three other books on LaTex: First Steps in LaTeX and Math into LateX, and Practical LaTeX. Math into LaTeX was chosen by the Mathematics Editor of Amazon.com as one of the ten best books of 2000. Grätzer has also written many articles and a few books on the subject of lattices and universal algebra. In addition, Grätzer is the founder of the international mathematical journal, Algebra Universalis.

Reviews

“George Grätzer’s books have been nearly as successful and enduring as the amazing software they are devoted to. This well known manual provides a reliable and thorough introduction and comprehensive reference for everyone who does not want to depend on various resources available online.” (C. Baxa, Monatshefte für Mathematik, Vol. 192 (2), 2020)