Preface
First Edition
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in an easy a nd quick way va rious documents, such as letters, papers, reports,
theses, and so o n. Here, “ one” can be a new student, an old professor, or even
somebo dy who is not linked at all with any academic stuff.
We often want s pecial constructs in our documents. This is more difficult
than basic type setting, especially using L
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X when you are not experienced.
On one hand, scientists do not always have the time to learn another
programming language, especially if they are making a PhD, or doing
something else which asks for a lot of time. Using direct and working
programming tricks can speed up your productivity, and ma ke you learning
better. But where can they be found?
On the o ther hand, everybody wants to make nice documents, if possible.
A nicer document attracts the reader. Evidently, “a nice document” is a
subjective notion. By “nice document,” we want to speak about a document
which
1. is structured in an unambiguous way, and has a clear presentation,
2. is read with pleasure, if possible.
The beginner, whoever he is, often faces strange errors because he tries to
teach L
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notions about L
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X, even in an average period of time. The good books have
to be found. But that is often the moment where you lack of time and that
you are happy to find complete solutions. That is a moment where you tell to
yourself “Is there no folk out there to give me such a tr ivial tip?” but nobody
hears it. The aim of this book, is to avoid you these problems: you do not need
to write everything from scratch, ask on various forums or Usenet groups, or
even read heaps of books just to make a simple script. T hat is my goal. You
can now continue writing your do c ument in L
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X’s philosophy: co nce ntrating
on your document’s content, at the place of its appearence.
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