LaTeX2e入门经典：The Not So Short Introduction
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"The Not So Short Introduction to LATEX 2 或 LATEX2e"
《The Not So Short Introduction to LATEX 2ε》是一本经典的LATEX入门教程，适合初学者从零开始学习。这本教程由Tobias Oetiker、Hubert Partl、Irene Hyna和Elizabeth Schlegl共同编写，并且版本更新至某个Beta版的特定日期。它被声明为"公共领域"文档，允许自由打印和分发原始形式，包括作者列表。如果进行修改或在其他文档中使用部分内容，必须包含所有原始作者以及做出修改的作者。当此文档用于商业用途时，将适用GNU版权。
该教程的内容很大程度上源自一本由Hubert Partl、Irene Hyna和Elizabeth Schlegl用德语编写的奥地利LATEX入门指南。这些作者分别来自维也纳的University for Bodenkultur的中央信息技术服务部门、维也纳的联邦科学与研究部以及格拉茨的某机构。
LATEX是一种基于TeX的文字处理系统，用于高质量的排版和类型设置，尤其适用于数学公式、科技论文和技术文档。通过LATEX，用户可以使用简单的命令结构来创建复杂的文档布局，无需关注细节，从而专注于内容。在《The Not So Short Introduction to LATEX 2ε》中，读者可以学习到如何安装LATEX环境，理解基本的文档结构，如文章、报告或书籍类别的创建，以及如何插入标题、段落、列表、图片和表格。此外，教程还会介绍如何编写数学公式，使用引用、索引和目录，以及定制文档样式和模板。
此外，教程还涵盖了宏包的使用，宏包是扩展LATEX功能的库，例如graphicx用于插入图像，amsmath提供高级数学排版工具，hyperref则用于创建超链接和PDF元数据。在排版技术方面，读者将了解如何调整页面布局、字体和颜色，以及如何自定义章节样式。
对于那些想要深入学习的人，教程可能还会涉及编译流程（如pdflatex、bibtex等）、版本控制（如git）以及协同编辑工具（如Overleaf）。最后，为了帮助读者更好地掌握LATEX，教程可能包含练习题和示例项目，以实现理论与实践的结合。
《The Not So Short Introduction to LATEX 2ε》是一本全面而详尽的LATEX学习资料，对于任何希望提升文档排版技能的人来说，都是不可或缺的资源。通过深入学习，读者将能够熟练地利用LATEX创建专业级别的学术论文、报告和技术文档。
2 Things You Need to Know
1.2 Basics
1.2.1 Author, Bo ok Designer, and Typ esetter
To publish something, authors give their typed manuscript to a publish-
ing company. A b ook designer of the publishing company then decides the
layout of the do cument (column width, fonts, space b efore and after head-
ings, . . . ). The b ook designer writes his instructions into the manuscript
and then gives it to a typesetter, who typesets the b ook according to these
instructions.
A human b ook designer tries to nd out what the author had in mind
while writing the manuscript. He decides on chapter headings, citations,
examples, formulae, etc. based on his professional knowledge and from the
contents of the manuscript.
In a L
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uses T
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needs more guidance. The author has to provide additional information
which describ es the logical structure of his work. This information is written
into the text as \L
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This is quite dierent from the WYSIWYG
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approach which most mo d-
ern word processors such as
Word for Windows
or
WordPerfect
take. With
these applications, authors sp ecify the do cument layout interactively while
typing text into the computer. All along the way, they can see on the screen
how the nal work will lo ok when it is printed.
When using L
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while typing the text. But the nal output can be previewed on the screen
after pro cessing the le with L
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X. Then corrections can b e made b efore
actually sending the document to the printer.
1.2.2 Layout Design
Typographical design is a craft. Unskilled authors often commit serious
formatting errors by assuming that b o ok design is mostly a question of
aesthetics|\If a do cument lo oks go od artistically it is well designed." But
as a do cument has to be read and not hung up in a picture gallery, the
readability and understandability is of much greater imp ortance than the
beautiful look of it. Examples:
The font size and numb ering of headings have to be chosen to make
the structure of chapters and sections clear to the reader.
The line length has to b e short enough that it do es not strain the eyes
of the reader, while long enough to ll the page b eautifully.
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What you see is what you get.
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