Learning LaTeX, Second Edition

Why do you need to learn LaTeX? LaTeX has become an extremely popular typesetting system and is widely used throughout the sciences. As a student, you may need to typeset reports and theses in LaTeX (particularly if you are a graduate student in any mathematics or computer science discipline). Or you may be someone who had planned to "eventually" get around to learning LaTeX, but you are still using older or less appropriate methods of typesetting. Procrastinate no more!

This second edition of the well-regarded and highly successful book includes additional material on the American Mathematical Society packages for typesetting additional mathematical symbols and multi-line displays; the BiBTeX program for creating bibliographies; the Beamer package for creating presentations; and the a0poster class for creating posters.

Audience: The text is aimed at advanced undergraduate and graduate students in computational engineering. It may also be useful to physicists, computational scientists, and developers of numerical simulation software.

Contents: Chapter 1: Preamble; Chapter 2: Basic LaTeX; Chapter 3: Typesetting Mathematics; Chapter 4: Further Essential LaTeX; Chapter 5: More About LaTeX; Appendix A: A Sample Article; Appendix B: A Sample Report; Appendix C: A Sample Presentation; Appendix D: A Sample Poster; Appendix E: Internet Resources.