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The Not So Short
Introduction to LATEX 2
Or LATEX 2 in 157 minutes
by Tobias Oetiker
Hubert Partl, Irene Hyna and Elisabeth Schlegl
Version 5.06, June 20, 2016

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Thank you!
Much of the material used in this introduction comes from an Austrian

introduction to LATEX 2.09 written in German by:
Hubert Partl <[email protected]>
Zentraler Informatikdienst der Universitt fr Bodenkultur Wien
Irene Hyna <[email protected]>
Bundesministerium fr Wissenschaft und Forschung Wien
Elisabeth Schlegl <noemail>
in Graz
If you are interested in the German document, you can find a version
updated for LATEX 2 by Jrg Knappen at CTAN://info/lshort/german
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The following individuals helped with corrections, suggestions and material

to improve this paper. They put in a big effort to help me get this document
into its present shape. I would like to sincerely thank all of them. Naturally,
all the mistakes youll find in this book are mine. If you ever find a word
that is spelled correctly, it must have been one of the people below dropping
me a line.
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Friedemann Brauer, Markus Brhwiler, Jan Busa, David Carlisle, Neil Carter,
Carl Cerecke, Mike Chapman, Pierre Chardaire, Xingyou Chen, Christopher Chin,
Diego Clavadetscher, Wim van Dam, Benjamin Deschwanden Jan Dittberner,
Michael John Downes, Matthias Dreier, David Dureisseix, Hans Ehrbar, Elliot, Rock-
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mus Borup Hansen, Joseph Hilferty, Daniel Hirsbrunner, Martien Hulsen, Bjrn
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Tobias Krewer, Flori Lambrechts, Mike Lee, Maik Lehradt, Rmi Letot, Axel Liljen-
crantz, Jasper Loy, Johan Lundberg, Martin Maechler, Alexander Mai, Claus Malten,
Kevin Van Maren, Pablo Markin, I. J. Vera Marn, Hendrik Maryns, Chris Mc-
Cormack, Aleksandar S. Milosevic, Henrik Mitsch, Stefan M. Moser, Armin Mller,
Philipp Nagele, Richard Nagy, Manuel Oetiker, Urs Oswald, Hubert Partl, Marcelo Pasin,
Martin Pfister, Lan Thuy Pham, Breno Pietracci, Demerson Andre Polli, Maksym Polyakov,
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lecher, Chris Rowley, Young U. Ryu, Risto Saarelma, Andrs Salamon, Jos Car-
los Santos, Christopher Sawtell, Gilles Schintgen, Craig Schlenter, Hanspeter Schmid,
Baron Schwartz, Jordi Serra i Solanich, Miles Spielberg, Susan Stewart, Matthieu Stigler,
Geoffrey Swindale, Laszlo Szathmary, Boris Tobotras, Josef Tkadlec, Scott Veirs,
Didier Verna, Carl-Gustav Werner, Fabian Wernli, Matthew Widmann, David Wood-
house, Chris York, Rick Zaccone, Fritz Zaucker, and Mikhail Zotov.
Preface
LATEX [1] is a typesetting system that is very suitable for producing scientific
and mathematical documents of high typographical quality. It is also suitable
for producing all sorts of other documents, from simple letters to complete
books. LATEX uses TEX [2] as its formatting engine.
This short introduction describes LATEX 2 and should be sufficient for
most applications of LATEX. Refer to [1, 3] for a complete description of the
LATEX system.
This introduction is split into 6 chapters:
Chapter 1 tells you about the basic structure of LATEX 2 documents. You
will also learn a bit about the history of LATEX. After reading this
chapter, you should have a rough understanding how LATEX works.
Chapter 2 goes into the details of typesetting your documents. It explains

most of the essential LATEX commands and environments. After reading
this chapter, you will be able to write your first documents.
Chapter 3 explains how to typeset formulae with LATEX. Many examples

demonstrate how to use one of LATEXs main strengths. At the end
of the chapter are tables listing all mathematical symbols available in
LATEX.
Chapter 4 explains indexes, bibliography generation and inclusion of EPS

graphics. It introduces creation of PDF documents with pdfLATEX and
presents some handy extension packages.
Chapter 5 shows how to use LATEX for creating graphics. Instead of drawing
a picture with some graphics program, saving it to a file and then
including it into LATEX, you describe the picture and have LATEX draw
it for you.
Chapter 6 contains some potentially dangerous information about how to

alter the standard document layout produced by LATEX. It will tell you
how to change things such that the beautiful output of LATEX turns
ugly or stunning, depending on your abilities.
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It is important to read the chapters in orderthe book is not that big, after
all. Be sure to carefully read the examples, because a lot of the information
is in the examples placed throughout the book.
LATEX is available for most computers, from the PC and Mac to large UNIX
and VMS systems. On many university computer clusters you will find that
a LATEX installation is available, ready to use. Information on how to access
the local LATEX installation should be provided in the Local Guide [5]. If you
have problems getting started, ask the person who gave you this booklet.
The scope of this document is not to tell you how to install and set up a
LATEX system, but to teach you how to write your documents so that they
can be processed by LATEX.
If you need to get hold of any LATEX related material, have a look at one of
the Comprehensive TEX Archive Network (CTAN) sites. The homepage is
at http://www.ctan.org.
You will find other references to CTAN throughout the book, especially
pointers to software and documents you might want to download. Instead of
writing down complete urls, I just wrote CTAN: followed by whatever location
within the CTAN tree you should go to.
If you want to run LATEX on your own computer, take a look at what is
available from CTAN://systems.
If you have ideas for something to be added, removed or altered in this

document, please let me know. I am especially interested in feedback from
LATEX novices about which bits of this intro are easy to understand and
which could be explained better.
Tobias Oetiker <[email protected]>
OETIKER+PARTNER AG
Aarweg 15
4600 Olten
Switzerland
The current version of this document is available on

CTAN://info/lshort
Contents
Thank you! iii
Preface v
1 Things You Need to Know 1

1.1 The Name of the Game . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.1.1 TEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.1.2 LATEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.2 Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.2.1 Author, Book Designer, and Typesetter . . . . . . . . 2
1.2.2 Layout Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.2.3 Advantages and Disadvantages . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.3 LATEX Input Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.3.1 Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.3.2 Special Characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.3.3 LATEX Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.3.4 Comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
1.4 Input File Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
1.5 A Typical Command Line Session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
1.6 The Layout of the Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
1.6.1 Document Classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
1.6.2 Packages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
1.6.3 Page Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
1.7 Files You Might Encounter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
1.8 Big Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
2 Typesetting Text 17
2.1 The Structure of Text and Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
2.2 Line Breaking and Page Breaking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
2.2.1 Justified Paragraphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
2.2.2 Hyphenation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
2.3 Ready-Made Strings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
2.4 Special Characters and Symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
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2.4.1 Quotation Marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

2.4.2 Dashes and Hyphens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
2.4.3 Tilde () . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
2.4.4 Slash (/) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
2.4.5 Degree Symbol () . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
2.4.6 The Euro Currency Symbol (e) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
2.4.7 Ellipsis (. . . ) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
2.4.8 Ligatures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
2.4.9 Accents and Special Characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
2.5 International Language Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
2.5.1 Support for Portuguese . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
2.5.2 Support for French . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
2.5.3 Support for German . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
2.5.4 Support for Korean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
2.5.5 Writing in Greek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
2.5.6 Support for Cyrillic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
2.5.7 Support for Mongolian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
2.5.8 The Unicode option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
2.6 The Space Between Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
2.7 Titles, Chapters, and Sections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
2.8 Cross References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
2.9 Footnotes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
2.10 Emphasized Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
2.11 Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
2.11.1 Itemize, Enumerate, and Description . . . . . . . . . . 42
2.11.2 Flushleft, Flushright, and Center . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
2.11.3 Quote, Quotation, and Verse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
2.11.4 Abstract . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
2.11.5 Printing Verbatim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
2.11.6 Tabular . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
2.12 Floating Bodies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
2.13 Protecting Fragile Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
3 Typesetting Mathematical Formulae 53

3.1 The AMS-LATEX bundle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
3.2 Single Equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
3.2.1 Math Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
3.3 Building Blocks of a Mathematical Formula . . . . . . . . . . 56
3.4 Single Equations that are Too Long: multline . . . . . . . . . 61
3.5 Multiple Equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
3.5.1 Problems with Traditional Commands . . . . . . . . . 62
3.5.2 IEEEeqnarray Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
3.5.3 Common Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
3.6 Arrays and Matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
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3.7 Spacing in Math Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

3.7.1 Phantoms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
3.8 Fiddling with the Math Fonts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
3.8.1 Bold Symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
3.9 Theorems, Lemmas, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
3.9.1 Proofs and End-of-Proof Symbol . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
3.10 List of Mathematical Symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
4 Specialities 83
4.1 Including Encapsulated PostScript . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
4.2 Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
4.3 Indexing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
4.4 Fancy Headers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
4.5 The Verbatim Package . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
4.6 Installing Extra Packages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
4.7 Working with pdfLATEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
4.7.1 PDF Documents for the Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
4.7.2 The Fonts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
4.7.3 Using Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
4.7.4 Hypertext Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
4.7.5 Problems with Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
4.7.6 Problems with Bookmarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
4.7.7 Source Compatibility Between LATEX and pdfLATEX . . 97
4.8 Working with XELATEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
4.8.1 The Fonts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
4.8.2 Compatibility Between XELATEX and pdfLATEX . . . . 100
4.9 Creating Presentations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
5 Producing Mathematical Graphics 105

5.1 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
5.2 The picture Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
5.2.1 Basic Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
5.2.2 Line Segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
5.2.3 Arrows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
5.2.4 Circles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
5.2.5 Text and Formulas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
5.2.6 \multiput and \linethickness . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
5.2.7 Ovals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
5.2.8 Multiple Use of Predefined Picture Boxes . . . . . . . 112
5.2.9 Quadratic Bzier Curves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
5.2.10 Catenary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
5.2.11 Rapidity in the Special Theory of Relativity . . . . . . 115
5.3 The PGF and TikZ Graphics Packages . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
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6 Customising LATEX 119

6.1 New Commands, Environments and Packages . . . . . . . . . 119
6.1.1 New Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
6.1.2 New Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
6.1.3 Extra Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
6.1.4 Commandline LATEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
6.1.5 Your Own Package . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
6.2 Fonts and Sizes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
6.2.1 Font Changing Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
6.2.2 Danger, Will Robinson, Danger . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
6.2.3 Advice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
6.3 Spacing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
6.3.1 Line Spacing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
6.3.2 Paragraph Formatting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
6.3.3 Horizontal Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
6.3.4 Vertical Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
6.4 Page Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
6.5 More Fun With Lengths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
6.6 Boxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
6.7 Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
A Installing LATEX 137

A.1 What to Install . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
A.2 Cross Platform Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
A.3 TEX on Mac OS X . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
A.3.1 TEX Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
A.3.2 OSX TEX Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
A.3.3 Treat yourself to PDFView . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
A.4 TEX on Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
A.4.1 Getting TEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
A.4.2 A LATEX editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
A.4.3 Document Preview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
A.4.4 Working with graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
A.5 TEX on Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Bibliography 141
Index 144
List of Figures
1.1 A Minimal LATEX File. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

1.2 Example of a Realistic Journal Article. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
4.1 Example fancyhdr Setup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

4.2 Sample code for the beamer class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
6.1 Example Package. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

6.2 Layout parameters for this book. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
List of Tables
1.1 Document Classes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

1.2 Document Class Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
1.3 Some of the Packages Distributed with LATEX. . . . . . . . . . 12
1.4 The Predefined Page Styles of LATEX. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
2.1 A bag full of Euro symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

2.2 Accents and Special Characters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
2.3 Preamble for Portuguese documents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
2.4 Special commands for French. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
2.5 German Special Characters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
2.6 Preamble for Greek documents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
2.7 Greek Special Characters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
2.8 Bulgarian, Russian, and Ukrainian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
2.9 Float Placing Permissions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
3.1 Math Mode Accents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

3.2 Greek Letters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
3.3 Binary Relations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
3.4 Binary Operators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
3.5 BIG Operators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
3.6 Arrows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
3.7 Arrows as Accents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
3.8 Delimiters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
3.9 Large Delimiters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
3.10 Miscellaneous Symbols. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
3.11 Non-Mathematical Symbols. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
3.12 AMS Delimiters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
3.13 AMS Greek and Hebrew. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
3.14 Math Alphabets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
3.15 AMS Binary Operators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
3.16 AMS Binary Relations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
3.17 AMS Arrows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
3.18 AMS Negated Binary Relations and Arrows. . . . . . . . . . 82
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3.19 AMS Miscellaneous. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
4.1 Key Names for graphicx Package. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

4.2 Index Key Syntax Examples. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
6.1 Fonts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

6.2 Font Sizes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
6.3 Absolute Point Sizes in Standard Classes. . . . . . . . . . . . 125
6.4 Math Fonts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
6.5 TEX Units. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Chapter 1
Things You Need to Know
The first part of this chapter presents a short overview of the philosophy and
history of LATEX 2 . The second part focuses on the basic structures of a LATEX
document. After reading this chapter, you should have a rough knowledge of
how LATEX works, which you will need to understand the rest of this book.
1.1 The Name of the Game

1.1.1 TEX
TEX is a computer program created by Donald E. Knuth [2]. It is aimed at
typesetting text and mathematical formulae. Knuth started writing the TEX
typesetting engine in 1977 to explore the potential of the digital printing
equipment that was beginning to infiltrate the publishing industry at that
time, especially in the hope that he could reverse the trend of deteriorating
typographical quality that he saw affecting his own books and articles. TEX
as we use it today was released in 1982, with some slight enhancements added
in 1989 to better support 8-bit characters and multiple languages. TEX is
renowned for being extremely stable, for running on many different kinds of
computers, and for being virtually bug free. The version number of TEX is
converging to and is now at 3.141592653.
TEX is pronounced Tech, with a ch as in the German word Ach1 or
in the Scottish Loch. The ch originates from the Greek alphabet where
X is the letter ch or chi. TEX is also the first syllable of the Greek word
(technique). In an ASCII environment, TEX becomes TeX.
1
In german there are actually two pronunciations for ch and one might assume that
the soft ch sound from Pech would be a more appropriate. Asked about this, Knuth
wrote in the German Wikipedia: I do not get angry when people pronounce TEX in their
favorite way . . . and in Germany many use a soft ch because the X follows the vowel e, not
the harder ch that follows the vowel a. In Russia, tex is a very common word, pronounced
tyekh. But I believe the most proper pronunciation is heard in Greece, where you have the
harsher ch of ach and Loch.
2 Things You Need to Know
1.1.2 LATEX
LATEX enables authors to typeset and print their work at the highest typo-
graphical quality, using a predefined, professional layout. LATEX was originally
written by Leslie Lamport [1]. It uses the TEX formatter as its typesetting
engine. These days LATEX is maintained by Frank Mittelbach.
LATEX is pronounced Lay-tech or Lah-tech. If you refer to LATEX in
an ASCII environment, you type LaTeX. LATEX 2 is pronounced Lay-tech
two e and typed LaTeX2e.
1.2 Basics
1.2.1 Author, Book Designer, and Typesetter
To publish something, authors give their typed manuscript to a publishing
company. One of their book designers then decides the layout of the document
(column width, fonts, space before and after headings, . . . ). The book designer
writes his instructions into the manuscript and then gives it to a typesetter,
who typesets the book according to these instructions.
A human book designer tries to find 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 LATEX environment, LATEX takes the role of the book designer and
uses TEX as its typesetter. But LATEX is only a program and therefore
needs more guidance. The author has to provide additional information to
describe the logical structure of his work. This information is written into
the text as LATEX commands.
This is quite different from the WYSIWYG2 approach that most modern
word processors, such as MS Word or LibreOffice, take. With these applica-
tions, authors specify the document layout interactively while typing text
into the computer. They can see on the screen how the final work will look
when it is printed.
When using LATEX it is not normally possible to see the final output while
typing the text, but the final output can be previewed on the screen after
processing the file with LATEX. Then corrections can be made before 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 book design is mostly a question of
aestheticsIf a document looks good artistically, it is well designed. But
2
What you see is what you get.
1.2 Basics 3
as a document has to be read and not hung up in a picture gallery, the

readability and understandability is much more important than the beautiful
look of it. Examples:
The font size and the numbering of headings have to be chosen to make
the structure of chapters and sections clear to the reader.
The line length has to be short enough not to strain the eyes of the
reader, while long enough to fill the page beautifully.
With WYSIWYG systems, authors often generate aesthetically pleasing

documents with very little or inconsistent structure. LATEX prevents such
formatting errors by forcing the author to declare the logical structure of his
document. LATEX then chooses the most suitable layout.
1.2.3 Advantages and Disadvantages

When people from the WYSIWYG world meet people who use LATEX, they
often discuss the advantages of LATEX over a normal word processor or the
opposite. The best thing to do when such a discussion starts is to keep a low
profile, since such discussions often get out of hand. But sometimes there is
no escaping . . .
So here is some ammunition. The main advantages of LATEX over normal
word processors are the following:
Professionally crafted layouts are available, which make a document

really look as if printed.
The typesetting of mathematical formulae is supported in a convenient

way.
Users only need to learn a few easy-to-understand commands that

specify the logical structure of a document. They almost never need to
tinker with the actual layout of the document.
Even complex structures such as footnotes, references, table of contents,

and bibliographies can be generated easily.
Free add-on packages exist for many typographical tasks not directly
supported by basic LATEX. For example, packages are available to
include PostScript graphics or to typeset bibliographies conforming
to exact standards. Many of these add-on packages are described in
The LATEX Companion [3].
LATEX encourages authors to write well-structured texts, because this

is how LATEX worksby specifying structure.
TEX, the formatting engine of LATEX 2 , is highly portable and free.

Therefore the system runs on almost any hardware platform available.
LATEX also has some disadvantages, and I guess its a bit difficult for me to
find any sensible ones, though I am sure other people can tell you hundreds
;-)
LATEX does not work well for people who have sold their souls . . .
Although some parameters can be adjusted within a predefined docu-

ment layout, the design of a whole new layout is difficult and takes a
lot of time.3
It is very hard to write unstructured and disorganized documents.
Your hamster might, despite some encouraging first steps, never be

able to fully grasp the concept of Logical Markup.
1.3 LATEX Input Files

The input for LATEX is a plain text file. On Unix/Linux text files are pretty
common. On windows, one would use Notepad to create a text file. It
contains the text of the document, as well as the commands that tell LATEX
how to typeset the text. If you are working with a LATEX IDE, it will contain
a program for creating LATEX input files in text format.
1.3.1 Spaces
Whitespace characters, such as blank or tab, are treated uniformly as
space by LATEX. Several consecutive whitespace characters are treated as
one space. Whitespace at the start of a line is generally ignored, and a
single line break is treated as whitespace.
An empty line between two lines of text defines the end of a paragraph.
Several empty lines are treated the same as one empty line. The text below
is an example. On the left hand side is the text from the input file, and on
the right hand side is the formatted output.
It does not matter whether you

enter one or several spaces It does not matter whether you enter one
after a word. or several spaces after a word.
An empty line starts a new An empty line starts a new paragraph.
paragraph.
3
Rumour says that this is one of the key elements that will be addressed in the upcoming
LAT
EX3 system.
1.3 LATEX Input Files 5
1.3.2 Special Characters

The following symbols are reserved characters that either have a special
meaning under LATEX or are not available in all the fonts. If you enter them
directly in your text, they will normally not print, but rather coerce LATEX
to do things you did not intend.
# $ % ^ & _ { } ~ \
As you will see, these characters can be used in your documents all the
same by using a prefix backslash:
\# \$ \% \^{} \& \_ \{ \} \~{}

#$%&_{}\
\textbackslash
The other symbols and many more can be printed with special commands
in mathematical formulae or as accents. The backslash character \ can not
be entered by adding another backslash in front of it (\\); this sequence is
used for line breaking. Use the \textbackslash command instead.
1.3.3 LATEX Commands

LATEX commands are case sensitive, and take one of the following two formats:
They start with a backslash \ and then have a name consisting of

letters only. Command names are terminated by a space, a number or
any other non-letter.
They consist of a backslash and exactly one non-letter.
Many commands exist in a starred variant where a star is appended
to the command name.
LATEX ignores whitespace after commands. If you want to get a space after
a command, you have to put either an empty parameter {} and a blank or a
special spacing command after the command name. The empty parameter
{} stops LATEX from eating up all the white space after the command name.
New \TeX users may miss whitespaces

New TEXusers may miss whitespaces af-
after a command. % renders wrong
ter a command. Experienced TEX users
Experienced \TeX{} users are
are TEXperts, and know how to use white-
\TeX perts, and know how to use
spaces.
whitespaces. % renders correct
Some commands require a parameter, which has to be given between

curly braces { } after the command name. Some commands take optional
parameters, which are inserted after the command name in square brack-
ets [ ].
\command[optional parameter]{parameter}
The next examples use some LATEX commands. Dont worry about them;
they will be explained later.
You can \textsl{lean} on me! You can lean on me!
Please, start a new line

Please, start a new line right here!
right here!\newline
Thank you!
Thank you!
1.3.4 Comments
When LATEX encounters a % character while processing an input file, it ignores
the rest of the present line, the line break, and all whitespace at the beginning
of the next line.
This can be used to write notes into the input file, which will not show
up in the printed version.
This is an % stupid
% Better: instructive <----
This is an example: Supercalifragilisticex-
example: Supercal%
pialidocious
ifragilist%
icexpialidocious
The % character can also be used to split long input lines where no
whitespace or line breaks are allowed.
For longer comments you could use the comment environment provided by
the verbatim package. Add the line \usepackage{verbatim} to the preamble
of your document as explained below to use this command.
This is another
\begin{comment}
rather stupid,
This is another example for embedding
but helpful
comments in your document.
\end{comment}
example for embedding
comments in your document.
Note that this wont work inside complex environments, like math for
example.
1.4 Input File Structure 7
1.4 Input File Structure

When LATEX 2 processes an input file, it expects it to follow a certain
structure. Thus every input file must start with the command
\documentclass{...}
This specifies what sort of document you intend to write. After that, add
commands to influence the style of the whole document, or load packages
that add new features to the LATEX system. To load such a package you use
the command
\usepackage{...}
When all the setup work is done,4 you start the body of the text with
the command
\begin{document}
Now you enter the text mixed with some useful LATEX commands. At
the end of the document you add the
\end{document}
command, which tells LATEX to call it a day. Anything that follows this
command will be ignored by LATEX.
Figure 1.1 shows the contents of a minimal LATEX 2 file. A slightly more
complicated input file is given in Figure 1.2.
1.5 A Typical Command Line Session

I bet you must be dying to try out the neat small LATEX input file shown
on page 7. Here is some help: LATEX itself comes without a GUI or fancy
buttons to press. It is just a program that crunches away at your input file.
Some LATEX installations feature a graphical front-end where there is a LATEX
button to start compiling your input file. On other systems there might be
4
The area between \documentclass and \begin{document} is called the preamble.
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
Small is beautiful.
\end{document}
Figure 1.1: A Minimal LATEX File.

some typing involved, so here is how to coax LATEX into compiling your input
file on a text based system. Please note: this description assumes that a
working LATEX installation already sits on your computer.5
1. Edit/Create your LATEX input file. This file must be plain ASCII text.
On Unix all the editors will create just that. On Windows you might
want to make sure that you save the file in ASCII or Plain Text format.
When picking a name for your file, make sure it bears the extension
.tex.
2. Open a shell or cmd window, cd to the directory where your input file
is located and run LATEX on your input file. If successful you will end
up with a .dvi file. It may be necessary to run LATEX several times to
get the table of contents and all internal references right. When your
input file has a bug LATEX will tell you about it and stop processing
your input file. Type ctrl-D to get back to the command line.
latex foo.tex
3. Now you may view the DVI file. There are several ways to do that.
5
This is the case with most well groomed Unix Systems, and . . . Real Men use Unix,
so . . . ;-)
\documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{article}
% define the title
\author{H.~Partl}
\title{Minimalism}
\begin{document}
% generates the title
\maketitle
% insert the table of contents
\tableofcontents
\section{Some Interesting Words}
Well, and here begins my lovely article.
\section{Good Bye World}
\ldots{} and here it ends.
\end{document}
Figure 1.2: Example of a Realistic Journal Article. Note that all the
commands you see in this example will be explained later in the introduction.
1.6 The Layout of the Document 9
Look at the file on screen with
xdvi foo.dvi &
This only works on Unix with X11. If you are on Windows you might
want to try yap (yet another previewer).
Convert the dvi file to PostScript for printing or viewing with
GhostScript.
dvips -Pcmz foo.dvi -o foo.ps
If you are lucky your LATEX system even comes with the dvipdf tool,
which allows you to convert your .dvi files straight into pdf.
dvipdf foo.dvi
1.6 The Layout of the Document

1.6.1 Document Classes
The first information LATEX needs to know when processing an input file is
the type of document the author wants to create. This is specified with the
\documentclass command.
\documentclass[options]{class}
Here class specifies the type of document to be created. Table 1.1 lists the
document classes explained in this introduction. The LATEX 2 distribution
provides additional classes for other documents, including letters and slides.
The options parameter customises the behaviour of the document class. The
options have to be separated by commas. The most common options for the
standard document classes are listed in Table 1.2.
Example: An input file for a LATEX document could start with the line
\documentclass[11pt,twoside,a4paper]{article}
which instructs LATEX to typeset the document as an article with a base

font size of eleven points, and to produce a layout suitable for double sided
printing on A4 paper.
1.6.2 Packages
While writing your document, you will probably find that there are some
areas where basic LATEX cannot solve your problem. If you want to include
graphics, coloured text or source code from a file into your document, you
need to enhance the capabilities of LATEX. Such enhancements are called
packages. Packages are activated with the
\usepackage[options]{package}
command, where package is the name of the package and options is a list
of keywords that trigger special features in the package. The \usepackage
command goes into the preamble of the document. See section 1.4 for details.
Some packages come with the LATEX 2 base distribution (See Table 1.3).
Others are provided separately. You may find more information on the
packages installed at your site in your Local Guide [5]. The prime source for
information about LATEX packages is The LATEX Companion [3]. It contains
descriptions on hundreds of packages, along with information of how to write
your own extensions to LATEX 2 .
Modern TEX distributions come with a large number of packages prein-
stalled. If you are working on a Unix system, use the command texdoc for
accessing package documentation.
Table 1.1: Document Classes.
article for articles in scientific journals, presentations, short reports, pro-

gram documentation, invitations, . . .
proc a class for proceedings based on the article class.
minimal is as small as it can get. It only sets a page size and a base font. It
is mainly used for debugging purposes.
report for longer reports containing several chapters, small books, PhD
theses, . . .
book for real books
slides for slides. The class uses big sans serif letters. You might want to
consider using the Beamer class instead.
1.6 The Layout of the Document 11
Table 1.2: Document Class Options.
10pt, 11pt, 12pt Sets the size of the main font in the document. If no
option is specified, 10pt is assumed.
a4paper, letterpaper, . . . Defines the paper size. The default size is

letterpaper. Besides that, a5paper, b5paper, executivepaper,
and legalpaper can be specified.
fleqn Typesets displayed formulae left-aligned instead of centred.
leqno Places the numbering of formulae on the left hand side instead of
the right.
titlepage, notitlepage Specifies whether a new page should be started

after the document title or not. The article class does not start a
new page by default, while report and book do.
onecolumn, twocolumn Instructs LATEX to typeset the document in one

column or two columns.
twoside, oneside Specifies whether double or single sided output

should be generated. The classes article and report are single sided
and the book class is double sided by default. Note that this option
concerns the style of the document only. The option twoside does not
tell the printer you use that it should actually make a two-sided
printout.
landscape Changes the layout of the document to print in landscape

mode.
openright, openany Makes chapters begin either only on right hand

pages or on the next page available. This does not work with the
article class, as it does not know about chapters. The report class
by default starts chapters on the next page available and the book
class starts them on right hand pages.
Table 1.3: Some of the Packages Distributed with LATEX.
doc Allows the documentation of LATEX programs.

Described in doc.dtxa and in The LATEX Companion [3].
exscale Provides scaled versions of the math extension font.

Described in ltexscale.dtx.
fontenc Specifies which font encoding LATEX should use.

Described in ltoutenc.dtx.
ifthen Provides commands of the form

if. . . then do. . . otherwise do. . . .
Described in ifthen.dtx and The LATEX Companion [3].
latexsym To access the LATEX symbol font, you should use the latexsym
package. Described in latexsym.dtx and in The LATEX Companion [3].
makeidx Provides commands for producing indexes. Described in section 4.3

and in The LATEX Companion [3].
syntonly Processes a document without typesetting it.
inputenc Allows the specification of an input encoding such as ASCII, ISO

Latin-1, ISO Latin-2, 437/850 IBM code pages, Apple Macintosh, Next,
ANSI-Windows or user-defined one. Described in inputenc.dtx.
a
This file should be installed on your system, and you should be able to get a dvi file
by typing latex doc.dtx in any directory where you have write permission. The same is
true for all the other files mentioned in this table.
1.7 Files You Might Encounter 13
1.6.3 Page Styles

LATEX supports three predefined header/footer combinationsso-called page
styles. The style parameter of the
\pagestyle{style}
command defines which one to use. Table 1.4 lists the predefined page styles.
Table 1.4: The Predefined Page Styles of LATEX.
plain prints the page numbers on the bottom of the page, in the middle of
the footer. This is the default page style.
headings prints the current chapter heading and the page number in the
header on each page, while the footer remains empty. (This is the style
used in this document)
empty sets both the header and the footer to be empty.
It is possible to change the page style of the current page with the
command
\thispagestyle{style}
A description how to create your own headers and footers can be found
in The LATEX Companion [3] and in section 4.4 on page 87.
1.7 Files You Might Encounter

When you work with LATEX you will soon find yourself in a maze of files
with various extensions and probably no clue. The following list explains the
various file types you might encounter when working with TEX. Please note
that this table does not claim to be a complete list of extensions, but if you
find one missing that you think is important, please drop me a line.
.tex LATEX or TEX input file. Can be compiled with latex.
.sty LATEX Macro package. Load this into your LATEX document using the
\usepackage command.
.dtx Documented TEX. This is the main distribution format for LATEX style
files. If you process a .dtx file you get documented macro code of the
LATEX package contained in the .dtx file.
.ins The installer for the files contained in the matching .dtx file. If you
download a LATEX package from the net, you will normally get a .dtx
and a .ins file. Run LATEX on the .ins file to unpack the .dtx file.
.cls Class files define what your document looks like. They are selected
with the \documentclass command.
.fd Font description file telling LATEX about new fonts.
The following files are generated when you run LATEX on your input file:
.dvi Device Independent File. This is the main result of a LATEX compile
run. Look at its content with a DVI previewer program or send it to a
printer with dvips or a similar application.
.log Gives a detailed account of what happened during the last compiler
run.
.toc Stores all your section headers. It gets read in for the next compiler
run and is used to produce the table of contents.
.lof This is like .toc but for the list of figures.
.lot And again the same for the list of tables.
.aux Another file that transports information from one compiler run to the
next. Among other things, the .aux file is used to store information
associated with cross-references.
.idx If your document contains an index. LATEX stores all the words that
go into the index in this file. Process this file with makeindex. Refer
to section 4.3 on page 86 for more information on indexing.
.ind The processed .idx file, ready for inclusion into your document on the
next compile cycle.
.ilg Logfile telling what makeindex did.
1.8 Big Projects

When working on big documents, you might want to split the input file into
several parts. LATEX has two commands that help you to do that.
\include{filename}
Use this command in the document body to insert the contents of another file
named filename.tex. Note that LATEX will start a new page before processing
the material input from filename.tex.
1.8 Big Projects 15
The second command can be used in the preamble. It allows you to

instruct LATEX to only input some of the \included files.
\includeonly{filename,filename,. . . }
After this command is executed in the preamble of the document, only

\include commands for the filenames that are listed in the argument of the
\includeonly command will be executed.
The \include command starts typesetting the included text on a new
page. This is helpful when you use \includeonly, because the page breaks
will not move, even when some include files are omitted. Sometimes this
might not be desirable. In this case, use the
\input{filename}
command. It simply includes the file specified. No flashy suits, no strings

attached.
To make LATEX quickly check your document use the syntonly package.
This makes LATEX skim through your document only checking for proper
syntax and usage of the commands, but doesnt produce any (DVI) output.
As LATEX runs faster in this mode you may save yourself valuable time. Usage
is very simple:
\usepackage{syntonly}
\syntaxonly
When you want to produce pages, just comment out the second line (by
adding a percent sign).
Chapter 2
Typesetting Text
After reading the previous chapter, you should know about the basic stuff of
which a LATEX 2 document is made. In this chapter I will fill in the remaining
structure you will need to know in order to produce real world material.
2.1 The Structure of Text and Language

By Hanspeter Schmid <[email protected]>
The main point of writing a text, is to convey ideas, information, or knowledge

to the reader. The reader will understand the text better if these ideas
are well-structured, and will see and feel this structure much better if the
typographical form reflects the logical and semantical structure of the content.
LATEX is different from other typesetting systems in that you just have
to tell it the logical and semantical structure of a text. It then derives the
typographical form of the text according to the rules given in the document
class file and in various style files.
The most important text unit in LATEX (and in typography) is the
paragraph. We call it text unit because a paragraph is the typographical
form that should reflect one coherent thought, or one idea. You will learn in
the following sections how to force line breaks with e.g. \\, and paragraph
breaks with e.g. leaving an empty line in the source code. Therefore, if a new
thought begins, a new paragraph should begin, and if not, only line breaks
should be used. If in doubt about paragraph breaks, think about your text
as a conveyor of ideas and thoughts. If you have a paragraph break, but
the old thought continues, it should be removed. If some totally new line of
thought occurs in the same paragraph, then it should be broken.
Most people completely underestimate the importance of well-placed
paragraph breaks. Many people do not even know what the meaning of
a paragraph break is, or, especially in LATEX, introduce paragraph breaks
without knowing it. The latter mistake is especially easy to make if equations
are used in the text. Look at the following examples, and figure out why
18 Typesetting Text
sometimes empty lines (paragraph breaks) are used before and after the
equation, and sometimes not. (If you dont yet understand all commands
well enough to understand these examples, please read this and the following
chapter, and then read this section again.)
% Example 1
\ldots when Einstein introduced his formula
\begin{equation}
e = m \cdot c^2 \; ,
\end{equation}
which is at the same time the most widely known
and the least well understood physical formula.
% Example 2
\ldots from which follows Kirchhoffs current law:
\begin{equation}
\sum_{k=1}^{n} I_k = 0 \; .
\end{equation}
Kirchhoffs voltage law can be derived \ldots
% Example 3
\ldots which has several advantages.
\begin{equation}
I_D = I_F - I_R
\end{equation}
is the core of a very different transistor model. \ldots
The next smaller text unit is a sentence. In English texts, there is a

larger space after a period that ends a sentence than after one that ends an
abbreviation. LATEX tries to figure out which one you wanted to have. If
LATEX gets it wrong, you must tell it what you want. This is explained later
in this chapter.
The structuring of text even extends to parts of sentences. Most languages
have very complicated punctuation rules, but in many languages (including
German and English), you will get almost every comma right if you remember
what it represents: a short stop in the flow of language. If you are not sure
about where to put a comma, read the sentence aloud and take a short
breath at every comma. If this feels awkward at some place, delete that
comma; if you feel the urge to breathe (or make a short stop) at some other
place, insert a comma.
2.2 Line Breaking and Page Breaking 19
Finally, the paragraphs of a text should also be structured logically at a

higher level, by putting them into chapters, sections, subsections, and so on.
However, the typographical effect of writing e.g. \section{The Structure
of Text and Language} is so obvious that it is almost self-evident how
these high-level structures should be used.
2.2 Line Breaking and Page Breaking

2.2.1 Justified Paragraphs
Books are often typeset with each line having the same length. LATEX
inserts the necessary line breaks and spaces between words by optimizing
the contents of a whole paragraph. If necessary, it also hyphenates words
that would not fit comfortably on a line. How the paragraphs are typeset
depends on the document class. Normally the first line of a paragraph is
indented, and there is no additional space between two paragraphs. Refer to
section 6.3.2 for more information.
In special cases it might be necessary to order LATEX to break a line:
\\ or \newline
starts a new line without starting a new paragraph.
\\*
additionally prohibits a page break after the forced line break.
\newpage
starts a new page.
\linebreak[n], \nolinebreak[n], \pagebreak[n], \nopagebreak[n]
suggest places where a break may (or may not) happen. They enable the
author to influence their actions with the optional argument n, which can
be set to a number between zero and four. By setting n to a value below
4, you leave LATEX the option of ignoring your command if the result would
look very bad. Do not confuse these break commands with the new
commands. Even when you give a break command, LATEX still tries to even
out the right border of the line and the total length of the page, as described
in the next section; this can lead to unpleasant gaps in your text. If you
really want to start a new line or a new page, then use the corresponding
command. Guess their names!
20 Typesetting Text
LATEX always tries to produce the best line breaks possible. If it cannot
find a way to break the lines in a manner that meets its high standards, it
lets one line stick out on the right of the paragraph. LATEX then complains
(overfull hbox) while processing the input file. This happens most often
when LATEX cannot find a suitable place to hyphenate a word.1 Instruct
LATEX to lower its standards a little by giving the \sloppy command. It
prevents such over-long lines by increasing the inter-word spacingeven if
the final output is not optimal. In this case a warning (underfull hbox) is
given to the user. In most such cases the result doesnt look very good. The
command \fussy brings LATEX back to its default behaviour.
2.2.2 Hyphenation
LATEX hyphenates words whenever necessary. If the hyphenation algorithm
does not find the correct hyphenation points, remedy the situation by using
the following commands to tell TEX about the exception.
The command
\hyphenation{word list}
causes the words listed in the argument to be hyphenated only at the points
marked by -. The argument of the command should only contain words
built from normal letters, or rather signs that are considered to be normal
letters by LATEX. The hyphenation hints are stored for the language that
is active when the hyphenation command occurs. This means that if you
place a hyphenation command into the preamble of your document it will
influence the English language hyphenation. If you place the command
after the \begin{document} and you are using some package for national
language support like babel, then the hyphenation hints will be active in the
language activated through babel.
The example below will allow hyphenation to be hyphenated as well as
Hyphenation, and it prevents FORTRAN, Fortran and fortran from
being hyphenated at all. No special characters or symbols are allowed in the
argument.
Example:
\hyphenation{FORTRAN Hy-phen-a-tion}
The command \- inserts a discretionary hyphen into a word. This

also becomes the only point hyphenation is allowed in this word. This
command is especially useful for words containing special characters (e.g.
1
Although LATEX gives you a warning when that happens (Overfull \hbox) and displays
the offending line, such lines are not always easy to find. If you use the option draft in
the \documentclass command, these lines will be marked with a thick black line on the
right margin.
2.3 Ready-Made Strings 21
accented characters), because LATEX does not automatically hyphenate words

containing special characters.
I think this is: su\-per\-cal\-%

I think this is: supercalifragilisticexpiali-
i\-frag\-i\-lis\-tic\-ex\-pi\-%
docious
al\-i\-do\-cious
Several words can be kept together on one line with the command
\mbox{text}
It causes its argument to be kept together under all circumstances.
My phone number will change soon.

It will be \mbox{0116 291 2319}. My phone number will change soon. It will
be 0116 291 2319.
The parameter The parameter filename should contain the
\mbox{\emph{filename}} should name of the file.
contain the name of the file.
\fbox is similar to \mbox, but in addition there will be a visible box

drawn around the content.
2.3 Ready-Made Strings

In some of the examples on the previous pages, you have seen some very
simple LATEX commands for typesetting special text strings:
Command Example Description

\today June 20, 2016 Current date
\TeX TEX Your favorite typesetter
\LaTeX LATEX The Name of the Game
\LaTeXe LATEX 2 The current incarnation
2.4 Special Characters and Symbols

2.4.1 Quotation Marks
You should not use the " for quotation marks as you would on a typewriter.
In publishing there are special opening and closing quotation marks. In LATEX,
use two ` (grave accent) for opening quotation marks and two ' (vertical
quote) for closing quotation marks. For single quotes you use just one of
each.
Please press the x key. Please press the x key.

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Yes I know the rendering is not ideal, its really a back-tick or grave
accent (`) for opening quotes and vertical quote (') for closing, despite what
the font chosen might suggest.
2.4.2 Dashes and Hyphens

LATEX knows four kinds of dashes. Access three of them with different number
of consecutive dashes. The fourth sign is actually not a dash at allit is the
mathematical minus sign:
daughter-in-law, X-rated\\ daughter-in-law, X-rated

pages 13--67\\ pages 1367
yes---or no? \\ yesor no?
$0$, $1$ and $-1$ 0, 1 and 1
The names for these dashes are: - hyphen, en-dash, em-dash

and minus sign.
2.4.3 Tilde ()
A character often seen in web addresses is the tilde. To generate this in
LATEX use \~{} but the result () is not really what you want. Try this
instead:
http://www.rich.edu/\~{}bush \\ http://www.rich.edu/bush
http://www.clever.edu/$\sim$demo http://www.clever.edu/demo
2.4.4 Slash (/)

In order to typeset a slash between two words, one can simply type e.g.
read/write, but this makes LATEX treat the two words as one. Hyphenation
is disabled for these two words, so there may be overfull errors. To over-
come this, use \slash. For example type read\slash write which allows
hyphenation. But normal / character may be still used for ratios or units,
e.g. 5 MB/s.
2.4.5 Degree Symbol ()

Printing the degree symbol in pure LATEX.
Its $-30\,^{\circ}\mathrm{C}$.
I will soon start to Its 30 C. I will soon start to super-
super-conduct. conduct.
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The textcomp package makes the degree symbol also available as \textdegree
or in combination with the C by using the \textcelsius.
30 \textcelsius{} is
86 \textdegree{}F. 30 is 86 F.
2.4.6 The Euro Currency Symbol (e)

When writing about money these days, you need the Euro symbol. Many
current fonts contain a Euro symbol. After loading the textcomp package in
the preamble of your document
\usepackage{textcomp}
use the command
\texteuro
to access it.
If your font does not provide its own Euro symbol or if you do not like
the fonts Euro symbol, you have two more choices:
First the eurosym package. It provides the official Euro symbol:
\usepackage[official]{eurosym}
If you prefer a Euro symbol that matches your font, use the option gen
in place of the official option.
Table 2.1: A bag full of Euro symbols
LM+textcomp \texteuro
eurosym \euro e e e
[gen]eurosym \euro A
C A
C A
C
2.4.7 Ellipsis (. . . )
On a typewriter, a comma or a period takes the same amount of space as
any other letter. In book printing, these characters occupy only a little space
and are set very close to the preceding letter. Therefore, entering ellipsis
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by just typing three dots would produce the wrong result. Instead, there is
a special command for these dots. It is called
\ldots (low dots)
Not like this ... but like this:\\ Not like this ... but like this:
New York, Tokyo, Budapest, \ldots New York, Tokyo, Budapest, . . .
2.4.8 Ligatures
Some letter combinations are typeset not just by setting the different letters
one after the other, but by actually using special symbols.
ff fi fl ffi. . . instead of ff fi fl ffi . . .

These so-called ligatures can be prohibited by inserting an \mbox{} between
the two letters in question. This might be necessary with words built from
two words.
\Large Not shelfful\\ Not shelfful

but shelf\mbox{}ful but shelfful
2.4.9 Accents and Special Characters

LATEX supports the use of accents and special characters from many languages.
Table 2.2 shows all sorts of accents being applied to the letter o. Naturally
other letters work too.
To place an accent on top of an i or a j, its dots have to be removed.
This is accomplished by typing \i and \j.
H\^otel, na\"\i ve, \el\eve,\\

Htel, nave, lve,
sm\o rrebr\o d, !Se\~norita!,\\
smrrebrd, Seorita!,
Sch\"onbrunner Schlo\ss{}
Schnbrunner Schlo Strae
Stra\ss e
2.5 International Language Support

When you write documents in languages other than English, there are three
areas where LATEX has to be configured appropriately:
2.5 International Language Support 25
1. All automatically generated text strings2 have to be adapted to the

new language. For many languages, these changes can be accomplished
by using the babel package by Johannes Braams.
2. LATEX needs to know the hyphenation rules for the new language.
Getting hyphenation rules into LATEX is a bit more tricky. It means
rebuilding the format file with different hyphenation patterns enabled.
Your Local Guide [5] should give more information on this.
3. Language specific typographic rules. In French for example, there is a

mandatory space before each colon character (:).
If your system is already configured appropriately, activate the babel

package by adding the command
\usepackage[language]{babel}
after the \documentclass command. A list of the languages built into your
LATEX system will be displayed every time the compiler is started. Babel will
automatically activate the appropriate hyphenation rules for the language
you choose. If your LATEX format does not support hyphenation in the
language of your choice, babel will still work but will disable hyphenation,
which has quite a negative effect on the appearance of the typeset document.
Babel also specifies new commands for some languages, which simplify
the input of special characters. The German language, for example, contains
a lot of umlauts (). With babel loaded, enter an by typing "o instead
of \"o.
2
Table of Contents, List of Figures, . . .
Table 2.2: Accents and Special Characters.
\o \o \^o \~o
o \=o o \.o \"o \c c
o \u o o \v o \H o o \c o
o. \d o o \b o oo
\t oo

\oe \OE \ae \AE
\aa \AA
\o \O \l \L
\i \j ! ?
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If you call babel with multiple languages
\usepackage[languageA,languageB]{babel}
then the last language in the option list will be active (i.e. languageB). Use
the command
\selectlanguage{languageA}
to change the active language.

Most modern computer systems allow you to input letters of national
alphabets directly from the keyboard. In order to handle a variety of input
encodings used for different groups of languages and/or on different computer
platforms LATEX employs the inputenc package:
\usepackage[encoding]{inputenc}
When using this package, you should consider that other people might
not be able to display your input files on their computer, because they use a
different encoding. For example, the German umlaut on OS/2 is encoded
as 132, on Unix systems using ISO-LATIN 1 it is encoded as 228, while
in Cyrillic encoding cp1251 for Windows this letter does not exist at all;
therefore you should use this feature with care. The following encodings may
come in handy, depending on the type of system you are working on3
Operating encodings
system western Latin Cyrillic
Mac applemac macukr
Unix latin1 koi8-ru
Windows ansinew cp1251
DOS, OS/2 cp850 cp866nav
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
will enable you to create LATEX input files in utf8, a multi-byte encoding in
which each character can be encoded in as little as one byte and as many as
four bytes.
Since the turn of the Century most Operating Systems are based on
Unicode (Windows XP, MacOS X). Therefore it is recommended to use utf8
for any new project. The utf8 encoding used by inputenc only defines the
3
To learn more about supported input encodings for Latin-based and Cyrillic-based
languages, read the documentation for inputenc.dtx and cyinpenc.dtx respectively.
Section 4.6 tells how to produce package documentation.
characters that are actually provided by the fonts used. If you need more
(non-latin) characters have a look at XELATEX in section 4.8 a Unicode based
TEX-engine.
Font encoding is a different matter. It defines at which position inside a
TEX-font each letter is stored. Multiple input encodings could be mapped
into one font encoding, which reduces the number of required font sets. Font
encodings are handled through fontenc package:
\usepackage[encoding]{fontenc}
where encoding is font encoding. It is possible to load several encodings

simultaneously.
The default LATEX font encoding is OT1, the encoding of the original
Computer Modern TEX font. It contains only the 128 characters of the 7-bit
ASCII character set. When accented characters are required, TEX creates
them by combining a normal character with an accent. While the resulting
output looks perfect, this approach stops the automatic hyphenation from
working inside words containing accented characters. Besides, some Latin
letters could not be created by combining a normal character with an accent,
to say nothing about letters of non-Latin alphabets, such as Greek or Cyrillic.
To overcome these shortcomings, several 8-bit CM-like font sets were
created. Extended Cork (EC) fonts in T1 encoding contains letters and
punctuation characters for most of the European languages using Latin
script. The LH font set contains letters necessary to typeset documents
in languages using Cyrillic script. Because of the large number of Cyrillic
glyphs, they are arranged into four font encodingsT2A, T2B, T2C, and X2.4
The CB bundle contains fonts in LGR encoding for the composition of Greek
text.
Improve/enable hyphenation in non-English documents by using these
fonts. Another advantage of using new CM-like fonts is that they provide
fonts of CM families in all weights, shapes, and optically scaled font sizes.
2.5.1 Support for Portuguese

By Demerson Andre Polli <[email protected]>
To enable hyphenation and change all automatic text to Portuguese, use the
command:
\usepackage[portuguese]{babel}
Or if you are in Brazil, substitute brazilian as the language.

4
Find a list of languages supported by each of these encodings in [11].
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Table 2.3: Preamble for Portuguese documents.
\usepackage[portuguese]{babel}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
As there are a lot of accents in Portuguese you might want to use
to be able to input them correctly as well as
to get the hyphenation right.

See table 2.3 for the preamble you need to write in the Portuguese
language. Note that the example is for the latin1 input encoding. Modern
systems might be using utf8 instead.
2.5.2 Support for French

By Daniel Flipo <[email protected]>
Some hints for those creating French documents with LATEX: load French
language support with the following command:
\usepackage[francais]{babel}
This enables French hyphenation, if you have configured your LATEX

system accordingly. It also changes all automatic text into French: \chapter
prints Chapitre, \today prints the current date in French and so on. A set
of new commands also becomes available, which allows you to write French
input files more easily. Check out table 2.4 for inspiration.
You will also notice that the layout of lists changes when switching to the
French language. For more information on what the francais option of babel
does and how to customize its behaviour, run LATEX on file frenchb.dtx
and read the produced file frenchb.dvi.
Recent versions of frenchb rely on numprint to implement the \nombre
command.
Table 2.4: Special commands for French.
\og guillemets \fg{} guillemets

M\up{me}, D\up{r} Mme, Dr
1\ier{}, 1\iere{}, 1\ieres{} 1er, 1re, 1res
2\ieme{} 4\iemes{} 2e 4es
\No 1, \no 2 No 1, no 2
20~\degres C, 45\degres 20 C, 45
\bsc{M. Durand} M. Durand
\nombre{1234,56789} 1 234,567 89
2.5.3 Support for German

Some hints for those creating German documents with LATEX: load German
language support with the following command:
\usepackage[german]{babel}
This enables German hyphenation, if you have configured your LATEX

system accordingly. It also changes all automatic text into German. Eg.
Chapter becomes Kapitel. A set of new commands also becomes available,
which allows you to write German input files more quickly even when you
dont use the inputenc package. Check out table 2.5 for inspiration. With
inputenc, all this becomes moot, but your text also is locked in a particular
encoding world.
Table 2.5: German Special Characters.
"a "s
" "
"< or \flqq "> or \frqq
\flq \frq
\dq "
In German books you often find French quotation marks (guillemets).

German typesetters, however, use them differently. A quote in a German
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book would look like this. In the German speaking part of Switzerland,
typesetters use guillemets the same way the French do.
A major problem arises from the use of commands like \flq: If you use
the OT1 font (which is the default font) the guillemets will look like the math
symbol , which turns a typesetters stomach. T1 encoded fonts, on the
other hand, do contain the required symbols. So if you are using this type of
quote, make sure you use the T1 encoding. (\usepackage[T1]{fontenc})
2.5.4 Support for Korean5

To process Hangul6 characters or prepare a document written in Korean
using LATEX, put the following code in the preamble of the document.
\usepackage{kotex}
A document containing the declaration above will have to be processed

by pdfLATEX, XELATEX, or LuaLATEX. Make sure that the input file written in
Hangul is encoded in Unicode UTF-8. The package called ko.TEX7 is under
continuous development by the Korean TEX Users Group8 and the Korean
TEX Society.9 Many people use this package to create Korean documents for
their everyday needs. ko.TEX has been available on CTAN since 2014. It
is included TEX Live, MiKTEX and other modern TEX distributions. So in
all likelihood you can start working right away without installing any extra
packages.
ko.TEX does not use the babel package. Many functions related to
Korean can be activated using the options and configuration commands
provided by the kotex package. If you want to compose a real world Korean
document, you are advised to consult the package documentation (These
documents are written in Korean).
With ko.TEX, you also get oblivoir, a memoir-based document class,
tailored for Korean document preparation. So your Korean document would
start like this:
\documentclass{oblivoir}
To generate an index for a Korean document, execute komkindex instead

of makeindex. It is a version of the makeindex utility modified for Korean
5
Written by Karnes Kim <[email protected]> and Kihwang Lee <[email protected]> on
behalf of the Korean TEX Users Group and the Korean TEX Society.
6
Hangul is the name of the Korean writing system. Refer to http://en.wikipedia.
org/wiki/Hangul for more information.
7
Reads Korean TEX. ko.TEX is the name of a collection of packages including cjk-ko,
kotex-utf, xetexko, and luatexko.
8
http://ktug.org
9
http://ktug.kr
Table 2.6: Preamble for Greek documents.
\usepackage[english,greek]{babel}
\usepackage[iso-8859-7]{inputenc}
processing. For lexicographical sorting of the Korean index items, you can
use index style kotex.ist provided by ko.TEX as follows:
komkindex -s kotex foo.idx
You can also use xindy for index generation as the Korean module for
xindy is included in TEX Live.
There is another Korean/Hangul typesetting package called CJK. As
the name of the package suggests, it has facilities for typesetting Chinese,
Japanese, and Korean characters. It supports multiple encodings of the CJK
characters. The following is a simple example of typesetting UTF-8 encoded
Hangul using CJK package. It is useful when you submit a manuscript
to some academic journals that allow typesetting author names in native
languages.
\usepackage{CJK}
\begin{CJK}{UTF8}{}
\CJKfamily{nanummj}
...
\end{CJK}
2.5.5 Writing in Greek

By Nikolaos Pothitos <[email protected]>
See table 2.6 for the preamble you need to write in the Greek language. This
preamble enables hyphenation and changes all automatic text to Greek.10
A set of new commands also becomes available, which allows you to
write Greek input files more easily. In order to temporarily switch to
English and vice versa, one can use the commands \textlatin{english text}
and \textgreek{greek text} that both take one argument which is then
typeset using the requested font encoding. Otherwise use the command
\selectlanguage{...} described in a previous section. Check out table 2.7
for some Greek punctuation characters. Use \euro for the Euro symbol.
10
If you select the utf8x option for the package inputenc, LATEX will understand Greek
and polytonic Greek Unicode characters.
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Table 2.7: Greek Special Characters.
; ? ;
(( ))

2.5.6 Support for Cyrillic

By Maksym Polyakov <[email protected]>
Version 3.7h of babel includes support for the T2* encodings and for typeset-
ting Bulgarian, Russian and Ukrainian texts using Cyrillic letters.
Support for Cyrillic is based on standard LATEX mechanisms plus the
fontenc and inputenc packages. But, if you are going to use Cyrillics in math
mode, you need to load mathtext package before fontenc:11
\usepackage{mathtext}
\usepackage[T1,T2A]{fontenc}
\usepackage[koi8-ru]{inputenc}
\usepackage[english,bulgarian,russian,ukranian]{babel}
Generally, babel will automatically choose the default font encoding, for
the above three languages this is T2A. However, documents are not restricted
to a single font encoding. For multi-lingual documents using Cyrillic and
Latin-based languages it makes sense to include Latin font encoding explicitly.
babel will take care of switching to the appropriate font encoding when a
different language is selected within the document.
In addition to enabling hyphenations, translating automatically gener-
ated text strings, and activating some language specific typographic rules
(like \frenchspacing), babel provides some commands allowing typesetting
according to the standards of Bulgarian, Russian, or Ukrainian languages.
For all three languages, language specific punctuation is provided: The
Cyrillic dash for the text (it is little narrower than Latin dash and surrounded
by tiny spaces), a dash for direct speech, quotes, and commands to facilitate
hyphenation, see Table 2.8.
The Russian and Ukrainian options of babel define the commands \Asbuk
and \asbuk, which act like \Alph and \alph12 , but produce capital and
small letters of Russian or Ukrainian alphabets (whichever is the active
language of the document). The Bulgarian option of babel provides the
commands \enumBul and \enumLat (\enumEng), which make \Alph and
11
If you use AMS-LATEX packages, load them before fontenc and babel as well.
12
the commands for turning counters into a, b, c, . . .
Table 2.8: The extra definitions made by Bulgarian, Russian, and Ukrainian
options of babel
"| disable ligature at this position.
"- an explicit hyphen sign, allowing hyphenation in the rest of the word.
"--- Cyrillic emdash in plain text.
"--~ Cyrillic emdash in compound names (surnames).
"--* Cyrillic emdash for denoting direct speech.
"" like "-, but producing no hyphen sign (for compound words with
hyphen, e.g. x-""y or some other signs as disable/enable).
"~ for a compound word mark without a breakpoint.
"= for a compound word mark with a breakpoint, allowing hyphenation
in the composing words.
", thinspace for initials with a breakpoint in following surname.
" for German left double quotes (looks like ,,).
" for German right double quotes (looks like ).
"< for French left double quotes (looks like <<).
"> for French right double quotes (looks like >>).
\alph produce letters of either Bulgarian or Latin (English) alphabets. The

default behaviour of \Alph and \alph for the Bulgarian language option is
to produce letters from the Bulgarian alphabet.
2.5.7 Support for Mongolian
To use LATEX for typesetting Mongolian you have a choice between two
packages: Multilingual Babel and MonTEX by Oliver Corff.
MonTEX includes support for both Cyrillic and traditional Mongolian
Script. In order to access the commands of MonTEX, add:
\usepackage[language,encoding]{mls}
to the preamble. Choose the language option xalx to generate captions

and dates in Modern Mongolian. To write a complete document in the
traditional Mongolian script you have to choose bicig for the language option.
The document language option bicig enables the Simplified Transliteration
input method.
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Enable and disable Latin Transliteration Mode with
\SetDocumentEncodingLMC
and
\SetDocumentEncodingNeutral
More information about MonTEX is available from CTAN://language/

mongolian/montex/doc.
Mongolian Cyrillic script is supported by babel. Activate Mongolian
language support with the following commands:
\usepackage[T2A]{fontenc}
\usepackage[mn]{inputenc}
\usepackage[mongolian]{babel}
where mn is the cp1251 input encoding. For a more modern approach invoke
utf8 instead.
2.5.8 The Unicode option

By Axel Kielhorn <[email protected]>
Unicode is the way to go if you want to include several languages in one

document, especially when these languages are not using the latin script.
There are two TEX-engines that are capable of processing Unicode input:
XETEX was developed for MacOS X but is now available for all architectures.
It was first included into TexLive 2007.
LuaTEX is the successor of pdfTEX. It was first included into TexLive 2008.
The following describes XELATEX as distributed with TexLive 2010.
Quickstart
To convert an existing LATEX file to XELATEX the following needs to be done:
1. Save the file as UTF-8
2. Remove
\usepackage{inputenc}
\usepackage{fontenc}
from the preamble.

3. Change
\usepackage[languageA]{babel}
to
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setdefaultlanguage[babelshorthands]{languageA}
4. Add
\usepackage[Ligatures=TeX]{fontspec}
to the preamble.
The package polyglossia[19] is a replacement for babel. It takes care of

the hyphenation patterns and automatically generated text strings. The
option babelshorthands enables babel compatible shorthands for german
and catalan.
The package fontspec[21] handles font loading for XELATEX and LuaTEX.
The default font is Latin Modern Roman. It is a little known fact that some
TEX command are ligatures defined in the Computer Modern fonts. If you
want to use them with a non-TEX font, you have to fake them. The option
Ligatures=TeX defines the following ligatures:
--
---

!
?
,,
<<
>>
Its all to me
So far there has been no advantage to using a Unicode TEX engine. This
changes when we leave the Latin script and move to a more interesting
language like Greek or Russian. With a Unicode based system, you can
simply13 enter the characters in your editor and TEX will understand them.
13
For small values of simple.
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Writing in different languages is easy, just specify the languages in the

preamble:
\setdefaultlanguage{english}
\setotherlanguage[babelshorthands]{german}
To write a paragraph in German, you can use the German environment:
English text.
\begin{german}
Deutscher Text.
\end{german}
More English text.
If you just need a word in a foreign language you can use the \textlanguage
command:
Englisch text. \textgerman{Gesundheit} is actually a German word.
This may look unnecessary since the only advantage is a correct hyphen-
ation, but when the second language is a little bit more exotic it will be
worth the effort.
Sometimes the font used in the main document does not contain glyphs
that are required in the second language14 . The solution is to define a font
that will be used for that language. Whenever a new language is activated,
polyglossia will first check whether a font has been defined for that language.
\newfontfamily\russianfont[Script=Cyrillic,(...)]{(font)}
Now you can write
\textrussian{Pravda} is a russian newspaper.
Since this document is written in Latin1-encoding, I cannot show the

actual Cyrillic letters.
The package xgreek[22] offers support for writing either ancient or modern
(monotonic or polytonic) greek.
Right to Left (RTL) languages.

Some languages are written left to right, others are written right to left(RTL).
polyglossia needs the bidi[23] package15 in order to support RTL languages.
The bidi package should be the last package you load, even after hyperref
14
Latin Modern does not contain Cyrillic letters
15
bidi does not support LuaTEX.
which is usually the last package. (Since polyglossia loads bidi this means
that polyglossia should be the last package loaded.)
The package xepersian[24] offers support for the Persian language. It
supplies Persian LATEX-commands that allows you to enter commands like
\section in Persian, which makes this really attractive to native speakers.
xepersian is the only package that supports kashida with XELATEX. A package
for Syriac which uses a similar algorithm is under development.
The IranNastaliq font provided by the SCICT16 is available at their
website http://www.scict.ir/Portal/Home/Default.aspx.
The arabxetex[20] package supports several languages with an Arabic
script:
arab (Arabic)
persian
urdu
sindhi
pashto
ottoman (turk)
kurdish
kashmiri
malay (jawi)
uighur
It offers a font mapping that enables XELATEX to process input using the
ArabTEX ASCII transcription.
Fonts that support several Arabic laguages are offered by the IRMUG17
at http://wiki.irmug.org/index.php/X_Series_2.
There is no package available for Hebrew because none is needed. The
Hebrew support in polyglossia should be sufficient. But you do need a
suitable font with real Unicode Hebrew. SBL Hebrew is free for non-
commercial use and available at http://www.sbl-site.org/educational/
biblicalfonts.aspx. Another font available under the Open Font License
is Ezra SIL, available at http://www.sil.org/computing/catalog/show_
software.asp?id=76.
16
Supreme Council of Information and Communication Technology
17
Iranian Mac User Group
38 Typesetting Text
Remember to select the correct script:
\newfontfamily\hebrewfont[Script=Hebrew]{SBL Hebrew}
\newfontfamily\hebrewfont[Script=Hebrew]{Ezra SIL}
Chinese, Japanese and Korean (CJK)

The package xeCJK[25] takes care of font selection and punctuation for these
languages.
2.6 The Space Between Words

To get a straight right margin in the output, LATEX inserts varying amounts
of space between the words. It inserts slightly more space at the end of a
sentence, as this makes the text more readable. LATEX assumes that sentences
end with periods, question marks or exclamation marks. If a period follows
an uppercase letter, this is not taken as a sentence ending, since periods after
uppercase letters normally occur in abbreviations.
Any exception from these assumptions has to be specified by the author.
A backslash in front of a space generates a space that will not be enlarged. A
tilde ~ character generates a space that cannot be enlarged and additionally
prohibits a line break. The command \@ in front of a period specifies that
this period terminates a sentence even when it follows an uppercase letter.
Mr.~Smith was happy to see her\\ Mr. Smith was happy to see her
cf.~Fig.~5\\ cf. Fig. 5
I like BASIC\@. What about you? I like BASIC. What about you?
The additional space after periods can be disabled with the command
\frenchspacing
which tells LATEX not to insert more space after a period than after an
ordinary character. This is very common in non-English languages, except
bibliographies. If you use \frenchspacing, the command \@ is not necessary.
2.7 Titles, Chapters, and Sections

To help the reader find his or her way through your work, you should divide
it into chapters, sections, and subsections. LATEX supports this with special
2.7 Titles, Chapters, and Sections 39
commands that take the section title as their argument. It is up to you to

use them in the correct order.
The following sectioning commands are available for the article class:
\section{...}
\subsection{...}
\subsubsection{...}
\paragraph{...}
\subparagraph{...}
If you want to split your document into parts without influencing the
section or chapter numbering use
\part{...}
When you work with the report or book class, an additional top-level
sectioning command becomes available
\chapter{...}
As the article class does not know about chapters, it is quite easy
to add articles as chapters to a book. The spacing between sections, the
numbering and the font size of the titles will be set automatically by LATEX.
Two of the sectioning commands are a bit special:
The \part command does not influence the numbering sequence of

chapters.
The \appendix command does not take an argument. It just changes

the chapter numbering to letters.18
LATEX creates a table of contents by taking the section headings and page
numbers from the last compile cycle of the document. The command
\tableofcontents
expands to a table of contents at the place it is issued. A new document

has to be compiled (LATEXed) twice to get a correct table of contents.
Sometimes it might be necessary to compile the document a third time.
LATEX will tell you when this is necessary.
All sectioning commands listed above also exist as starred versions. A
starred version of a command is built by adding a star * after the command
name. This generates section headings that do not show up in the table
18
For the article style it changes the section numbering.
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of contents and are not numbered. The command \section{Help}, for

example, would become \section*{Help}.
Normally the section headings show up in the table of contents exactly
as they are entered in the text. Sometimes this is not possible, because the
heading is too long to fit into the table of contents. The entry for the table
of contents can then be specified as an optional argument in front of the
actual heading.
\chapter[Title for the table of contents]{A long

and especially boring title, shown in the text}
The title of the whole document is generated by issuing a
\maketitle
command. The contents of the title have to be defined by the commands
\title{...}, \author{...} and optionally \date{...}
before calling \maketitle. In the argument to \author, you can supply

several names separated by \and commands.
An example of some of the commands mentioned above can be found in
Figure 1.2 on page 8.
Apart from the sectioning commands explained above, LATEX 2 intro-
duced three additional commands for use with the book class. They are
useful for dividing your publication. The commands alter chapter headings
and page numbering to work as you would expect in a book:
\frontmatter should be the very first command after the start of the
document body (\begin{document}). It will switch page numbering
to Roman numerals and sections will be non-enumerated as if you were
using the starred sectioning commands (eg \chapter*{Preface}) but
the sections will still show up in the table of contents.
\mainmatter comes right before the first chapter of the book. It turns on
Arabic page numbering and restarts the page counter.
\appendix marks the start of additional material in your book. After this
command chapters will be numbered with letters.
\backmatter should be inserted before the very last items in your book,
such as the bibliography and the index. In the standard document
classes, this has no visual effect.
2.8 Cross References 41
2.8 Cross References

In books, reports and articles, there are often cross-references to figures,
tables and special segments of text. LATEX provides the following commands
for cross referencing
\label{marker}, \ref{marker} and \pageref{marker}
where marker is an identifier chosen by the user. LATEX replaces \ref by

the number of the section, subsection, figure, table, or theorem after which
the corresponding \label command was issued. \pageref prints the page
number of the page where the \label command occurred.19 As with section
titles and page numbers for the table of contents, the numbers from the
previous compile cycle are used.
A reference to this subsection

\label{sec:this} looks like: A reference to this subsection looks like:
see section~\ref{sec:this} on see section 2.8 on page 41.
page~\pageref{sec:this}.
2.9 Footnotes
With the command
\footnote{footnote text}
a footnote is printed at the foot of the current page. Footnotes should always
be put20 after the word or sentence they refer to. Footnotes referring to a
sentence or part of it should therefore be put after the comma or period.21
Footnotes\footnote{This is Footnotesa are often used by people using

a footnote.} are often used LATEX.
by people using \LaTeX. a
This is a footnote.
19
Note that these commands are not aware of what they refer to. \label just saves the
last automatically generated number.
20
put is one of the most common English words.
21
Note that footnotes distract the reader from the main body of your document. After
all, everybody reads the footnoteswe are a curious species, so why not just integrate
everything you want to say into the body of the document?22
22
A guidepost doesnt necessarily go where its pointing to :-).
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2.10 Emphasized Words

If a text is typed using a typewriter, important words are emphasized by
underlining them.
\underline{text}
In printed books, however, words are emphasized by typesetting them in

an italic font. As an author you shouldnt care either way. The important
bit is, to tell LATEX that a particular bit of text is important and should be
emphasized. Hence the command
\emph{text}
to emphasize text. What the command actually does with its argument
depends on the context:
\emph{If you use

emphasizing inside a piece
If you use emphasizing inside a piece of
of emphasized text, then
emphasized text, then LATEX uses the nor-
\LaTeX{} uses the
mal font for emphasizing.
\emph{normal} font for
emphasizing.}
If you want control over font and font size, section 6.2 on page 123 might
provide some inspiration.
2.11 Environments
\begin{environment} text \end{environment}
Where environment is the name of the environment. Environments can be

nested within each other as long as the correct nesting order is maintained.
\begin{aaa}...\begin{bbb}...\end{bbb}...\end{aaa}
In the following sections all important environments are explained.
2.11.1 Itemize, Enumerate, and Description

The itemize environment is suitable for simple lists, the enumerate environ-
ment for enumerated lists, and the description environment for descriptions.
2.11 Environments 43
\flushleft
\begin{enumerate}
\item You can nest the list
environments to your taste: 1. You can nest the list environments
\begin{itemize} to your taste:
\item But it might start to
But it might start to look
look silly.
silly.
\item[-] With a dash.
\end{itemize} - With a dash.
\item Therefore remember: 2. Therefore remember:
\begin{description}
\item[Stupid] things will not Stupid things will not become
become smart because they are smart because they are in a
in a list. list.
\item[Smart] things, though, Smart things, though, can be
can be presented beautifully presented beautifully in a list.
in a list.
\end{description}
\end{enumerate}
2.11.2 Flushleft, Flushright, and Center

The environments flushleft and flushright generate paragraphs that
are either left- or right-aligned. The center environment generates centred
text. If you do not issue \\ to specify line breaks, LATEX will automatically
determine line breaks.
\begin{flushleft}
This text is\\ left-aligned. This text is
\LaTeX{} is not trying to make left-aligned. LATEX is not trying to make
each line the same length. each line the same length.
\end{flushleft}
\begin{flushright}
This text is right-\\aligned. This text is right-
\LaTeX{} is not trying to make aligned. LATEX is not trying to make each
each line the same length. line the same length.
\end{flushright}
\begin{center}
At the centre
At the centre\\of the earth
of the earth
\end{center}
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2.11.3 Quote, Quotation, and Verse

The quote environment is useful for quotes, important phrases and examples.
A typographical rule of thumb

for the line length is: A typographical rule of thumb for the line
\begin{quote} length is:
On average, no line should
On average, no line should be
be longer than 66 characters.
longer than 66 characters.
\end{quote}
This is why \LaTeX{} pages have
This is why LATEX pages have such large
such large borders by default
borders by default and also why multicol-
and also why multicolumn print
umn print is used in newspapers.
is used in newspapers.
There are two similar environments: the quotation and the verse envi-
ronments. The quotation environment is useful for longer quotes going over
several paragraphs, because it indents the first line of each paragraph. The
verse environment is useful for poems where the line breaks are important.
The lines are separated by issuing a \\ at the end of a line and an empty
line after each verse.
I know only one English poem by

I know only one English poem by heart. It
heart. It is about Humpty Dumpty.
is about Humpty Dumpty.
\begin{flushleft}
\begin{verse}
Humpty Dumpty sat on a
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall:\\
wall:
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.\\
Humpty Dumpty had a great
All the Kings horses and all
fall.
the Kings men\\
All the Kings horses and all
Couldnt put Humpty together
the Kings men
again.
Couldnt put Humpty
\end{verse}
together again.
\end{flushleft}
2.11.4 Abstract
In scientific publications it is customary to start with an abstract which gives
the reader a quick overview of what to expect. LATEX provides the abstract
environment for this purpose. Normally abstract is used in documents
typeset with the article document class.
\begin{abstract}
The abstract abstract. The abstract abstract.
\end{abstract}
2.11.5 Printing Verbatim

Text that is enclosed between \begin{verbatim} and \end{verbatim} will
be directly printed, as if typed on a typewriter, with all line breaks and
spaces, without any LATEX command being executed.
Within a paragraph, similar behavior can be accessed with
\verb+text+
The + is just an example of a delimiter character. Use any character except

letters, * or space. Many LATEX examples in this booklet are typeset with
this command.
The \verb|\ldots| command \ldots

The \ldots command . . .
\begin{verbatim}
10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD "; 10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD ";
20 GOTO 10 20 GOTO 10
\end{verbatim}
\begin{verbatim*}
the starred version of thestarredversionof
the verbatim theverbatim
environment emphasizes environmentemphasizes
the spaces in the text thespacesinthetext
\end{verbatim*}
The \verb command can be used in a similar fashion with a star:
\verb*|like this :-) | likethis:-)
The verbatim environment and the \verb command may not be used
within parameters of other commands.
2.11.6 Tabular
The tabular environment can be used to typeset beautiful tables with
optional horizontal and vertical lines. LATEX determines the width of the
columns automatically.
The table spec argument of the
\begin{tabular}[pos]{table spec}
command defines the format of the table. Use an l for a column of left-
aligned text, r for right-aligned text, and c for centred text; p{width }
46 Typesetting Text
for a column containing justified text with line breaks, and | for a vertical
line.
If the text in a column is too wide for the page, LATEX wont automatically
wrap it. Using p{width } you can define a special type of column which
will wrap-around the text as in a normal paragraph.
The pos argument specifies the vertical position of the table relative to
the baseline of the surrounding text. Use one of the letters t , b and c to
specify table alignment at the top, bottom or centre.
Within a tabular environment, & jumps to the next column, \\ starts
a new line and \hline inserts a horizontal line. Add partial lines by using
\cline{i-j}, where i and j are the column numbers the line should extend
over.
\begin{tabular}{|r|l|}
\hline
7C0 & hexadecimal \\ 7C0 hexadecimal
3700 & octal \\ \cline{2-2} 3700 octal
11111000000 & binary \\ 11111000000 binary
\hline \hline
1984 decimal
1984 & decimal \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\begin{tabular}{|p{4.7cm}|}
\hline
Welcome to Boxys paragraph. Welcome to Boxys paragraph.
We sincerely hope youll We sincerely hope youll all en-
all enjoy the show.\\ joy the show.
\hline
\end{tabular}
The column separator can be specified with the @{...} construct. This
command kills the inter-column space and replaces it with whatever is
between the curly braces. One common use for this command is explained
below in the decimal alignment problem. Another possible application is to
suppress leading space in a table with @{} .
\begin{tabular}{@{} l @{}}
\hline
no leading space\\ no leading space
\hline
\end{tabular}
\begin{tabular}{l}
\hline
leading space left and right\\ leading space left and right
\hline
\end{tabular}
Since there is no built-in way to align numeric columns to a decimal

point,23 we can cheat and do it by using two columns: a right-aligned integer
and a left-aligned fraction. The @{.} command in the \begin{tabular}
line replaces the normal inter-column spacing with just a ., giving the
appearance of a single, decimal-point-justified column. Dont forget to
replace the decimal point in your numbers with a column separator (&)!
A column label can be placed above our numeric column by using the
\multicolumn command.
\begin{tabular}{c r @{.} l}
Pi expression &
\multicolumn{2}{c}{Value} \\ Pi expression Value
\hline 3.1416
$\pi$ & 3&1416 \\ 36.46
$\pi^{\pi}$ & 36&46 \\ ( ) 80662.7
$(\pi^{\pi})^{\pi}$ & 80662&7 \\
\end{tabular}
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|}
\hline
\multicolumn{2}{|c|}{Ene} \\
Ene
\hline
Mene Muh!
Mene & Muh! \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
Material typeset with the tabular environment always stays together on

one page. If you want to typeset long tables, you might want to use the
longtable environments.
Sometimes the default LATEX tables do feel a bit cramped. So you
may want to give them a bit more breathing space by setting a higher
\arraystretch and \tabcolsep value.
23
If the tools bundle is installed on your system, have a look at the dcolumn package.
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\begin{tabular}{|l|}
\hline
These lines\\\hline
are tight\\\hline
\end{tabular} These lines
are tight
{\renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1.5}
\renewcommand{\tabcolsep}{0.2cm} less cramped
\begin{tabular}{|l|}
table layout
\hline
less cramped\\\hline
table layout\\\hline
\end{tabular}}
If you just want to grow the height of a single row in your table add an
invisible vertical bar24 . Use a zero width \rule to implement this trick.
\begin{tabular}{|c|}
\hline
\rule{1pt}{4ex}Pitprop \ldots\\
Pitprop . . .
\hline
\rule{0pt}{4ex}Strut\\ Strut
\hline
\end{tabular}
The pt and ex in the example above are TEX units. Read more on units
in table 6.5 on page 130.
A number of extra commands, enhancing the tabular environment are
available in the booktabs package. It makes the creation of professional
looking tables with proper spacing quite a bit simpler.
2.12 Floating Bodies

Today most publications contain a lot of figures and tables. These elements
need special treatment, because they cannot be broken across pages. One
method would be to start a new page every time a figure or a table is too
large to fit on the present page. This approach would leave pages partially
empty, which looks very bad.
The solution to this problem is to float any figure or table that does not
fit on the current page to a later page, while filling the current page with
body text. LATEX offers two environments for floating bodies; one for tables
and one for figures. To take full advantage of these two environments it is
important to understand approximately how LATEX handles floats internally.
Otherwise floats may become a major source of frustration, because LATEX
never puts them where you want them to be.
24
In professional typesetting, this is called a strut.
2.12 Floating Bodies 49
Lets first have a look at the commands LATEX supplies for floats:
Any material enclosed in a figure or table environment will be treated
as floating matter. Both float environments support an optional parameter
\begin{figure}[placement specifier] or \begin{table}[. . . ]
called the placement specifier. This parameter is used to tell LATEX about the
locations to which the float is allowed to be moved. A placement specifier is
constructed by building a string of float-placing permissions. See Table 2.9.
For example, a table could be started with the following line
\begin{table}[!hbp]
The placement specifier [!hbp] allows LATEX to place the table right here
(h) or at the bottom (b) of some page or on a special floats page (p), and all
this even if it does not look that good (!). If no placement specifier is given,
the standard classes assume [tbp].
LATEX will place every float it encounters according to the placement
specifier supplied by the author. If a float cannot be placed on the current
page it is deferred either to the figures queue or the tables queue.25 When
a new page is started, LATEX first checks if it is possible to fill a special
float page with floats from the queues. If this is not possible, the first float
on each queue is treated as if it had just occurred in the text: LATEX tries
again to place it according to its respective placement specifiers (except h,
which is no longer possible). Any new floats occurring in the text get placed
into the appropriate queues. LATEX strictly maintains the original order of
appearance for each type of float. Thats why a figure that cannot be placed
pushes all further figures to the end of the document. Therefore:
25
These are FIFOfirst in first outqueues!
Table 2.9: Float Placing Permissions.

Spec Permission to place the float . . .
h here at the very place in the text where it oc-
curred. This is useful mainly for small floats.
t at the top of a page
b at the bottom of a page
p on a special page containing only floats.
! without considering most of the internal parame-
tersa , which could otherwise stop this float from
being placed.
a
Such as the maximum number of floats allowed on one page.
50 Typesetting Text
If LATEX is not placing the floats as you expected, it is often only

one float jamming one of the two float queues.
While it is possible to give LATEX single-location placement specifiers,

this causes problems. If the float does not fit in the location specified it
becomes stuck, blocking subsequent floats. In particular, you should never,
ever use the [h] optionit is so bad that in more recent versions of LATEX, it
is automatically replaced by [ht].
Having explained the difficult bit, there are some more things to mention
about the table and figure environments. Use the
\caption{caption text}
command to define a caption for the float. A running number and the string
Figure or Table will be added by LATEX.
The two commands
\listoffigures and \listoftables
operate analogously to the \tableofcontents command, printing a list of

figures or tables, respectively. These lists will display the whole caption, so if
you tend to use long captions you must have a shorter version of the caption
for the lists. This is accomplished by entering the short version in brackets
after the \caption command.
\caption[Short]{LLLLLoooooonnnnnggggg}
Use \label and \ref to create a reference to a float within your text.
Note that the \label command must come after the \caption command
since you want it to reference the number of the caption.
The following example draws a square and inserts it into the document.
You could use this if you wanted to reserve space for images you are going
to paste into the finished document.
Figure~\ref{white} is an example of Pop-Art.

\begin{figure}[!hbtp]
\makebox[\textwidth]{\framebox[5cm]{\rule{0pt}{5cm}}}
\caption{Five by Five in Centimetres.\label{white}}
\end{figure}
In the example above, LATEX will try really hard (!) to place the figure right
here (h).26 If this is not possible, it tries to place the figure at the bottom (b)
of the page. Failing to place the figure on the current page, it determines
26
assuming the figure queue is empty.
2.13 Protecting Fragile Commands 51
whether it is possible to create a float page containing this figure and maybe
some tables from the tables queue. If there is not enough material for a
special float page, LATEX starts a new page, and once more treats the figure
as if it had just occurred in the text.
Under certain circumstances it might be necessary to use the
\clearpage or even the \cleardoublepage
command. It orders LATEX to immediately place all floats remaining in the

queues and then start a new page. \cleardoublepage even goes to a new
right-hand page.
You will learn how to include PostScript drawings in your LATEX 2
documents later in this introduction.
2.13 Protecting Fragile Commands

Text given as arguments of commands like \caption or \section may show
up more than once in the document (e.g. in the table of contents as well as
in the body of the document). Some commands will break when used in the
argument of \section-like commands. Compilation of your document will
fail. These commands are called fragile commandsfor example, \footnote
or \phantom. These fragile commands need protection (dont we all?).
Protect them by putting the \protect command in front of them. Now they
will work properly even when used in moving arguments.
\protect only affects the next command, not even to its arguments. In
most cases a superfluous \protect wont hurt.
\section{I am considerate
\protect\footnote{and protect my footnotes}}
Chapter 3
Typesetting Mathematical
Formulae
Now you are ready! In this chapter, we will attack the main strength of TEX:
mathematical typesetting. But be warned, this chapter only scratches the surface.
While the things explained here are sufficient for many people, dont despair
if you cant find a solution to your mathematical typesetting needs here. It is
highly likely that your problem is addressed in AMS-LATEX.
3.1 The AMS-LATEX bundle

If you want to typeset (advanced) mathematics, you should use AMS-LATEX.
The AMS-LATEX bundle is a collection of packages and classes for mathemat-
ical typesetting. We will mostly deal with the amsmath package which is a
part of the bundle. AMS-LATEX is produced by The American Mathematical
Society and it is used extensively for mathematical typesetting. LATEX itself
does provide some basic features and environments for mathematics, but they
are limited (or maybe its the other way around: AMS-LATEX is unlimited!)
and in some cases inconsistent.
AMS-LATEX is a part of the required distribution and is provided with all
recent LATEX distributions.1 In this chapter, we assume amsmath is loaded
in the preamble; \usepackage{amsmath}.
3.2 Single Equations

A mathematical formula can be typeset in-line within a paragraph (text style),
or the paragraph can be broken and the formula typeset separately (display
style). Mathematical equations within a paragraph are entered between $
and $:
1
If yours is missing it, go to CTAN://pkg/amslatex.
54 Typesetting Mathematical Formulae
Add $a$ squared and $b$ squared

Add a squared and b squared to get c
to get $c$ squared. Or, using
squared. Or, using a more mathematical
a more mathematical approach:
approach: a2 + b2 = c2
$a^2 + b^2 = c^2$
\TeX{} is pronounced as TEX is pronounced as

$\tau\epsilon\chi$\\[5pt]
100 m3 of water
100~m$^{3}$ of water\\[5pt]
This comes from my $\heartsuit$ This comes from my
If you want your larger equations to be set apart from the rest of the
paragraph, it is preferable to display them rather than to break the para-
graph apart. To do this, you enclose them between \begin{equation} and
\end{equation}.2 You can then \label an equation number and refer to it
somewhere else in the text by using the \eqref command. If you want to
name the equation something specific, you \tag it instead.

to get $c$ squared. Or, using
Add a squared and b squared to get c
a more mathematical approach
squared. Or, using a more mathematical
\begin{equation}
approach
a^2 + b^2 = c^2
a2 + b2 = c2 (3.1)
\end{equation}
Einstein says Einstein says
\begin{equation}
E = mc^2 \label{clever} E = mc2 (3.2)
\end{equation}
He didnt say He didnt say
\begin{equation}
1+1=3 (dumb)
1 + 1 = 3 \tag{dumb}
\end{equation} This is a reference to (3.2).
This is a reference to
\eqref{clever}.
If you dont want LATEX to number the equations, use the starred version of
equation using an asterisk, equation*, or even easier, enclose the equation
in \[ and \]:3
2
This is an amsmath command. If you dont have access to the package for some obscure
reason, you can use LATEXs own displaymath environment instead.
3
This is again from amsmath. Standard LATEXs has only the equation environment
without the star.
3.2 Single Equations 55

to get $c$ squared. Or, using Add a squared and b squared to get c
a more mathematical approach squared. Or, using a more mathematical
\begin{equation*} approach
a^2 + b^2 = c^2 a2 + b2 = c2
\end{equation*} or you can type less for the same effect:
or you can type less for the
same effect: a2 + b2 = c2
\[ a^2 + b^2 = c^2 \]
While \[ is short and sweet, it does not allow switching between numbered
and not numbered style as easily as equation and equation*.
Note the difference in typesetting style between text style and display
style equations:
This is text style:

$\lim_{n \to \infty}
\sum_{k=1}^n \frac{1}{k^2} Pn 1 2
This is text style: limn k=1 k2 = 6 .
= \frac{\pi^2}{6}$.
And this is display style:
And this is display style:
\begin{equation} n
X 1 2
\lim_{n \to \infty} lim = (3.3)
n k2 6
\sum_{k=1}^n \frac{1}{k^2} k=1
= \frac{\pi^2}{6}
\end{equation}
In text style, enclose tall or deep math expressions or sub expressions

in \smash. This makes LATEX ignore the height of these expressions. This
keeps the line spacing even.
A $d_{e_{e_p}}$ mathematical
expression followed by a A deep mathematical expression followed
$h^{i^{g^h}}$ expression. As gh
opposed to a smashed by a hi expression. As opposed to ha
g
\smash{$d_{e_{e_p}}$} expression smashed deep expression followed by a hi
followed by a expression.
\smash{$h^{i^{g^h}}$} expression.
3.2.1 Math Mode

There are also differences between math mode and text mode. For example,
in math mode:
1. Most spaces and line breaks do not have any significance, as all spaces
are either derived logically from the mathematical expressions, or have
to be specified with special commands such as \,, \quad or \qquad
(well get back to that later, see section 3.7).
2. Empty lines are not allowed. Only one paragraph per formula.
3. Each letter is considered to be the name of a variable and will be

typeset as such. If you want to typeset normal text within a formula
(normal upright font and normal spacing) then you have to enter the
text using the \text{...} command (see also section 3.8 on page 70).
$\forall x \in \mathbf{R}:

\qquad x^{2} \geq 0$ x R : x2 0
$x^{2} \geq 0\qquad

x2 0 for all x R
\text{for all }x\in\mathbf{R}$
Mathematicians can be very fussy about which symbols are used: it would
be conventional here to use the blackboard bold font, which is obtained
using \mathbb from the package amssymb.4 The last example becomes
$x^{2} \geq 0\qquad

\text{for all } x x2 0 for all x R
\in \mathbb{R}$
See Table 3.14 on page 79 and Table 6.4 on page 125 for more math fonts.
3.3 Building Blocks of a Mathematical Formula

In this section, we describe the most important commands used in mathe-
matical typesetting. Most of the commands in this section will not require
amsmath (if they do, it will be stated clearly), but load it anyway.
Lowercase Greek letters are entered as \alpha, \beta, \gamma, . . . ,
uppercase letters are entered as \Gamma, \Delta, . . . 5
Take a look at Table 3.2 on page 75 for a list of Greek letters.
$\lambda,\xi,\pi,\theta,
, , , , , , ,
\mu,\Phi,\Omega,\Delta$
Exponents, Superscripts and Subscripts can be specified using the

^ and the _ characters. Most math mode commands act only on the next
character, so if you want a command to affect several characters, you have
to group them together using curly braces: {...}.
4
amssymb is not a part of the AMS-LATEX bundle, but it is perhaps still a part of your
LATEX distribution. Check your distribution or go to CTAN:/fonts/amsfonts/latex/ to
obtain it.
5
There is no uppercase Alpha, Beta etc. defined in LATEX 2 because it looks the same
as a normal roman A, B. . .
3.3 Building Blocks of a Mathematical Formula 57
Table 3.3 on page 76 lists a lot of binary relations like and .
$p^3_{ij} \qquad
m_\text{Knuth}\qquad P3
p3ij mKnuth k=1 k
\sum_{k=1}^3 k \\[5pt] 2
a^x+y \neq a^{x+y}\qquad ax + y 6= ax+y ex 6= ex 2
e^{x^2} \neq {e^x}^2$
The square root is entered as \sqrt; the nth root is generated with
\sqrt[n]. The size of the root sign is determined automatically by LATEX.
If just the sign is needed, use \surd.
See various kinds of arrows like , and
on Table 3.6 on page 77.
$\sqrt{x} \Leftrightarrow x^{1/2}

\quad \sqrt[3]{2} p
x x1/2 3
2 x2 + y [x2 + y 2 ]
\quad \sqrt{x^{2} + \sqrt{y}}
\quad \surd[x^2 + y^2]$
While the dot sign to indicate the multiplication operation is normally

left out, it is sometimes written to help the eye in grouping a formula. Use
\cdot to typeset a single centered dot. \cdots is three centered dots while
\ldots sets the dots low (on the baseline). Besides that, there are \vdots
for vertical and \ddots for diagonal dots. There are more examples in
section 3.6.
$\Psi = v_1 \cdot v_2

\cdot \ldots \qquad
= v1 v2 . . . n! = 1 2 (n 1) n
n! = 1 \cdot 2
\cdots (n-1) \cdot n$
The commands \overline and \underline create horizontal lines

directly over or under an expression:
$0.\overline{3} = 0.3 = 1/3

\underline{\underline{1/3}}$
The commands \overbrace and \underbrace create long horizontal

braces over or under an expression:
6 7
$\underbrace{\overbrace{a+b+c}^6 z }| { z }| {
\cdot \overbrace{d+e+f}^7} a + b + c d + e + f = 42
| {z }
_\text{meaning of life} = 42$ meaning of life
To add mathematical accents such as small arrows or tilde signs to

variables, the commands given in Table 3.1 on page 75 might be useful. Wide
hats and tildes covering several characters are generated with \widetilde
and \widehat. Notice the difference between \hat and \widehat and the
placement of \bar for a variable with subscript. The apostrophe mark
gives a prime:
$f(x) = x^2 \qquad f(x)

= 2x \qquad f(x) = 2\\[5pt] f (x) = x2 f 0 (x) = 2x f 00 (x) = 2
\hat{XY} \quad \widehat{XY}
XY XY
d x0 x0
\quad \bar{x_0} \quad \bar{x}_0$
Vectors are often specified by adding small arrow symbols on the tops
of variables. This is done with the \vec command. The two commands
\overrightarrow and \overleftarrow are useful to denote the vector from
A to B:
$\vec{a} \qquad
\vec{AB} \qquad ~
~a AB AB
\overrightarrow{AB}$
Names of functions are often typeset in an upright font, and not in italics
as variables are, so LATEX supplies the following commands to typeset the
most common function names:
\arccos \cos \csc \exp \ker \limsup
\arcsin \cosh \deg \gcd \lg \ln
\arctan \cot \det \hom \lim \log
\arg \coth \dim \inf \liminf \max
\sinh \sup \tan \tanh \min \Pr
\sec \sin
\begin{equation*}
\lim_{x \rightarrow 0} sin x
\frac{\sin x}{x}=1 lim =1
x0 x
\end{equation*}
For functions missing from the list, use the \DeclareMathOperator

command. There is even a starred version for functions with limits. This
command works only in the preamble so the commented lines in the example
below must be put into the preamble.
%\DeclareMathOperator{\argh}{argh}
%\DeclareMathOperator*{\nut}{Nut}
\begin{equation*} 3 argh = 2 Nut
x=1
3\argh = 2\nut_{x=1}
\end{equation*}
For the modulo function, there are two commands: \bmod for the binary
operator a mod b and \pmod for expressions such as x a (mod b):
3.3 Building Blocks of a Mathematical Formula 59
$a\bmod b \\ a mod b
x\equiv a \pmod{b}$ x a (mod b)
A built-up fraction is typeset with the \frac{...}{...} command. In

in-line equations, the fraction is shrunk to fit the line. This style is obtainable
in display style with \tfrac. The reverse, i.e. display style fraction in text,
is made with \dfrac. Often the slashed form 1/2 is preferable, because it
looks better for small amounts of fraction material:
In display style:
\begin{equation*} In display style:
3/8 \qquad \frac{3}{8} 3 3
\qquad \tfrac{3}{8} 3/8 8
8
\end{equation*}
In text style:
1
$1\frac{1}{2}$~hours \qquad In text style: 1 21 hours 1 hours
$1\dfrac{1}{2}$~hours 2
Here the \partial command for partial derivatives is used:
\begin{equation*}
\sqrt{\frac{x^2}{k+1}}\qquad r
x^\frac{2}{k+1}\qquad x2 2 2f
\frac{\partial^2f} x k+1
k+1 x2
{\partial x^2}
\end{equation*}
To typeset binomial coefficients or similar structures, use the command

\binom from amsmath:
Pascals rule is
\begin{equation*} Pascals rule is
\binom{n}{k} =\binom{n-1}{k}
n n1

n1

+ \binom{n-1}{k-1} = +
k k k1
\end{equation*}
For binary relations it may be useful to stack symbols over each other.
\stackrel{#1}{#2} puts the symbol given in #1 in superscript-like size over
#2 which is set in its usual position.
\begin{equation*}

f_n(x) \stackrel{*}{\approx} 1 fn (x) 1
\end{equation*}
The integral operator is generated with \int, the sum operator with
\sum, and the product operator with \prod. The upper and lower limits
are specified with ^ and _ like superscripts and subscripts:
\begin{equation*}
\sum_{i=1}^n \qquad n
X Z
2 Y
\int_0^{\frac{\pi}{2}} \qquad
\prod_\epsilon i=1 0
\end{equation*}
To get more control over the placement of indices in complex expressions,

amsmath provides the \substack command:
\begin{equation*}
n
\sum^n_{\substack{0<i<n \\ X
j\subseteq i}} P (i, j) = Q(i, j)
0<i<n
P(i,j) = Q(i,j) ji
\end{equation*}
LATEX provides all sorts of symbols for bracketing and other delim-
iters (e.g. [ h k l). Round and square brackets can be entered with the
corresponding keys and curly braces with \{, but all other delimiters are
generated with special commands (e.g. \updownarrow).
\begin{equation*}
{a,b,c} \neq \{a,b,c\} a, b, c 6= {a, b, c}
\end{equation*}
If you put \left in front of an opening delimiter and \right in front of

a closing delimiter, LATEX will automatically determine the correct size of
the delimiter. Note that you must close every \left with a corresponding
\right. If you dont want anything on the right, use the invisible \right.:
\begin{equation*}
1 + \left(\frac{1}{1-x^{2}} 3
1
\right)^3 \qquad 1+
\left. \ddagger \frac{~}{~}\right) 1 x2
\end{equation*}
In some cases it is necessary to specify the correct size of a mathematical

delimiter by hand, which can be done using the commands \big, \Big, \bigg
and \Bigg as prefixes to most delimiter commands:
$\Big((x+1)(x-1)\Big)^{2}$\\ 2
$\big( \Big( \bigg( \Bigg( \quad (x + 1)(x 1)
\big\} \Big\} \bigg\} \Bigg\} \quad ) ww
o ww ww
\big\| \Big\| \bigg\| \Bigg\| \quad
ww
w
\big\Downarrow \Big\Downarrow
w

\bigg\Downarrow \Bigg\Downarrow$
3.4 Single Equations that are Too Long: multline 61
For a list of all delimiters available, see Table 3.8 on page 78.
3.4 Single Equations that are Too Long: multline

If an equation is too long, we have to wrap it somehow. Unfortunately,
wrapped equations are usually less easy to read than not wrapped ones. To
improve the readability, there are certain rules on how to do the wrapping:
1. In general one should always wrap an equation before an equality sign

or an operator.
2. A wrap before an equality sign is preferable to a wrap before any

operator.
3. A wrap before a plus- or minus-operator is preferable to a wrap before

a multiplication-operator.
4. Any other type of wrap should be avoided if at all possible.
The easiest way to achieve such a wrapping is the use of the multline
environment:6
\begin{multline}
a + b + c + d + e + f
+ g + h + i
a+b+c+d+e+f +g+h+i
\\
= j + k + l + m + n =j+k+l+m+n (3.4)
\end{multline}
The difference from the equation environment is that an arbitrary line-break

(or also multiple line-breaks) can be introduced. This is done by putting a
\\ on those places where the equation needs to be wrapped. Similarly to
equation* there also exists a multline* version for preventing an equation
number.
Often the IEEEeqnarray environment (see section 3.5) will yield better
results. Consider the following situation:
\begin{equation}
a = b + c + d + e + f
+ g + h + i + j
+ k + l + m + n + o + p a = b+c+d+e+f +g+h+i+j+k+l+m+n+o+p
\label{eq:equation_too_long} (3.5)
\end{equation}
Here it is actually the RHS that is too long to fit on one line. The multline
environment creates the following output:
6
The multline-environment is from amsmath.
\begin{multline}
a = b + c + d + e + f
+ g + h + i + j \\ a=b+c+d+e+f +g+h+i+j
+ k + l + m + n + o + p +k+l+m+n+o+p (3.6)
\end{multline}
This is better than (3.5), but it has the disadvantage that the equality
sign loses its natural greater importance with respect to the plus operator in
front of k. The better solution is provided by the IEEEeqnarray environment
that will be discussed in detail in Section 3.5.
3.5 Multiple Equations

In the most general situation we have a sequence of several equalities that
do not fit onto one line. Here we need to work with vertical alignment in
order to keep the array of equations in a nice and readable structure.
Before we offer our suggestions on how to do this, we start with a few
bad examples that show the biggest drawbacks of some common solutions.
3.5.1 Problems with Traditional Commands

To group multiple equations the align environment7 could be used:
\begin{align}
a & = b + c \\
a=b+c (3.7)
& = d + e
\end{align} =d+e (3.8)
this approach fails once a single line is too long:
\begin{align}
a & = b + c \\
& = d + e + f + g + h + i a=b+c (3.9)
+ j + k + l \nonumber \\ =d+e+f +g+h+i+j+k+l
& + m + n + o \\ +m+n+o (3.10)
& = p + q + r + s
=p+q+r+s (3.11)
\end{align}
Here + m should be below d and not below the equality sign. A TEXpert
will point out that \mathrel{\phantom{=}} \negmedspace {}, would add
the necessary space in front of +m+n+o, but since most users lack that kind
of imagination, a simpler solution would be nice.
7
The align-environment can also be used to group several blocks of equations beside
each other. Another excellent use case for the IEEEeqnarray environment. Try an argument
like {rCl+rCl}.
3.5 Multiple Equations 63
This is the moment where the eqnarray environment bursts onto the
scene:
\begin{eqnarray}
a & = & b + c \\
& = & d + e + f + g + h + i a = b+c (3.12)
+ j + k + l \nonumber \\ = d+e+f +g+h+i+j+k+l
&& +\: m + n + o \\ +m+n+o (3.13)
& = & p + q + r + s
= p+q+r+s (3.14)
\end{eqnarray}
It better but still not optimal. The spaces around the equality signs
are too big. Particularly, they are not the same as in the multline and
equation environments:
\begin{eqnarray}
a & = & a = a
\end{eqnarray} a = a=a (3.15)
. . . and the expression sometimes overlaps with the equation number even
though there would be enough room on the left:
\begin{eqnarray}
a & = & b + c
\\
& = & d + e + f + g + h^2 a = b+c (3.16)
+ i^2 + j 2 2
= d + e + f + g + h + i +(3.17)
j
\label{eq:faultyeqnarray}
\end{eqnarray}
While the environment offers a command \lefteqn that can be used when
the LHS is too long:
\begin{eqnarray}
\lefteqn{a + b + c + d
+ e + f + g + h}\nonumber\\ a+b+c+d+e+f +g+h
& = & i + j + k + l + m
\\ = i+j+k+l+m (3.18)
& = & n + o + p + q + r + s = n + o + p + q + r + s (3.19)
\end{eqnarray}
This is not optimal either as the RHS is too short and the array is not
properly centered:
\begin{eqnarray}
\lefteqn{a + b + c + d
+ e + f + g + h}
a+b+c+d+e+f +g+h
\nonumber \\
& = & i + j = i+j (3.20)
\end{eqnarray}
Having badmouthed the competition sufficiently, I can now steer you gently
towards the glorious . . .
3.5.2 IEEEeqnarray Environment

The IEEEeqnarray environment is a very powerful command with many
options. Here, we will only introduce its basic functionalities. For more
information please refer to the manual.8
First of all, in order to be able to use the IEEEeqnarray environment
one needs to load the package9 IEEEtrantools. Include the following line in
the header of your document:
\usepackage[retainorgcmds]{IEEEtrantools}
The strength of IEEEeqnarray is the ability to specify the number of
columns in the equation array. Usually, this specification will be {rCl},
i.e., three columns, the first column right-justified, the middle one centered
with a little more space around it (therefore we specify capital C instead of
lower-case c) and the third column left-justified:
\begin{IEEEeqnarray}{rCl}
a & = & b + c
\\
& = & d + e + f + g + h a=b+c (3.21)
+ i + j + k \nonumber\\ =d+e+f +g+h+i+j+k
&& \negmedspace {} + l + m + n + o +l+m+n+o (3.22)
\\
=p+q+r+s (3.23)
& = & p + q + r + s
\end{IEEEeqnarray}
Any number of columns can be specified: {c} will give only one column
with all entries centered, or {rCll} would add a fourth, left-justified column
to use for comments. Moreover, beside l, c, r, L, C, R for math mode
entries there are also s, t, u for left, centered, and right text mode entries.
Additional space can be added with . and / and ? in increasing order.10
Note the spaces around the equality signs in contrast to the space produced
by the eqnarray environment.
8
The official manual is called CTAN://macros/latex/contrib/IEEEtran/IEEEtran_
HOWTO.pdf. The part about IEEEeqnarray can be found in Appendix F.
9
The IEEEtrantools package may not be included in your setup, it can be found on
CTAN.
10
For more spacing types refer to Section 3.9.1.
3.5 Multiple Equations 65
3.5.3 Common Usage

In the following we will describe how we use IEEEeqnarray to solve the most
common problems.
If a line overlaps with the equation number as in (3.17), the command
\IEEEeqnarraynumspace
can be used: it has to be added in the corresponding line and makes sure
that the whole equation array is shifted by the size of the equation numbers
(the shift depends on the size of the number!): instead of
a & = & b + c
\\
& = & d + e + f + g + h a=b+c (3.24)
+ i + j + k = d + e + f + g + h + i + j + (3.25)
k
\\ =l+m+n (3.26)
& = & l + m + n
\end{IEEEeqnarray}
we get
a & = & b + c
\\
& = & d + e + f + g + h a=b+c (3.27)
+ i + j + k = d + e + f + g + h + i + j + k (3.28)
\IEEEeqnarraynumspace\\ = l + m + n. (3.29)
& = & l + m + n.
\end{IEEEeqnarray}
If the LHS is too long, as a replacement for the faulty \lefteqn command,
IEEEeqnarray offers the \IEEEeqnarraymulticol command which works
in all situations:
\IEEEeqnarraymulticol{3}{l}{
a + b + c + d + e + f
+ g + h a+b+c+d+e+f +g+h
}\nonumber\\ \quad
& = & i + j =i+j (3.30)
\\ =k+l+m (3.31)
& = & k + l + m
\end{IEEEeqnarray}
The usage is identical to the \multicolumns command in the tabular-

environment. The first argument {3} specifies that three columns shall be
combined into one which will be left-justified {l}.
Note that by inserting \quad commands one can easily adapt the depth
of the equation signs,11 e.g.,
\IEEEeqnarraymulticol{3}{l}{
a + b + c + d + e + f
+ g + h a+b+c+d+e+f +g+h
}\nonumber\\ \qquad\qquad
& = & i + j =i+j (3.32)
\\ =k+l+m (3.33)
& = & k + l + m
\end{IEEEeqnarray}
If an equation is split into two or more lines, LATEX interprets the first
+ or as a sign instead of operator. Therefore, it is necessary to add an
empty group {} before the operator: instead of
a & = & b + c
\\
& = & d + e + f + g + h a=b+c (3.34)
&& + l + m + n + o +l + m + n + o (3.35)
\\
=p+q+r+s (3.36)
& = & p + q + r + s
\end{IEEEeqnarray}
we should write
a & = & b + c
\\
& = & d + e + f + g + h a=b+c (3.37)
&& \negmedspace {} + l + m + n + o +l+m+n+o (3.38)
\\
=p+q+r+s (3.39)
& = & p + q + r + s
\end{IEEEeqnarray}
Note the space difference between + and l! The construction {} + l forces

the +-sign to be an operator rather than just a sign, and the unwanted
ensuing space between {} and + is compensated by a negative medium space
\negmedspace.
If a particular line should not have an equation number, the number
can be suppressed using \nonumber (or \IEEEnonumber). If on such a line
a label \label{eq:...} is defined, then this label is passed on to the next
11
I think that one quad is the distance that looks good for most cases.
3.6 Arrays and Matrices 67
equation number that is not suppressed. Place the labels right before the
line-break \\ or the next to the equation it belongs to. Apart from improving
the readability of the source code this prevents a compilation error when a
\IEEEmulticol command follows the label-definition.
There also exists a *-version where all equation numbers are suppressed.
In this case an equation number can be made to appear using the command
\IEEEyesnumber:
\begin{IEEEeqnarray*}{rCl}
a & = & b + c \\ a=b+c
& = & d + e \IEEEyesnumber\\
& = & f + g =d+e (3.40)
\end{IEEEeqnarray*} =f +g
Sub-numbers are also easily possible using \IEEEyessubnumber:
a & = & b + c
\IEEEyessubnumber\\
& = & d + e a=b+c (3.40a)
\nonumber\\ =d+e
& = & f + g =f +g (3.40b)
\IEEEyessubnumber
\end{IEEEeqnarray}
3.6 Arrays and Matrices

To typeset arrays, use the array environment. It works in a similar way to
the tabular environment. The \\ command is used to break the lines:
\begin{equation*}
\mathbf{X} = \left(
\begin{array}{ccc}
x1 x2 ...

x_1 & x_2 & \ldots \\ x3 x4 ...
X=
x_3 & x_4 & \ldots \\ .. .. ..

\vdots & \vdots & \ddots . . .
\end{array} \right)
\end{equation*}
The array environment can also be used to typeset piecewise functions

by using a . as an invisible \right delimiter:
\begin{equation*}
|x| = \left\{
\begin{array}{rl}
-x & \text{if } x < 0,\\ x if x < 0,
|x| = 0 if x = 0,
0 & \text{if } x = 0,\\
x if x > 0.

x & \text{if } x > 0.
\end{array} \right.
\end{equation*}
The cases environment from amsmath simplifies the syntax, so it is worth

a look:
\begin{equation*}
|x| =
\begin{cases}
-x & \text{if } x < 0,\\ x if x < 0,

|x| = 0 if x = 0,
0 & \text{if } x = 0,\\
x if x > 0.

x & \text{if } x > 0.
\end{cases}
\end{equation*}
Matrices can be typeset by array, but amsmath provides a better solution

using the different matrix environments. There are six versions with different
delimiters: matrix (none), pmatrix (, bmatrix [, Bmatrix {, vmatrix | and
Vmatrix k. You dont have to specify the number of columns as with array.
The maximum number is 10, but it is customisable (though it is not very
often you need 10 columns!):
\begin{equation*}
\begin{matrix}
1 & 2 \\
3 & 4
\end{matrix} \qquad
\begin{bmatrix}
p_{11} & p_{12} & \ldots

p11 p12 ... p1n
& p_{1n} \\ p21 p22 ... p2n
1 2
p_{21} & p_{22} & \ldots .. .. .. ..
3 4 . . . .
& p_{2n} \\
\vdots & \vdots & \ddots pm1 pm2 ... pmn
& \vdots \\
p_{m1} & p_{m2} & \ldots
& p_{mn}
\end{bmatrix}
\end{equation*}
3.7 Spacing in Math Mode 69
3.7 Spacing in Math Mode

If the spacing within formulae chosen by LATEX is not satisfactory, it can be
3
adjusted by inserting special spacing commands: \, for 18 quad ( ), \: for
4 5
18 quad ( ) and \; for 18 quad ( ). The escaped space character \ generates
a medium sized space comparable to the interword spacing and \quad ( )
and \qquad ( ) produce large spaces. The size of a \quad corresponds
to the width of the character M of the current font. \! produces a negative
3
space of 18 quad ( ).
\begin{equation*}
\int_1^2 \ln x \mathrm{d}x Z 2 Z 2
\qquad ln xdx ln x dx
\int_1^2 \ln x \,\mathrm{d}x 1 1
\end{equation*}
Note that d in the differential is conventionally set in roman. In the

next example, we define a new command \ud (upright d) which produces d
(notice the spacing before the d), so we dont have to write it every time.
The \newcommand is placed in the preamble.
\newcommand{\ud}{\,\mathrm{d}}
Z b
\begin{equation*} f (x) dx
\int_a^b f(x)\ud x a
\end{equation*}
If you want to typeset multiple integrals, youll discover that the spacing
between the integrals is too wide. You can correct it using \!, but amsmath
provides an easier way for fine-tuning the spacing, namely the \iint, \iiint,
\iiiint, and \idotsint commands.
\newcommand{\ud}{\,\mathrm{d}}
Z Z
\begin{IEEEeqnarray*}{c} f (x)g(y) dx dy
\int\int f(x)g(y) ZZ
\ud x \ud y \\
f (x)g(y) dx dy
\int\!\!\!\int ZZ
f(x)g(y) \ud x \ud y \\
f (x)g(y) dx dy
\iint f(x)g(y) \ud x \ud y
\end{IEEEeqnarray*}
See the electronic document testmath.tex (distributed with AMS-LATEX)

or Chapter 8 of The LATEX Companion [3] for further details.
3.7.1 Phantoms
When vertically aligning text using ^ and _ LATEX is sometimes just a little too
helpful. Using the \phantom command you can reserve space for characters
that do not show up in the final output. The easiest way to understand this
is to look at an example:
\begin{equation*}
{}^{14}_{6}\text{C}
\qquad \text{versus} \qquad 14 14
6 C versus 6C
{}^{14}_{\phantom{1}6}\text{C}
\end{equation*}
If you want to typeset a lot of isotopes as in the example, the mhchem

package is very useful for typesetting isotopes and chemical formulae too.
3.8 Fiddling with the Math Fonts

Different math fonts are listed on Table 3.14 on page 79.
$\Re \qquad
\mathcal{R} \qquad
\mathfrak{R} \qquad < R R R
\mathbb{R} \qquad $
The last two require amssymb or amsfonts.

Sometimes you need to tell LATEX the correct font size. In math mode,
this is set with the following four commands:
\displaystyle (123), \textstyle (123), \scriptstyle (123) and

\scriptscriptstyle (123).
P
If is placed in a fraction, itll be typeset in text style unless you tell
A
L TEX otherwise:
\begin{equation*}
P = \frac{\displaystyle{
\sum_{i=1}^n (x_i- x) n
X
(y_i- y)}} (xi x)(yi y)
{\displaystyle{\left[ i=1
P =" #1/2
\sum_{i=1}^n(x_i-x)^2 Xn n
X
\sum_{i=1}^n(y_i- y)^2 (xi x)2 (yi y)2
\right]^{1/2}}} i=1 i=1
\end{equation*}
Changing styles generally affects the way big operators and limits are
displayed.
3.9 Theorems, Lemmas, . . . 71
3.8.1 Bold Symbols

It is quite difficult to get bold symbols in LATEX; this is probably intentional
as amateur typesetters tend to overuse them. The font change command
\mathbf gives bold letters, but these are roman (upright) whereas math-
ematical symbols are normally italic, and furthermore it doesnt work on
lower case Greek letters. There is a \boldmath command, but this can only
be used outside math mode. It works for symbols too, though:
$\mu, M \qquad
\mathbf{\mu}, \mathbf{M}$ , M , M , M
\qquad \boldmath{$\mu, M$}
The package amsbsy (included by amsmath) as well as the package bm

from the tools bundle make this much easier as they include a \boldsymbol
command:
$\mu, M \qquad
, M , M
\boldsymbol{\mu}, \boldsymbol{M}$
3.9 Theorems, Lemmas, . . .

When writing mathematical documents, you probably need a way to typeset
Lemmas, Definitions, Axioms and similar structures.
\newtheorem{name}[counter]{text}[section]
The name argument is a short keyword used to identify the theorem.

With the text argument you define the actual name of the theorem, which
will be printed in the final document.
The arguments in square brackets are optional. They are both used to
specify the numbering used on the theorem. Use the counter argument to
specify the name of a previously declared theorem. The new theorem
will then be numbered in the same sequence. The section argument allows
you to specify the sectional unit within which the theorem should get its
numbers.
After executing the \newtheorem command in the preamble of your
document, you can use the following command within the document.
\begin{name}[text]
This is my interesting theorem
\end{name}
The amsthm package (part of AMS-LATEX) provides the \theoremstyle{style}

command which lets you define what the theorem is all about by picking
from three predefined styles: definition (fat title, roman body), plain (fat
title, italic body) or remark (italic title, roman body).
This should be enough theory. The following examples should remove
any remaining doubt, and make it clear that the \newtheorem environment
is way too complex to understand.
First define the theorems:
\theoremstyle{definition} \newtheorem{law}{Law}
\theoremstyle{plain} \newtheorem{jury}[law]{Jury}
\theoremstyle{remark} \newtheorem*{marg}{Margaret}
\begin{law} \label{law:box}
Dont hide in the witness box
Law 1. Dont hide in the witness box
\end{law}
\begin{jury}[The Twelve] Jury 2 (The Twelve). It could be you! So
It could be you! So beware and beware and see law 1.
see law~\ref{law:box}.\end{jury}
\begin{jury} Jury 3. You will disregard the last state-
You will disregard the last ment.
statement.\end{jury}
\begin{marg}No, No, No\end{marg} Margaret. No, No, No
\begin{marg}Denis!\end{marg} Margaret. Denis!
The Jury theorem uses the same counter as the Law theorem, so it
gets a number that is in sequence with the other Laws. The argument in
square brackets is used to specify a title or something similar for the theorem.
\newtheorem{mur}{Murphy}[section]
\begin{mur} If there are two or Murphy 3.9.1. If there are two or more
more ways to do something, and ways to do something, and one of those
one of those ways can result in ways can result in a catastrophe, then
a catastrophe, then someone someone will do it.
will do it.\end{mur}
The Murphy theorem gets a number that is linked to the number of

the current section. You could also use another unit, for example chapter or
subsection.
If you want to customize your theorems down to the last dot, the ntheorem
package offers a plethora of options.
3.9.1 Proofs and End-of-Proof Symbol

The amsthm package also provides the proof environment.
3.9 Theorems, Lemmas, . . . 73
\begin{proof}
Trivial, use Proof. Trivial, use
\begin{equation*}
E=mc^2. E = mc2 .
\end{equation*}
\end{proof}
With the command \qedhere you can move the end of proof symbol
around for situations where it would end up alone on a line.
\begin{proof}
Trivial, use
\begin{equation*} Proof. Trivial, use
E=mc^2. \qedhere
E = mc2 .
\end{equation*}
\end{proof}
Unfortunately, this correction does not work for IEEEeqnarray:
\begin{proof}
This is a proof that ends
Proof. This is a proof that ends with an
with an equation array:
equation array:
\begin{IEEEeqnarray*}{rCl}
a & = & b + c \\ a=b+c
& = & d + e. \qedhere
\end{IEEEeqnarray*} = d + e.
\end{proof}
The reason for this is the internal structure of IEEEeqnarray: it always

puts two invisible columns at both sides of the array that only contain a
stretchable space. By this IEEEeqnarray ensures that the equation array
is horizontally centered. The \qedhere command should actually be put
outside this stretchable space, but this does not happen as these columns
are invisible to the user.
There is a very simple remedy. Define the stretching explicitly!
\begin{proof}
equation array:
\begin{IEEEeqnarray*}{+rCl+x*}
a & = & b + c \\ a=b+c
& = & d + e. & \qedhere
\end{IEEEeqnarray*} = d + e.
\end{proof}
Note that the + in {+rCl+x*} denotes stretchable spaces, one on the left
of the equations (which, if not specified, will be done automatically by
IEEEeqnarray!) and one on the right of the equations. But now on the
right, after the stretching column, we add an empty column x. This column
will only be needed on the last line if the \qedhere command is put there.
Finally, we specify a *. This is a null-space that prevents IEEEeqnarray
from adding another unwanted +-space!
In the case of equation numbering, there is a similar problem. Comparing
\begin{proof}
This is a proof that ends Proof. This is a proof that ends with a
with a numbered equation: numbered equation:
\begin{equation}
a = b + c. a = b + c. (3.41)
\end{equation}
\end{proof}
with
\begin{proof}
This is a proof that ends Proof. This is a proof that ends with a
with a numbered equation: numbered equation:
\begin{equation}
a = b + c. \qedhere a = b + c. (3.42)
\end{equation}
\end{proof}
you notice that in the (correct) second version the 2 is much closer to the
equation than in the first version.
Similarly, the correct way of putting the QED-symbol at the end of an
equation array is as follows:
\begin{proof}
equation array:
\begin{IEEEeqnarray}{+rCl+x*}
a & = & b + c \\ a=b+c (3.43)
& = & d + e. \\
= d + e. (3.44)
&&& \qedhere\nonumber
\end{IEEEeqnarray}
\end{proof}
which contrasts with
\begin{proof}
This is a proof that ends Proof. This is a proof that ends with an
with an equation array: equation array:
a=b+c (3.45)
a & = & b + c \\
& = & d + e. = d + e. (3.46)
\end{IEEEeqnarray}
\end{proof}
3.10 List of Mathematical Symbols 75
3.10 List of Mathematical Symbols

The following tables demonstrate all the symbols normally accessible from
math mode.
Note that some tables show symbols only accessible after loading the
amssymb package in the preamble of your document12 . If the AMS pack-
age and fonts are not installed on your system, have a look at CTAN:
pkg/amslatex. An even more comprehensive list of symbols can be found
at CTAN:info/symbols/comprehensive.
Table 3.1: Math Mode Accents.

a \hat{a} a \check{a} a \tilde{a}
a \grave{a} a \dot{a} a \ddot{a}
a \bar{a} ~a \vec{a} AAA
[ \widehat{AAA}
a \acute{a} a \breve{a} AAA
] \widetilde{AAA}
a \mathring{a}
Table 3.2: Greek Letters.
There is no uppercase of some of the letters like \Alpha, \Beta and so on,
because they look the same as normal roman letters: A, B. . .
\alpha \theta o o \upsilon

\beta \vartheta \pi \phi
\gamma \iota $ \varpi \varphi
\delta \kappa \rho \chi
\epsilon \lambda % \varrho \psi
\varepsilon \mu \sigma \omega
\zeta \nu \varsigma
\eta \xi \tau
\Gamma \Lambda \Sigma \Psi
\Delta \Xi \Upsilon \Omega
\Theta \Pi \Phi
12
The tables were derived from symbols.tex by David Carlisle and subsequently changed
extensively as suggested by Josef Tkadlec.
Table 3.3: Binary Relations.
You can negate the following symbols by prefixing them with a \not com-
mand.
< < > > = =
\leq or \le \geq or \ge \equiv
.
\ll \gg = \doteq
\prec \succ \sim
\preceq \succeq ' \simeq
\subset \supset \approx
\subseteq \supseteq
= \cong
@ \sqsubset a A \sqsupset a 1 \Join a
v \sqsubseteq w \sqsupseteq ./ \bowtie
\in 3 \ni , \owns \propto
` \vdash a \dashv |= \models
| \mid k \parallel \perp
^ \smile _ \frown \asymp
: :
/ \notin 6= \neq or \ne
a
Use the latexsym package to access this symbol
Table 3.4: Binary Operators.
+ + -
\pm \mp / \triangleleft
\cdot \div . \triangleright
\times \ \setminus ? \star
\cup \cap \ast
t \sqcup u \sqcap \circ
\vee , \lor \wedge , \land \bullet
\oplus \ominus \diamond
\odot \oslash ] \uplus
\otimes \bigcirc q \amalg
4 \bigtriangleup 5 \bigtriangledown \dagger
\lhd a \rhd a \ddagger
\unlhd a \unrhd a o \wr
Table 3.5: BIG Operators.

P S W
\sum \bigcup \bigvee
Q T V
\prod \bigcap \bigwedge
` F U
\coprod \bigsqcup \biguplus
R H J
\int \oint \bigodot
L N
\bigoplus \bigotimes
Table 3.6: Arrows.

\leftarrow or \gets \longleftarrow
\rightarrow or \to \longrightarrow
\leftrightarrow \longleftrightarrow
\Leftarrow = \Longleftarrow
\Rightarrow = \Longrightarrow
\Leftrightarrow \Longleftrightarrow
7 \mapsto 7 \longmapsto
- \hookleftarrow , \hookrightarrow
( \leftharpoonup * \rightharpoonup
) \leftharpoondown + \rightharpoondown

\rightleftharpoons \iff (bigger spaces)
\uparrow \downarrow
l \updownarrow \Uparrow
\Downarrow m \Updownarrow
% \nearrow & \searrow
. \swarrow - \nwarrow
; \leadsto a
a
Table 3.7: Arrows as Accents.

AB \overrightarrow{AB} AB
\underrightarrow{AB}

AB \overleftarrow{AB} AB
\underleftarrow{AB}

AB \overleftrightarrow{AB} AB
\underleftrightarrow{AB}
Table 3.8: Delimiters.

( ( ) ) \uparrow
[ [ or \lbrack ] ] or \rbrack \downarrow
{ \{ or \lbrace } \} or \rbrace l \updownarrow
h \langle i \rangle \Uparrow
| | or \vert k \| or \Vert \Downarrow
/ / \ \backslash m \Updownarrow
b \lfloor c \rfloor
e \rceil d \lceil
Table 3.9: Large Delimiters.

\lgroup \rgroup \lmoustache
w
\arrowvert \Arrowvert \bracevert
w

\rmoustache
Table 3.10: Miscellaneous Symbols.

.. ..
... \dots \cdots . \vdots . \ddots
~ \hbar \imath \jmath ` \ell
< \Re = \Im \aleph \wp
\forall \exists f \mho a \partial
0 0 \prime \emptyset \infty
\nabla 4 \triangle 2 \Box a 3 \Diamond a

\bot > \top \angle \surd
\diamondsuit \heartsuit \clubsuit \spadesuit
\neg or \lnot [ \flat \ \natural ] \sharp
a
Table 3.11: Non-Mathematical Symbols.
These symbols can also be used in text mode.
\dag \S \copyright \textregistered

\ddag \P \pounds % \%
Table 3.12: AMS Delimiters.
p \ulcorner q \urcorner x \llcorner y \lrcorner

| \lvert | \rvert k \lVert k \rVert
Table 3.13: AMS Greek and Hebrew.
z \digamma \varkappa i \beth \gimel k \daleth
Table 3.14: Math Alphabets.
See Table 6.4 on 125 for other math fonts.

Example Command Required package
ABCDEabcde1234 \mathrm{ABCDE abcde 1234}
ABCDEabcde1234 \mathit{ABCDE abcde 1234}
ABCDEabcde1234 \mathnormal{ABCDE abcde 1234}
ABCDE \mathcal{ABCDE abcde 1234}
A BC DE \mathscr{ABCDE abcde 1234} mathrsfs
ABCDEabcde1234 \mathfrak{ABCDE abcde 1234} amsfonts or amssymb
ABCDEa1234 \mathbb{ABCDE abcde 1234} amsfonts or amssymb
Table 3.15: AMS Binary Operators.
u \dotplus \centerdot
n \ltimes o \rtimes > \divideontimes
d \doublecup e \doublecap r \smallsetminus
Y \veebar Z \barwedge [ \doublebarwedge
\boxplus \boxminus \circleddash
\boxtimes \boxdot } \circledcirc
| \intercal ~ \circledast i \rightthreetimes
g \curlyvee f \curlywedge h \leftthreetimes
Table 3.16: AMS Binary Relations.
l \lessdot m \gtrdot + \doteqdot

6 \leqslant > \geqslant : \risingdotseq
0 \eqslantless 1 \eqslantgtr ; \fallingdotseq
5 \leqq = \geqq P \eqcirc
\lll or \llless \ggg $ \circeq
. \lesssim & \gtrsim , \triangleq
/ \lessapprox ' \gtrapprox l \bumpeq
\lessgtr \gtrless m \Bumpeq
Q \lesseqgtr R \gtreqless \thicksim
S \lesseqqgtr T \gtreqqless \thickapprox
4 \preccurlyeq < \succcurlyeq u \approxeq
2 \curlyeqprec 3 \curlyeqsucc v \backsim
- \precsim % \succsim w \backsimeq
w \precapprox v \succapprox \vDash
j \subseteqq k \supseteqq \Vdash
q \shortparallel c \Supset \Vvdash
J \blacktriangleleft A \sqsupset \backepsilon
B \vartriangleright \because \varpropto
I \blacktriangleright b \Subset G \between
D \trianglerighteq a \smallfrown t \pitchfork
C \vartriangleleft p \shortmid ` \smallsmile
E \trianglelefteq \therefore @ \sqsubset
Table 3.17: AMS Arrows.
L99 \dashleftarrow 99K \dashrightarrow

\leftleftarrows \rightrightarrows
\leftrightarrows \rightleftarrows
W \Lleftarrow V \Rrightarrow
\twoheadleftarrow \twoheadrightarrow
\leftarrowtail \rightarrowtail
\leftrightharpoons
\rightleftharpoons
\Lsh \Rsh
" \looparrowleft # \looparrowright
x \curvearrowleft y \curvearrowright
\circlearrowleft \circlearrowright
( \multimap \upuparrows
\downdownarrows \upharpoonleft
\upharpoonright \downharpoonright
\rightsquigarrow ! \leftrightsquigarrow
Table 3.18: AMS Negated Binary Relations and Arrows.
\nless \ngtr & \varsubsetneqq

\lneq \gneq ' \varsupsetneqq
\nleq \ngeq " \nsubseteqq

\nleqslant \ngeqslant # \nsupseteqq
\lneqq \gneqq - \nmid
\lvertneqq \gvertneqq \nparallel
\nleqq \ngeqq . \nshortmid
\lnsim \gnsim / \nshortparallel
\lnapprox \gnapprox \nsim
\nprec \nsucc \ncong
\npreceq \nsucceq 0 \nvdash
\precneqq \succneqq 2 \nvDash
\precnsim \succnsim 1 \nVdash
\precnapprox \succnapprox 3 \nVDash
( \subsetneq ) \supsetneq 6 \ntriangleleft
\varsubsetneq ! \varsupsetneq 7 \ntriangleright
* \nsubseteq + \nsupseteq 5 \ntrianglelefteq
$ \subsetneqq % \supsetneqq 4 \ntrianglerighteq
8 \nleftarrow 9 \nrightarrow = \nleftrightarrow
: \nLeftarrow ; \nRightarrow < \nLeftrightarrow
Table 3.19: AMS Miscellaneous.
~ \hbar } \hslash k \Bbbk

\square \blacksquare s \circledS
M \vartriangle N \blacktriangle { \complement
O \triangledown H \blacktriangledown a \Game
\lozenge \blacklozenge F \bigstar
\angle ] \measuredangle
\diagup \diagdown 8 \backprime
@ \nexists ` \Finv \varnothing
\eth ^ \sphericalangle f \mho
Chapter 4
Specialities
When putting together a large document, LATEX will help with some special
features like index generation, bibliography management, and other things. A
much more complete description of specialities and enhancements possible with
LATEX can be found in the LATEX Manual [1] and The LATEX Companion [3].
4.1 Including Encapsulated PostScript

LATEX provides the basic facilities to work with floating bodies, such as
images or graphics, with the figure and table environments.
There are several ways to generate the actual graphics with basic LATEX
or a LATEX extension package, a few of them are described in chapter 5.
Please refer to The LATEX Companion [3] and the LATEX Manual [1] for more
information on that subject.
A much easier way to get graphics into a document is to generate them
with a specialised software package1 and then include the finished graphics
in the document. Here again, LATEX packages offer many ways to do this,
but this introduction will only discuss the use of Encapsulated PostScript
(EPS) graphics, because it is quite easy to do and widely used. In order
to use pictures in the EPS format, you must have a PostScript printer2
available for output.
A good set of commands for inclusion of graphics is provided in the
graphicx package by D. P. Carlisle. It is part of a whole family of packages
called the graphics bundle.3
When working on a system with a PostScript printer available for
output and with the graphicx package installed, use the following step by
1
Such as XFig, Gnuplot, Gimp, Xara X . . .
2
Another possibility to output PostScript is the GhostScript program available
from CTAN://support/ghostscript. Windows and OS/2 users might want to look for
GSview.
3
CTAN://pkg/graphics
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step guide to include a picture into your document:
1. Export the picture from your graphics program in EPS format.4
2. Load the graphicx package in the preamble of the input file with
\usepackage[driver]{graphicx}
where driver is the name of your dvi to PostScript converter

program. The most widely used program is called dvips. The name of
the driver is required, because there is no standard on how graphics
are included in TEX. Knowing the name of the driver, the graphicx
package can choose the correct method to insert information about the
graphics into the .dvi file, so that the printer understands it and can
correctly include the .eps file.
3. Use the command
\includegraphics[key=value, . . . ]{file}
to include file into your document. The optional parameter accepts a

comma separated list of keys and associated values. The keys can be
used to alter the width, height and rotation of the included graphic.
Table 4.1 lists the most important keys.
Table 4.1: Key Names for graphicx Package.
width scale graphic to the specified width

height scale graphic to the specified height
angle rotate graphic counterclockwise
scale scale graphic
4
If your software cannot export into EPS format, you can try to install a PostScript
printer driver (such as an Apple LaserWriter, for example) and then print to a file with
this driver. With some luck this file will be in EPS format. Note that an EPS must not
contain more than one page. Some printer drivers can be explicitly configured to produce
EPS format.
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The following example code may help to clarify things:

\begin{figure}
\centering
\includegraphics[angle=90,
width=0.5\textwidth]{test}
\caption{This is a test.}
\end{figure}
It includes the graphic stored in the file test.eps. The graphic is first
rotated by an angle of 90 degrees and then scaled to the final width of 0.5
times the width of a standard paragraph. The aspect ratio is 1.0, because
no special height is specified. The width and height parameters can also be
specified in absolute dimensions. Refer to Table 6.5 on page 130 for more
information. If you want to know more about this topic, make sure to read
[9] and [13].
4.2 Bibliography
Produce a bibliography with the thebibliography environment. Each entry
starts with
\bibitem[label]{marker}
The marker is then used to cite the book, article or paper within the
document.
\cite{marker}
If you do not use the label option, the entries will get enumerated auto-
matically. The parameter after the \begin{thebibliography} command
defines how much space to reserve for the number of labels. In the example
below, {99} tells LATEX to expect that none of the bibliography item numbers
will be wider than the number 99.
Partl [1] has proposed that . . .
Partl~\cite{pa} has
proposed that \ldots
\begin{thebibliography}{99}
\bibitem{pa} H.~Partl:
\emph{German \TeX},
TUGboat Volume~9, Issue~1 (1988)
Bibliography
\end{thebibliography}
[1] H. Partl: German TEX, TUGboat

Volume 9, Issue 1 (1988)
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For larger projects, you might want to check out the BibTEX program.
BibTEX is included with most TEX distributions. It allows you to maintain
a bibliographic database and then extract the references relevant to things
you cited in your paper. The visual presentation of BibTEX-generated
bibliographies is based on a style-sheets concept that allows you to create
bibliographies following a wide range of established designs.
4.3 Indexing
A very useful feature of many books is their index. With LATEX and the
support program makeindex,5 an index can be generated quite easily. This
introduction will only explain the basic index generation commands. For a
more in-depth view, please refer to The LATEX Companion [3].
To enable their indexing feature of LATEX, the makeidx package must be
loaded in the preamble with
\usepackage{makeidx}
and the special indexing commands must be enabled by putting the
\makeindex
command in the preamble.

The content of the index is specified with
\index{key@formatted_entry}
commands, where formatted_entry will appear in the index and key will be
used for sorting. The formatted_entry is optional. If it is missing the key
will be used. You enter the index commands at the points in the text that
you want the final index entries to point to. Table 4.2 explains the syntax
with several examples.
When the input file is processed with LATEX, each \index command
writes an appropriate index entry, together with the current page number,
to a special file. The file has the same name as the LATEX input file, but a
different extension (.idx). This .idx file can then be processed with the
makeindex program:
makeindex filename
The makeindex program generates a sorted index with the same base file
name, but this time with the extension .ind. If now the LATEX input file is
5
On systems not necessarily supporting filenames longer than 8 characters, the program
may be called makeidx.
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Table 4.2: Index Key Syntax Examples.
Example Index Entry Comment

\index{hello} hello, 1 Plain entry
\index{hello!Peter} Peter, 3 Subentry under hello
\index{Sam@\textsl{Sam}} Sam, 2 Formatted entry
\index{Lin@\textbf{Lin}} Lin, 7 Formatted entry
\index{Kaese@K\"ase} Kse, 33 Formatted entry
\index{ecole@\ecole} cole, 4 Formatted entry
\index{Jenny|textbf} Jenny, 3 Formatted page number
\index{Joe|textit} Joe, 5 Formatted page number
processed again, this sorted index gets included into the document at the
point where LATEX finds
\printindex
The showidx package that comes with LATEX 2 prints out all index entries
in the left margin of the text. This is quite useful for proofreading a document
and verifying the index.
Note that the \index command can affect your layout if not used carefully.
My Word \index{Word}. As opposed

My Word . As opposed to Word. Note the
to Word\index{Word}. Note the
position of the full stop.
position of the full stop.
makeindex has no clue about characters outside the ASCII range. To

get the sorting correct, use the @ character as shown in the Kse and cole
examples above.
4.4 Fancy Headers

The fancyhdr package,6 written by Piet van Oostrum, provides a few simple
commands that allow you to customize the header and footer lines of your
document. Look at the top of this page, for an application of this package.
The tricky problem when customising headers and footers is to get things
like running section and chapter names in there. LATEX accomplishes this
with a two-stage approach. In the header and footer definition, you use
the commands \rightmark and \leftmark to represent the current section
6
Available from CTAN://macros/latex/contrib/supported/fancyhdr.
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\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
% with this we ensure that the chapter and section
% headings are in lowercase.
\renewcommand{\chaptermark}[1]{%
\markboth{#1}{}}
\renewcommand{\sectionmark}[1]{%
\markright{\thesection\ #1}}
\fancyhf{} % delete current header and footer
\fancyhead[LE,RO]{\bfseries\thepage}
\fancyhead[LO]{\bfseries\rightmark}
\fancyhead[RE]{\bfseries\leftmark}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0.5pt}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt}
\addtolength{\headheight}{0.5pt} % space for the rule
\fancypagestyle{plain}{%
\fancyhead{} % get rid of headers on plain pages
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt} % and the line
}
Figure 4.1: Example fancyhdr Setup.

4.5 The Verbatim Package 89
and chapter heading, respectively. The values of these two commands are
overwritten whenever a chapter or section command is processed.
For ultimate flexibility, the \chapter command and its friends do not
redefine \rightmark and \leftmark themselves. They call yet another
command (\chaptermark, \sectionmark, or \subsectionmark) that is re-
sponsible for redefining \rightmark and \leftmark.
If you want to change the look of the chapter name in the header line,
you need only renew the \chaptermark command.
Figure 4.1 shows a possible setup for the fancyhdr package that makes
the headers look about the same as they look in this booklet. In any case, I
suggest you fetch the documentation for the package at the address mentioned
in the footnote.
4.5 The Verbatim Package

Earlier in this book, you got to know the verbatim environment. In this
section, you are going to learn about the verbatim package. The verbatim
package is basically a re-implementation of the verbatim environment that
works around some of the limitations of the original verbatim environment.
This by itself is not spectacular, but the implementation of the verbatim
package added new functionality, which is why I am mentioning the package
here. The verbatim package provides the
\verbatiminput{filename}
command, which allows you to include raw ASCII text into your document
as if it were inside a verbatim environment.
As the verbatim package is part of the tools bundle, you should find it
pre-installed on most systems. If you want to know more about this package,
make sure to read [10].
4.6 Installing Extra Packages

Most LATEX installations come with a large set of pre-installed style packages,
but many more are available on the net. The main place to look for style
packages on the Internet is CTAN (http://www.ctan.org/).
Packages such as geometry, hyphenat, and many others are typically made
up of two files: a file with the extension .ins and another with the extension
.dtx. There will often be a readme.txt with a brief description of the
package. You should of course read this file first.
In any event, once you have copied the package files onto your machine,
you still have to process them in a way that (a) tells your TEX distribution
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about the new style package and (b) gives you the documentation. Heres
how you do the first part:
1. Run LATEX on the .ins file. This will extract a .sty file.
2. Move the .sty file to a place where your distribution can find it. Usually
this is in your .../localtexmf /tex/latex subdirectory (Windows or
OS/2 users should feel free to change the direction of the slashes).
3. Refresh your distributions file-name database. The command de-

pends on the LATEXdistribution you use: TEXlive texhash; web2c
maktexlsr; MiKTEX initexmf --update-fndb or use the GUI.
Now extract the documentation from the .dtx file:
1. Run LATEX on the .dtx file. This will generate a .dvi file. Note that you
may have to run LATEX several times before it gets the cross-references
right.
2. Check to see if LATEX has produced a .idx file among the various files
you now have. If you do not see this file, then the documentation has
no index. Continue with step 5.
3. In order to generate the index, type the following:

makeindex -s gind.ist name
(where name stands for the main-file name without any extension).
4. Run LATEX on the .dtx file once again.
5. Last but not least, make a .ps or .pdf file to increase your reading
pleasure.
Sometimes you will see that a .glo (glossary) file has been produced.
Run the following command between step 4 and 5:
makeindex -s gglo.ist -o name.gls name.glo
Be sure to run LATEX on the .dtx one last time before moving on to step 5.
4.7 Working with pdf LATEX

PDF is a portable hypertext document format. Much as in a web page,

some words in the document are marked as hyperlinks. They link to other
places in the document or even to other documents. If you click on such a
hyperlink you get transported to the destination of the link. In the context
of LATEX, this means that all occurrences of \ref and \pageref become
hyperlinks. Additionally, the table of contents, the index and all the other
similar structures become collections of hyperlinks.
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Most web pages you find today are written in HTML (HyperText Markup
Language). This format has two significant disadvantages when writing
scientific documents:
1. Including mathematical formulae into HTML documents is not gener-
ally supported. While there is a standard for it, most browsers used
today do not support it, or lack the required fonts.
2. Printing HTML documents is possible, but the results vary widely

between platforms and browsers. The results are miles removed from
the quality we have come to expect in the LATEX world.
There have been many attempts to create translators from LATEX to
HTML. Some were even quite successful in the sense that they are able
to produce legible web pages from a standard LATEX input file. But all of
them cut corners left and right to get the job done. As soon as you start
using more complex LATEX features and external packages things tend to
fall apart. Authors wishing to preserve the unique typographic quality of
their documents even when publishing on the web turn to PDF (Portable
Document Format), which preserves the layout of the document and permits
hypertext navigation. Most modern browsers come with plugins that allow
the direct display of PDF documents.
Even though there are DVI and PS viewers for almost every platform,
you will find that Acrobat Reader and Xpdf for viewing PDF documents are
more widely deployed7 . So providing PDF versions of your documents will
make them much more accessible to your potential readers.
4.7.1 PDF Documents for the Web

The creation of a PDF file from LATEX source is very simple, thanks to the
pdfTEX program developed by Hn Th Thnh. pdfTEX produces PDF
output where normal TEX produces DVI. There is also a pdfLATEX, which
produces PDF output from LATEX sources.
Both pdfTEX and pdfLATEX are installed automatically by most modern
TEX distributions, such as teTEX, fpTEX, MikTEX, TEXLive and CMacTEX.
To produce a PDF instead of DVI, it is sufficient to replace the command
latex file.tex by pdflatex file.tex. On systems where LATEX is not
called from the command line, you may find a special button in the TEX
GUI.
Set the paper size with an optional documentclass argument such as
a4paper or letterpaper. This works in pdfLATEX too, but on top of this
pdfTEX also needs to know the physical size of the paper to determine the
physical size of the pages in the pdf file. If you use the hyperref package (see
page 93), the papersize will be adjusted automatically. Otherwise you have
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http://pdfreaders.org
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to do this manually by putting the following lines into the preamble of the
document:
\pdfpagewidth=\paperwidth
\pdfpageheight=\paperheight
The following section will go into more detail regarding the differences
between normal LATEX and pdfLATEX. The main differences concern three
areas: the fonts to use, the format of images to include, and the manual
configuration of hyperlinks.
4.7.2 The Fonts

pdfLATEX can deal with all sorts of fonts (PK bitmaps, TrueType, PostScript
type 1. . . ) but the normal LATEX font format, the bitmap PK fonts produce
very ugly results when the document is displayed with Acrobat Reader. It is
best to use PostScript Type 1 fonts exclusively to produce documents that
display well. Modern TeX installations will be set up so that this happens
automatically. Best is to try. If it works for you, just skip this whole section.
The Type 1 font set most widely used today is called Latin Modern (LM).
If you have a recent TEX installation, chances are that you already have a
copy of them installed; all you need to do is to add
\usepackage{lmodern}
to the preamble of your document and you are all set for creating excellent
PDF output with full support for the full Latin character set. If you are
working with a stripped down setup, you may have to add the lm fonts
explicitly.
For the Russian language you may want to use C1 virtual fonts, available
at ftp://ftp.vsu.ru/pub/tex/font-packs/c1fonts. These fonts com-
bine the standard CM type 1 fonts from Bluesky collection and CMCYR
type 1 fonts from the Paradissa and BaKoMa collection, all available on
CTAN. Because Paradissa fonts contain only Russian letters, C1 fonts are
missing other Cyrillic glyphs.
Another solution is to switch to other PostScript type 1 fonts. Actually,
some of them are even included with every copy of Acrobat Reader. Because
these fonts have different character sizes, the text layout on your pages will
change. Generally these other fonts will use more space than the CM fonts,
which are very space-efficient. Also, the overall visual coherence of your
document will suffer because Times, Helvetica and Courier (the primary
candidates for such a replacement job) have not been designed to work in
harmony in a single document.
Two ready-made font sets are available for this purpose: pxfonts, which is
based on Palatino as its main text body font, and the txfonts package, which
is based on Times. To use them it is sufficient to put the following lines into
the preamble of your document:
\usepackage{pxfonts}
You may find lines like
Warning: pdftex (file eurmo10): Font eur... not found
in the .log file after compiling your input file. They mean that some font
used in the document has not been found. Make sure you identify and fix
the offending parts of your document, as the resulting PDF document may
not display the pages with the missing characters at all.
4.7.3 Using Graphics

Including graphics into a document works best with the graphicx package
(see page 83):
\usepackage{xcolor,graphicx}
In the sample above I have included the color package, as using color in
documents displayed on the web comes quite naturally.
So much for the good news. The bad news is that graphics in Encapsulated
PostScript format do not work with pdfLATEX. If you dont define a file
extension in the \includegraphics command, graphicx will go looking for a
suitable file on its own, depending on the setting of the driver option. For
pdftex this is formats .png, .pdf, .jpg and .mps (METAPOST)but not
.eps.
The simple way out of this problem is to just convert your EPS files into
PDF format using the epstopdf utility found on many systems. For vector
graphics (drawings) this is a great solution. For bitmaps (photos, scans) this
is not ideal, because the PDF format natively supports the inclusion of PNG
and JPEG images. PNG is good for screenshots and other images with few
colours. JPEG is great for photos, as it is very space-efficient.
It may even be desirable not to draw certain geometric figures, but rather
describe the figure with a specialized command language, such as META-
POST, which can be found in most TEX distributions, and comes with its
own extensive manual.
4.7.4 Hypertext Links

The hyperref package will take care of turning all internal references of your
document into hyperlinks. For this to work properly some magic is necessary,
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so you have to put \usepackage[pdftex]{hyperref} as the last command

into the preamble of your document.
Many options are available to customize the behaviour of the hyperref
package:
either as a comma separated list after the pdftex option

\usepackage[pdftex]{hyperref}
or on individual lines with the command \hypersetup{options}.
The only required option is pdftex; the others are optional and allow
you to change the default behaviour of hyperref.8 In the following list the
default values are written in an upright font.
bookmarks (=true,false ) show or hide the bookmarks bar when

displaying the document
unicode (=false,true ) allows the use of characters of non-Latin based

languages in Acrobats bookmarks
pdftoolbar (=true,false ) show or hide Acrobats toolbar
pdfmenubar (=true,false ) show or hide Acrobats menu
pdffitwindow (=false,true ) adjust the initial magnification of the PDF

when displayed
pdftitle (={text}) define the title that gets displayed in the Document
Info window of Acrobat
pdfauthor (={text}) the name of the PDFs author
pdfnewwindow (=false,true ) define whether a new window should be

opened when a link leads out of the current document
colorlinks (=false,true ) surround the links by colour frames (false)

or colour the text of the links (true). The colour of these links can be
configured using the following options (default colours are shown):
linkcolor (=red) colour of internal links (sections, pages, etc.)

citecolor (=green) colour of citation links (bibliography)
filecolor (=magenta) colour of file links
urlcolor (=cyan) colour of URL links (mail, web)
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It is worth noting that the hyperref package is not limited to work with pdfTEX. It
can also be configured to embed PDF-specific information into the DVI output of normal
LATEX, which then gets put into the PS file by dvips and is finally picked up by the pdf
convertor when turning the PS file into PDF.
If you are happy with the defaults, use
\usepackage[pdftex]{hyperref}
To have the bookmark list open and links in colour (the =true values
are optional):
\usepackage[pdftex,bookmarks,colorlinks]{hyperref}
When creating PDFs destined for printing, coloured links are not a good
thing as they end up in gray in the final output, making it difficult to read.
Use colour frames, which are not printed:
\usepackage{hyperref}
\hypersetup{colorlinks=false}
or make links black:
\usepackage{hyperref}
\hypersetup{colorlinks,%
citecolor=black,%
filecolor=black,%
linkcolor=black,%
urlcolor=black,%
pdftex}
When you just want to provide information for the Document Info
section of the PDF file:
\usepackage[pdfauthor={Pierre Desproges},%
pdftitle={Des femmes qui tombent},%
pdftex]{hyperref}
In addition to the automatic hyperlinks for cross references, it is possible

to embed explicit links using
\href{url}{text}
The code
The \href{http://www.ctan.org}{CTAN} website.
produces the output CTAN; a click on the word CTAN will take you to
the CTAN website.
If the destination of the link is not a URL but a local file, use the \href
command without the http:// bit:
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which produces the text The complete document is here. A click on the
word here will open the file manual.pdf. (The filename is relative to the
location of the current document).
The author of an article might want her readers to easily send email
messages by using the \href command inside the \author command on the
title page of the document:
\author{Mary Oetiker $<$\href{mailto:[email protected]}%

{[email protected]}$>$
Note that I have put the link so that my email address appears not only in
the link but also on the page itself. I did this because the link
\href{mailto:[email protected]}{Mary Oetiker}
would work well within Acrobat, but once the page is printed the email
address would not be visible anymore.
4.7.5 Problems with Links

Messages like the following:
! pdfTeX warning (ext4): destination with the same

identifier (name{page.1}) has been already used,
duplicate ignored
appear when a counter gets reinitialized, for example by using the command
\mainmatter provided by the book document class. It resets the page number
counter to 1 prior to the first chapter of the book. But as the preface of the
book also has a page number 1 all links to page 1 would not be unique
anymore, hence the notice that duplicate has been ignored.
The counter measure consists of putting plainpages=false into the
hyperref options. This unfortunately only helps with the page counter. An
even more radical solution is to use the option
hypertexnames=false, but this will cause the page links in the index to
stop working.
4.7.6 Problems with Bookmarks

The text displayed by bookmarks does not always look like you expect it to
look. Because bookmarks are just text, fewer characters are available for
bookmarks than for normal LATEX text. Hyperref will normally notice such
problems and put up a warning:
Package hyperref Warning:

Token not allowed in a PDFDocEncoded string:
Work around this problem by providing a text string for the bookmarks,
which replaces the offending text:
\texorpdfstring{TEX text}{Bookmark Text}
Math expressions are a prime candidate for this kind of problem:
\section{\texorpdfstring{$E=mc^2$}%
{E = mc ** 2}}
which turns \section{$E=mc^2$} to E = mc ** 2 in the bookmark area.

If you write your document in Unicode and use the unicode option for
the hyperref package to use Unicode characters in bookmarks, this will give
you a much larger selection of characters to pick from when when using
\texorpdfstring.
4.7.7 Source Compatibility Between LATEX and pdf LATEX

Ideally your document would compile equally well with LATEX and pdfLATEX.
The main problem in this respect is the inclusion of graphics. The simple
solution is to systematically drop the file extension from \includegraphics
commands. They will then automatically look for a file of a suitable format
in the current directory. All you have to do is create appropriate versions of
the graphics files. LATEX will look for .eps, and pdfLATEX will try to include
a file with the extension .png, .pdf, .jpg or .mps (in that order).
For the cases where you want to use different code for the PDF version
of your document, simply add the package ifpdf 9 to your preamble. Chances
are that you already have it installed; if not then youre probably using
MiKTEX which will install it for you automatically the first time you try to
use it. This package defines the special command \ifpdf that will allow you
to write conditional code easily. In this example, we want the PostScript
version to be black and white due to the printing costs but we want the PDF
version for online viewing to be colourful.
\RequirePackage{ifpdf} % are we producing PDF ?

\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{book}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage[bookmarks, % tune hyperref
colorlinks,
plainpages=false]{hyperref}
\usepackage{graphicx}
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If you want the whole story on why to use this package then go to the TEX FAQ under
the item http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=ifpdf.
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\ifpdf
\hypersetup{linkscolor=blue}
\else
\hypersetup{linkscolors=black}
\fi
\usepackage[english]{babel}
...
In the example above I have included the hyperref package even in the
non-PDF version. The effect of this is to make the \href command work in
all cases, which saves me from wrapping every occurrence into a conditional
statement.
Note that in recent TEX distributions (like TEXLive, MacTEX and
MiKTEX), the normal TEX program is actually pdfTEX and it will au-
tomatically switch between producing pdf and dvi according to the name it
is called with: use the pdflatex command to get pdf output and latex for
normal dvi output.
4.8 Working with XELATEX

By Axel Kielhorn <[email protected]>
Most of the things said about pdfLATEX are valid for XELATEX as well.
There is a Wiki at http://wiki.xelatex.org/doku.php that collects
information relevant to XETEX and XELATEX.
4.8.1 The Fonts

In addition to the normal tfm based fonts, XELATEX is able to use any font
known to the operating system. If you have the Linux Libertine fonts
installed, you can simply say
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont[Ligatures=TeX]{Linux Libertine}
in the preamble. This will normally detect the italic and bold versions as
well, so \textit and \textbf will work as usual. When the font is using
OpenType technology you have access to many features which required
switching to a separate font or using virtual fonts in the past. The main
feature is the extended character set; a font may contain Latin, Greek and
Cyrillic characters and the corresponding ligatures.
Many fonts contain at least two kinds of numerals, the normal lining
numerals and so called old style (or lower case) numerals, which partly extend
below the baseline. They may contain proportional numerals (the 1 takes
less space than the 0) or monospaced numerals which are suitable for
tables.
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\newfontfamily\LLln[Numbers=Lining]{(font)}
\newfontfamily\LLos[Numbers=OldStyle]{(font)}
\newfontfamily\LLlnm[Numbers=Lining,Numbers=Monospaced]{(font)}
\newfontfamily\LLosm[Numbers=OldStyle,Numbers=Monospaced]{(font)}
Almost all OpenType fonts contain the standard ligatures (fl fi ffi) but
there are also some rare or historical ligatures like st, ct and tz. You may
not want to use them in a technical report but they are fine for a novel. To
enable these ligatures use either of the following lines:
\setmainfont[Ligatures=Rare]{(font)}
\setmainfont[Ligatures=Historic]{(font)}
\setmainfont[Ligatures=Historic,Ligatures=Rare]{(font)}
Not every font contains both sets of ligature, consult the font documen-
tation or just try it out. Sometimes these ligatures are language dependent;
for example a ligature used in Polish (fk) is not used in English. You have
to add
\setmainfont[Language=Polish]{(font)}
to enable the Polish ligatures.

Some fonts (like the commercial Adobe Garamond Premier Pro) contain
alternative glyphs that are activated by default in XELATEX distributed with
TEXLive 201010 . The result is a stylish Q with a descender reaching below
the following u. To disable this feature you have to define the font with
disabled contextuals:
\setmainfont[Contextuals=NoAlternate]{(font)}
To learn about fonts in XELATEX read the fontspec manual.
Where do I get OpenType fonts?

If you have TeXLive installed, you already have some at .../texmf-dist/
fonts/opentype, just install them in your operating system. This collection
does not include DejaVu, which is available at http://dejavu-fonts.org/.
Make sure that each font is only installed once, otherwise interesting
results may happen.
You can use every font installed on your computer, but remember that
other users may not have these fonts. The Zapfino font used in the fontspec
manual is included in Mac OSX, but is not available on Windows computers.11
10
The behavior has changed with this version, it was off by default in earlier releases.
11
A commercial version of the font called Zapfino Extra is available.
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Entering Unicode Characters

The number of characters in a font has grown but the number of keys on a
regular keyboard has not. So, how do I enter non-ASCII characters?
If you write a large amount of text in a foreign language, you can install
a keyboard for that language and print out the character positions. (Most
operatings system have some sort of virtual keyboard, just make a screenshot.)
If you rarely need an exotic character, you can simply pick it in the
character palette.
Some environments (e. g. the X Window System) offer many methods to
enter non-ASCII characters. Some editors (e. g. Vim and Emacs) offer ways
to enter these characters. Read the manual for the tools you are using.
4.8.2 Compatibility Between XELATEX and pdfLATEX

There are a few things that are different between XELATEX and pdfLATEX.
A XELATEX document has to be written in Unicode (UTF-8) while

pdfLATEX may use different input encodings.
The microtype packages does not work with XELATEX yet, support for
character protrusion is already under development.
Everything font related has to be reviewed. (Unless you want to stick

to Latin Modern.)
4.9 Creating Presentations

You can present the results of your scientific work on a blackboard, with
transparencies, or directly from your laptop using some presentation software.
pdfLATEX combined with the beamer class allows you to create presenta-
tions in PDF, looking much like something you might be able to generate
with LibreOffice or PowerPoint if you had a very good day, but much more
portable because PDF readers are available on many more systems.
The beamer class uses graphicx, color and hyperref with options adapted
to screen presentations.
When you compile the code presented in figure 4.2 with pdfLATEX you
get a PDF file with a title page and a second page showing several items
that will be revealed one at a time as you step though your presentation.
One of the advantages of the beamer class is that it produces a PDF
file that is directly usable without first going through a PostScript stage
like prosper or requiring additional post processing like presentations created
with the ppower4 package.
4.9 Creating Presentations 101
\documentclass[10pt]{beamer}
\mode<beamer>{%
\usetheme[hideothersubsections,
right,width=22mm]{Goettingen}
}
\title{Simple Presentation}
\author[D. Flipo]{Daniel Flipo}
\institute{U.S.T.L. \& GUTenberg}
\titlegraphic{\includegraphics[width=20mm]{USTL}}
\date{2005}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}<handout:0>
\titlepage
\end{frame}
\section{An Example}
\begin{frame}
\frametitle{Things to do on a Sunday Afternoon}
\begin{block}{One could \ldots}
\begin{itemize}
\item walk the dog\dots \pause
\item read a book\pause
\item confuse a cat\pause
\end{itemize}
\end{block}
and many other things
\end{frame}
\end{document}
Figure 4.2: Sample code for the beamer class

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With the beamer class you can produce several versions (modes) of your
document from the same input file. The input file may contain special
instructions for the different modes in angular brackets. The following modes
are available:
beamer for the presentation PDF discussed above.
trans for transparencies.
handout for the printed version.
The default mode is beamer, change it by setting a different mode as a
global option, like \documentclass[10pt,handout]{beamer} to print the
handouts for example.
The look of the screen presentation depends on the theme you choose.
Pick one of the themes shipped with the beamer class or create your own.
See the beamer class documentation in beameruserguide.pdf for more
information on this.
Lets have a closer look at the code in figure 4.2.
For the screen version of the presentation \mode<beamer> we have chosen
the Goettingen theme to show a navigation panel integrated into the table
of contents. The options allow us to choose the size of the panel (22 mm in
this case) and its position (on the right side of the body text). The option
hideothersubsections, shows the chapter titles, but only the subsections of
the present chapter. There are no special settings for \mode<trans> and
\mode<handout>. They appear in their standard layout.
The commands \title{}, \author{}, \institute{}, and
\titlegraphic{} set the content of the title page. The optional arguments
of \title[]{} and \author[]{} let you specify a special version of the title
and the author name to be displayed on the panel of the Goettingen theme.
The titles and subtitles in the panel are created with normal \section{}
and \subsection{} commands that you place outside the frame environ-
ment.
The tiny navigation icons at the bottom of the screen also allow to
navigate the document. Their presence is not dependent on the theme you
choose.
The contents of each slide or screen has to be placed inside a frame
environment. There is an optional argument in angular brackets (< and
>), it allows us to suppress a particular frame in one of the versions of the
presentation. In the example the first page would not be shown in the
handout version due to the <handout:0> argument.
It is highly recommended to set a title for each slide apart from the
title slide. This is done with the command \frametitle{}. If a subtitle is
necessary use the block environment as shown in the example. Note that
the sectioning commands \section{} and \subsection{} do not produce
output on the slide proper.
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The command \pause in the itemize environment lets you reveal the
items one by one. For other presentation effects check out the commands
\only, \uncover, \alt and \temporal. In many place it is possible to use
angular brackets to further customize the presentation.
In any case make sure to read through the beamer class documentation
beameruserguide.pdf to get a complete picture of what is in store for you.
This package is being actively developed, check out their website to get the
latest information. (http://latex-beamer.sourceforge.net/)
Chapter 5
Producing Mathematical
Graphics
Most people use LATEX for typesetting their text. And since the structure oriented
approach to authoring is so convenient, LATEX also offers a, if somewhat restricted,
means for producing graphical output from textual descriptions. Furthermore,
quite a number of LATEX extensions have been created in order to overcome
these restrictions. In this section, you will learn about a few of them.
5.1 Overview
Creating graphical output with LATEX has a long tradition. It started out
with the picture environment which allows you to create graphics by cleverly
placing predefined elements onto the canvas. A complete description can
be found in the LATEX Manual [1]. The picture environment of LATEX 2
brings with it the \qbezier command, q meaning quadratic. Many
frequently used curves such as circles, ellipses, or catenaries can be satisfac-
torily approximated by quadratic Bzier curves, although this may require
some mathematical toil. If, in addition, a programming language is used
to generate \qbezier blocks of LATEX input files, the picture environment
becomes quite powerful.
Although programming pictures directly in LATEX is severely restricted,
and often rather tiresome, there are still reasons for doing so. The documents
thus produced are small with respect to bytes, and there are no additional
graphics files to be dragged along.
This has been the state of things until a few years ago when Till Tantau
of beamer fame came up with the Portable Graphics Format pgf and its
companion package TikZ (tikz). This system lets you create high quality
vector graphics with all current TEX systems including full support for pdf.
Building on these basics, numerous packages have been written for specific
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purposes. A wide variety of these packages is described in detail in The

LATEX Graphics Companion [4].
Perhaps the most advanced graphical tool related with LATEX is META-
POST. It is a stand-alone application based on Donald E. Knuths META-
FONT. METAPOST has the very powerful and mathematically sophisticated
programming language of METAFONT but contrary to METAFONT, it gener-
ates encapsulated PostScript files, which can be imported in LATEX and even
pdfLATEX. For an introduction, see A Users Manual for METAPOST [15],
or the tutorial on [17].
A very thorough discussion of LATEX and TEX strategies for graphics
(and fonts) can be found in TEX Unbound [16].
5.2 The picture Environment

By Urs Oswald <[email protected]>
As mentioned above the picture environment is part of standard LATEX

and it is great for simple tasks and also if you want to control the exact
positioning of individual elements on a page. But if you are about to do any
serious graphics work, you should look at TikZ as presented in section 5.3
on page 115.
5.2.1 Basic Commands

A picture environment1 is created with one of the two commands
\begin{picture}(x, y). . . \end{picture}
or
\begin{picture}(x, y)(x0 , y0 ). . . \end{picture}
The numbers x, y, x0 , y0 refer to \unitlength, which can be reset any

time (but not within a picture environment) with a command such as
\setlength{\unitlength}{1.2cm}
The default value of \unitlength is 1pt. The first pair, (x, y), effects the
reservation, within the document, of rectangular space for the picture. The
optional second pair, (x0 , y0 ), assigns arbitrary coordinates to the bottom
left corner of the reserved rectangle.
1
Believe it or not, the picture environment works out of the box, with standard LATEX 2
no package loading necessary.
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Most drawing commands have one of the two forms
\put(x, y){object}
or
\multiput(x, y)(x, y){n}{object}
Bzier curves are an exception. They are drawn with the command
\qbezier(x1 , y1 )(x2 , y2 )(x3 , y3 )
5.2.2 Line Segments
\setlength{\unitlength}{5cm}
\begin{picture}(1,1)
\put(0,0){\line(0,1){1}}
\put(0,0){\line(1,0){1}}
\put(0,0){\line(1,1){1}}
\put(0,0){\line(1,2){.5}}
\put(0,0){\line(1,3){.3333}}
\put(0,0){\line(1,4){.25}}
\put(0,0){\line(1,5){.2}}

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\put(0,0){\line(1,6){.1667}}
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\put(0,0){\line(2,1){1}}
% ,
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\put(0,0){\line(2,3){.6667}}
% ,
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\put(0,0){\line(2,5){.4}}
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\put(0,0){\line(3,1){1}}
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\put(0,0){\line(5,1){1}}
\put(0,0){\line(5,2){1}}
\put(0,0){\line(5,3){1}}
\put(0,0){\line(5,4){1}}
\put(0,0){\line(5,6){.8333}}
\put(0,0){\line(6,1){1}}
\put(0,0){\line(6,5){1}}
\end{picture}
Line segments are drawn with the command
\put(x, y){\line(x1 , y1 ){length}}
The \line command has two arguments:

1. a direction vector,
2. a length.
The components of the direction vector are restricted to the integers
6, 5, . . . , 5, 6,
and they have to be coprime (no common divisor except 1). The figure
illustrates all 25 possible slope values in the first quadrant. The length is
relative to \unitlength. The length argument is the vertical coordinate in
the case of a vertical line segment, the horizontal coordinate in all other
cases.
5.2.3 Arrows
\setlength{\unitlength}{0.75mm}
\put(30,20){\vector(1,0){30}}
\put(30,20){\vector(4,1){20}}
OCC
\put(30,20){\vector(3,1){25}} *

\put(30,20){\vector(2,1){30}}
C
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\put(30,20){\vector(1,2){10}} XXXC
:

-
\thicklines
\put(30,20){\vector(-4,1){30}}
\put(30,20){\vector(-1,4){5}}
\thinlines
\put(30,20){\vector(-1,-1){5}}
\put(30,20){\vector(-1,-4){5}}
\end{picture}
Arrows are drawn with the command
\put(x, y){\vector(x1 , y1 ){length}}
For arrows, the components of the direction vector are even more narrowly
restricted than for line segments, namely to the integers
4, 3, . . . , 3, 4.
Components also have to be coprime (no common divisor except 1). Notice
the effect of the \thicklines command on the two arrows pointing to the
upper left.
5.2.4 Circles
\setlength{\unitlength}{1mm}
\begin{picture}(60, 40)
\put(20,30){\circle{1}}
\put(20,30){\circle{2}}
\put(20,30){\circle{4}}
\put(20,30){\circle{8}}
\put(20,30){\circle{16}}
\put(20,30){\circle{32}}
\put(40,30){\circle{1}}
\put(40,30){\circle{2}} '$ '$
#
\put(40,30){\circle{3}}

\put(40,30){\circle{4}} j
be m
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be

\put(40,30){\circle{5}}
"!
\put(40,30){\circle{6}} &% &%
\put(40,30){\circle{7}}
\put(40,30){\circle{8}}
\put(40,30){\circle{9}} r u x z}
\put(40,30){\circle{10}}
\put(40,30){\circle{11}}
\put(40,30){\circle{12}}
\put(40,30){\circle{13}}
\put(40,30){\circle{14}}
\put(15,10){\circle*{1}}
\put(20,10){\circle*{2}}
\put(25,10){\circle*{3}}
\put(30,10){\circle*{4}}
\put(35,10){\circle*{5}}
\end{picture}
The command
\put(x, y){\circle{diameter}}
draws a circle with center (x, y) and diameter (not radius) diameter. The
picture environment only admits diameters up to approximately 14 mm,
and even below this limit, not all diameters are possible. The \circle*
command produces disks (filled circles).
As in the case of line segments, one may have to resort to additional
packages, such as eepic or pstricks. For a thorough description of these
packages, see The LATEX Graphics Companion [4].
There is also a possibility within the picture environment. If one is not
afraid of doing the necessary calculations (or leaving them to a program),
arbitrary circles and ellipses can be patched together from quadratic Bzier
curves. See Graphics in LATEX 2 [17] for examples and Java source files.
5.2.5 Text and Formulas

\thicklines
\put(1,0.5){\line(2,1){3}}
\put(4,2){\line(-2,1){2}} p
\put(2,3){\line(-2,-5){1}} F = s(s a)(s b)(s c)
\put(0.7,0.3){$A$}
\put(4.05,1.9){$B$} CH
\put(1.7,2.95){$C$} HHa
H
\put(3.1,2.5){$a$}
HB
b
\put(1.3,1.7){$b$}
c
\put(2.5,1.05){$c$} a+b+c
\put(0.3,4){$F= A
s :=
2
\sqrt{s(s-a)(s-b)(s-c)}$}
\put(3.5,0.4){$\displaystyle
s:=\frac{a+b+c}{2}$}
\end{picture}
As this example shows, text and formulas can be written into a picture
environment with the \put command in the usual way.
5.2.6 \multiput and \linethickness

\setlength{\unitlength}{2mm}
\linethickness{0.075mm}
\multiput(0,0)(1,0){26}%
{\line(0,1){20}}
\multiput(0,0)(0,1){21}%
{\line(1,0){25}}
\multiput(0,0)(5,0){6}%
{\line(0,1){20}}
\multiput(0,0)(0,5){5}%
{\line(1,0){25}}
\multiput(5,0)(10,0){2}%
{\line(0,1){20}}
\multiput(0,5)(0,10){2}%
{\line(1,0){25}}
\end{picture}
The command
\multiput(x, y)(x, y){n}{object}
has 4 arguments: the starting point, the translation vector from one object
to the next, the number of objects, and the object to be drawn. The
\linethickness command applies to horizontal and vertical line segments,
but neither to oblique line segments, nor to circles. It does, however, apply
to quadratic Bzier curves!
5.2.7 Ovals
\multiput(0,0)(1,0){7}%
{\line(0,1){4}}
#
\multiput(0,0)(0,1){5}%
{\line(1,0){6}} #
\thicklines
\put(2,3){\oval(3,1.8)} "
# ! !

\thinlines
" !
\put(3,2){\oval(3,1.8)}
\thicklines " !
\put(2,1){\oval(3,1.8)[tl]}
\put(4,1){\oval(3,1.8)[b]}
\put(4,3){\oval(3,1.8)[r]}
\put(3,1.5){\oval(1.8,0.4)}
\end{picture}
The command
\put(x, y){\oval(w, h)}
or
\put(x, y){\oval(w, h)[position]}
produces an oval centered at (x, y) and having width w and height h. The
optional position arguments b, t, l, r refer to top, bottom, left, right,
and can be combined, as the example illustrates.
Line thickness can be controlled by two kinds of commands:
\linethickness{length} on the one hand, \thinlines and \thicklines
on the other. While \linethickness{length} applies only to horizontal and
vertical lines (and quadratic Bzier curves), \thinlines and \thicklines
apply to oblique line segments as well as to circles and ovals.
5.2.8 Multiple Use of Predefined Picture Boxes
\setlength{\unitlength}{0.5mm}
\newsavebox{\foldera}
\savebox{\foldera}
(40,32)[bl]{% definition
\multiput(0,0)(0,28){2}
{\line(1,0){40}}
\multiput(0,0)(40,0){2}
{\line(0,1){28}}

\put(1,28){\oval(2,2)[tl]}
\put(1,29){\line(1,0){5}}
\put(9,29){\oval(6,6)[tl]}
\put(9,32){\line(1,0){8}}
\put(17,29){\oval(6,6)[tr]}
\put(20,29){\line(1,0){19}}
\put(39,28){\oval(2,2)[tr]}
}
\newsavebox{\folderb}
\savebox{\folderb}
(40,32)[l]{% definition
\put(0,14){\line(1,0){8}}
\put(8,0){\usebox{\foldera}}
}
\put(34,26){\line(0,1){102}}
\put(14,128){\usebox{\foldera}}
\multiput(34,86)(0,-37){3}
{\usebox{\folderb}}
\end{picture}
A picture box can be declared by the command
\newsavebox{name}
then defined by
\savebox{name}(width,height)[position]{content}
and finally arbitrarily often be drawn by
\put(x, y){\usebox{name}}
The optional position parameter has the effect of defining the anchor
point of the savebox. In the example it is set to bl which puts the anchor
point into the bottom left corner of the savebox. The other position specifiers
are top and right.
The name argument refers to a LATEX storage bin and therefore is of a

command nature (which accounts for the backslashes in the current example).
Boxed pictures can be nested: In this example, \foldera is used within the
definition of \folderb.
The \oval command had to be used as the \line command does not
work if the segment length is less than about 3 mm.
5.2.9 Quadratic Bzier Curves

\multiput(0,0)(1,0){7}
{\line(0,1){4}}
\multiput(0,0)(0,1){5}
{\line(1,0){6}}
\thicklines
\put(0.5,0.5){\line(1,5){0.5}}

\put(1,3){\line(4,1){2}} D
\qbezier(0.5,0.5)(1,3)(3,3.5) D
\thinlines HH D
H D
\put(2.5,2){\line(2,-1){3}} HH D
\put(5.5,0.5){\line(-1,5){0.5}} HHD
\linethickness{1mm}
\qbezier(2.5,2)(5.5,0.5)(5,3)
\thinlines
\qbezier(4,2)(4,3)(3,3)
\qbezier(3,3)(2,3)(2,2)
\qbezier(2,2)(2,1)(3,1)
\qbezier(3,1)(4,1)(4,2)
\end{picture}
As this example illustrates, splitting up a circle into 4 quadratic Bzier

curves is not satisfactory. At least 8 are needed. The figure again shows the
effect of the \linethickness command on horizontal or vertical lines, and of
the \thinlines and the \thicklines commands on oblique line segments.
It also shows that both kinds of commands affect quadratic Bzier curves,
each command overriding all previous ones.
Let P1 = (x1 , y1 ), P2 = (x2 , y2 ) denote the end points, and m1 , m2 the
respective slopes, of a quadratic Bzier curve. The intermediate control point
S = (x, y) is then given by the equations

rclx = m2 x2 m1 x1 (y2 y1 )
,

m2 m1 (5.1)

y = yi + mi (x xi ) (i = 1, 2).
See Graphics in LATEX 2 [17] for a Java program which generates the neces-
sary \qbezier command line.
5.2.10 Catenary
\setlength{\unitlength}{1cm}
\begin{picture}(4.3,3.6)(-2.5,-0.25)
\put(-2,0){\vector(1,0){4.4}}
\put(2.45,-.05){$x$}
\put(0,0){\vector(0,1){3.2}}
\put(0,3.35){\makebox(0,0){$y$}}
\qbezier(0.0,0.0)(1.2384,0.0)
(2.0,2.7622)
\qbezier(0.0,0.0)(-1.2384,0.0)
(-2.0,2.7622)
\linethickness{.075mm} y
\multiput(-2,0)(1,0){5} 6
{\line(0,1){3}}
\multiput(-2,0)(0,1){4}
{\line(1,0){4}}
\linethickness{.2mm}
\put( .3,.12763){\line(1,0){.4}}
\put(.5,-.07237){\line(0,1){.4}}
\put(-.7,.12763){\line(1,0){.4}} -x
u
\put(-.5,-.07237){\line(0,1){.4}}
\put(.8,.54308){\line(1,0){.4}}
\put(1,.34308){\line(0,1){.4}}
\put(-1.2,.54308){\line(1,0){.4}}
\put(-1,.34308){\line(0,1){.4}}
\put(1.3,1.35241){\line(1,0){.4}}
\put(1.5,1.15241){\line(0,1){.4}}
\put(-1.7,1.35241){\line(1,0){.4}}
\put(-1.5,1.15241){\line(0,1){.4}}
\put(-2.5,-0.25){\circle*{0.2}}
\end{picture}
In this figure, each symmetric half of the catenary y = cosh x 1 is

approximated by a quadratic Bzier curve. The right half of the curve ends
in the point (2, 2.7622), the slope there having the value m = 3.6269. Using
again equation (5.1), we can calculate the intermediate control points. They
turn out to be (1.2384, 0) and (1.2384, 0). The crosses indicate points of
the real catenary. The error is barely noticeable, being less than one percent.
This example points out the use of the optional argument of the
\begin{picture} command. The picture is defined in convenient mathe-
matical coordinates, whereas by the command
\begin{picture}(4.3,3.6)(-2.5,-0.25)
its lower left corner (marked by the black disk) is assigned the coordinates
(2.5, 0.25).
5.3 The PGF and TikZ Graphics Packages 115
5.2.11 Rapidity in the Special Theory of Relativity
\begin{picture}(6,4)(-3,-2)
\put(-2.5,0){\vector(1,0){5}}
\put(2.7,-0.1){$\chi$}
\put(0,-1.5){\vector(0,1){3}}
\multiput(-2.5,1)(0.4,0){13} = v/c = tanh
{\line(1,0){0.2}} 6
\multiput(-2.5,-1)(0.4,0){13}
{\line(1,0){0.2}} -
\put(0.2,1.4)
{$\beta=v/c=\tanh\chi$}
\qbezier(0,0)(0.8853,0.8853)
(2,0.9640) t
\qbezier(0,0)(-0.8853,-0.8853)
(-2,-0.9640)
\put(-3,-2){\circle*{0.2}}
\end{picture}
The control points of the two Bzier curves were calculated with formulas
(5.1). The positive branch is determined by P1 = (0, 0), m1 = 1 and P2 =
(2, tanh 2), m2 = 1/ cosh2 2. Again, the picture is defined in mathematically
convenient coordinates, and the lower left corner is assigned the mathematical
coordinates (3, 2) (black disk).
5.3 The PGF and TikZ Graphics Packages
Today every LATEX output generation system can create nice vector graphics,
its just the interfaces that are rather diverse. The pgf package provides an
abstraction layer over these interface. The pgf package comes with a large
manual/tutorial of its own [18]. So we are only going to scratch the surface
of the package with this little section.
The pgf package comes with a high level access language provided by the
tikz package. TikZ provides highly efficient commands to draw graphics right
from inside your document. Use the tikzpicture environment to wrap your
TikZ commands.
As mentioned above, there is an excellent manual for pgf and friends.
So instead of actually explaining how it works, I will just show you a few
examples so that you can get a first impression of how this tool works.
First a simple nonsense diagram.
\begin{tikzpicture}[scale=3]
\clip (-0.1,-0.2)
rectangle (1.8,1.2);
\draw[step=.25cm,gray,very thin]
(-1.4,-1.4) grid (3.4,3.4);
\draw (-1.5,0) -- (2.5,0);
\draw (0,-1.5) -- (0,1.5);
\draw (0,0) circle (1cm);
\filldraw[fill=green!20!white,
draw=green!50!black]
(0,0) -- (3mm,0mm)
arc (0:30:3mm) -- cycle;
\end{tikzpicture}
Note the semicolon (;) character. It separates the individual commands.
A simple Venn diagram.
\shorthandoff{:}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\node[circle,draw,
minimum size=3cm, economics psychology
label=120:{economics}]
at (0,0) {};
\node[circle,draw,
minimum size=3cm,
label=60:{psychology}]
at (1,0) {};
\node (i) at (0.5,-1) {};
\node at (0.6,-2.5)
{behavioral economics}
behavioral economics
edge[->,thick,
out=60,in=-60] (i);
\end{tikzpicture}
If you are using tikz in connection with babel some of the characters used
in the TikZ language may get modified by babel, leading to odd errors. To
counteract this, add the \shorthandoff command to your code.
Note the foreach loops in the next example.

5.3 The PGF and TikZ Graphics Packages 117
\begin{tikzpicture}[scale=0.8]
\tikzstyle{v}=[circle, minimum size=2mm,inner sep=0pt,draw]
\foreach \i in {1,...,8}
\foreach \j in {1,...,3}
\node[v]
(G-\i-\j) at (\i,\j) {};
\foreach \i in {1,...,8}
\foreach \j/\o in {1/2,2/3}
\draw[->]
(G-\i-\j) -- (G-\i-\o);
\foreach \i/\n in
{1/2,2/3,3/4,4/5,5/6,6/7,7/8}
\foreach \j/\o in {1/2,2/3} {
\draw[->] (G-\i-\j) -- (G-\n-\o);
\draw[->] (G-\n-\j) -- (G-\i-\o);
}
\end{tikzpicture}
With the \usetikzlibrary command in the preamble you can enable a

wide variety of additional features for drawing special shapes, like this box
which is slightly bent.
\usetikzlibrary{%
decorations.pathmorphing}
\begin{tikzpicture}[
B
decoration={bent,aspect=.3}]
\draw [decorate,fill=lightgray]
(0,0) rectangle (5.5,4);
\node[circle,draw]
(A) at (.5,.5) {A};
\node[circle,draw]
(B) at (5,3.5) {B};
\draw[->,decorate] (A) -- (B); A
\draw[->,decorate] (B) -- (A);
\end{tikzpicture}
\usetikzlibrary{positioning}
\begin{tikzpicture}[xscale=6,
yscale=8,>=stealth]
\tikzstyle{v}=[circle,
minimum size=1mm,draw,thick]
\node[v] (a) {$1$};
\node[v] (b) [right=of a] {$2$}; 1 2
\node[v] (c) [below=of a] {$2$};
\node[v] (d) [below=of b] {$1$};
\draw[thick,->]
2 1
(a) to node {} (c);
\draw[thick,->]
(a) to node {} (d);
\draw[thick,->]
(b) to node {} (d);
\end{tikzpicture}
You can even draw syntax diagrams that look as if they came straight
from a book on Pascal programming. The code is a bit more daunting than
the example above, so I will just show you the result. If you have a look at
the pgf documentation you will find a detailed tutorial on drawing this exact
diagram.
unsigned integer . digit E unsigned integer
And there is more, if you have to draw plots of numerical data or functions,
you should have a closer look at the pgfplot package. It provides everything
you need to draw plots. It can even call the external gnuplot command to
evaluate actual functions you wrote into the graph.
For more inspiration make sure to visit Kjell Magne Fauskes excellent
http://www.texample.net/tikz/. it contains an ever expanding store of
beautiful graphs and other LATEX code. On TEXample.net you will also find
a list of tools to work with PGF/TikZ so that you do not have to write all
that code by hand.
Chapter 6
Customising LATEX
Documents produced with the commands you have learned up to this point will
look acceptable to a large audience. While they are not fancy-looking, they obey
all the established rules of good typesetting, which will make them easy to read
and pleasant to look at.
However, there are situations where LATEX does not provide a command or
environment that matches your needs, or the output produced by some existing
command may not meet your requirements.
In this chapter, I will try to give some hints on how to teach LATEX new tricks
and how to make it produce output that looks different from what is provided
by default.
6.1 New Commands, Environments and Packages

You may have noticed that all the commands I introduce in this book are
typeset in a box, and that they show up in the index at the end of the book.
Instead of directly using the necessary LATEX commands to achieve this, I
have created a package in which I defined new commands and environments
for this purpose. Now I can simply write:
\begin{lscommand}
\dum
\ci{dum}
\end{lscommand}
In this example, I am using both a new environment called

lscommand, which is responsible for drawing the box around the command,
and a new command named \ci, which typesets the command name and
makes a corresponding entry in the index. Check this out by looking up the
\dum command in the index at the back of this book, where youll find an
entry for \dum, pointing to every page where I mentioned the \dum command.
120 Customising LATEX
If I ever decide that I do not like having the commands typeset in a box
any more, I can simply change the definition of the lscommand environment
to create a new look. This is much easier than going through the whole
document to hunt down all the places where I have used some generic LATEX
commands to draw a box around some word.
6.1.1 New Commands

To add your own commands, use the
\newcommand{name}[num]{definition}
command. Basically, the command requires two arguments: the name of

the command you want to create, and the definition of the command. The
num argument in square brackets is optional and specifies the number of
arguments the new command takes (up to 9 are possible). If missing it
defaults to 0, i.e. no argument allowed.
The following two examples should help you to get the idea. The first
example defines a new command called \tnss. This is short for The Not
So Short Introduction to LATEX 2 . Such a command could come in handy
if you had to write the title of this book over and over again.
\newcommand{\tnss}{The not
so Short Introduction to This is The not so Short Introduction to
\LaTeXe} LATEX 2 . . . The not so Short Introduc-
This is \tnss \ldots{} tion to LATEX 2
\tnss
The next example illustrates how to define a new command that takes
one argument. The #1 tag gets replaced by the argument you specify. If you
wanted to use more than one argument, use #2 and so on.
\newcommand{\txsit}[2]
{This is the \emph{#1}
#2 Introduction to \LaTeXe} This is the not so short Introduction
% in the document body: to LATEX 2
\begin{itemize} This is the very long Introduction
\item \txsit{not so}{short} to LATEX 2
\item \txsit{very}{long}
\end{itemize}
LATEX will not allow you to create a new command that would overwrite
an existing one. But there is a special command in case you explicitly
want this: \renewcommand. It uses the same syntax as the \newcommand
command.
6.1 New Commands, Environments and Packages 121
In certain cases you might also want to use the \providecommand com-
mand. It works like \newcommand, but if the command is already defined,
LATEX 2 will silently ignore it.
There are some points to note about whitespace following LATEX com-
mands. See page 5 for more information.
6.1.2 New Environments

Just as with the \newcommand command, there is a command to create
your own environments. The \newenvironment command uses the following
syntax:
\newenvironment{name}[num]{before}{after}
Again \newenvironment can have an optional argument. The material

specified in the before argument is processed before the text in the environ-
ment gets processed. The material in the after argument gets processed
when the \end{name} command is encountered.
The example below illustrates the usage of the \newenvironment com-
mand.
\newenvironment{king}
{\rule{1ex}{1ex}%
\hspace{\stretch{1}}}
{\hspace{\stretch{1}}%
\rule{1ex}{1ex}} My humble subjects . . .
\begin{king}
My humble subjects \ldots
\end{king}
The num argument is used the same way as in the \newcommand command.
LAT EX makes sure that you do not define an environment that already exists.
If you ever want to change an existing command, use the \renewenvironment
command. It uses the same syntax as the \newenvironment command.
The commands used in this example will be explained later. For the \rule
command see page 135, for \stretch go to page 129, and more information
on \hspace can be found on page 129.
6.1.3 Extra Space

When creating a new environment you may easily get bitten by extra spaces
creeping in, which can potentially have fatal effects, for example when you
want to create a title environment which supresses its own indentation as well
as the one on the following paragraph. The \ignorespaces command in the
begin block of the environment will make it ignore any space after executing
the begin block. The end block is a bit more tricky as special processing
occurs at the end of an environment. With the \ignorespacesafterend
LATEX will issue an \ignorespaces after the special end processing has
occurred.
\newenvironment{simple}%
{\noindent}%
{\par\noindent} See the space
to the left.
\begin{simple} Same
See the space\\to the left. here.
\end{simple}
Same\\here.
\newenvironment{correct}%
{\noindent\ignorespaces}%
{\par\noindent% No space
\ignorespacesafterend} to the left.
\begin{correct} Same
No space\\to the left. here.
\end{correct}
Same\\here.
6.1.4 Commandline LATEX

If you work on a Unix-like OS, you might be using Makefiles to build
your LATEX projects. In that connection it might be interesting to produce
different versions of the same document by calling LATEX with commandline
parameters. If you add the following structure to your document:
\usepackage{ifthen}
\ifthenelse{\equal{\blackandwhite}{true}}{
% "black and white" mode; do something..
}{
% "color" mode; do something different..
}
Now call LATEX like this:
latex \newcommand{\blackandwhite}{true}\input{test.tex}
First the command \blackandwhite gets defined and then the actual
file is read with input. By setting \blackandwhite to false the color version
of the document would be produced.
6.2 Fonts and Sizes 123
6.1.5 Your Own Package

If you define a lot of new environments and commands, the preamble of your
document will get quite long. In this situation, it is a good idea to create a
LATEX package containing all your command and environment definitions. Use
the \usepackage command to make the package available in your document.
% Demo Package by Tobias Oetiker

\ProvidesPackage{demopack}
\newcommand{\tnss}{The not so Short Introduction
to \LaTeXe}
\newcommand{\txsit}[1]{The \emph{#1} Short
Introduction to \LaTeXe}
\newenvironment{king}{\begin{quote}}{\end{quote}}
Figure 6.1: Example Package.
Writing a package basically consists of copying the contents of your

document preamble into a separate file with a name ending in .sty. There
is one special command,
\ProvidesPackage{package name}
for use at the very beginning of your package file. \ProvidesPackage tells
LATEX the name of the package and will allow it to issue a sensible error
message when you try to include a package twice. Figure 6.1 shows a small
example package that contains the commands defined in the examples above.
6.2 Fonts and Sizes

6.2.1 Font Changing Commands
LATEX chooses the appropriate font and font size based on the logical structure
of the document (sections, footnotes, . . . ). In some cases, one might like
to change fonts and sizes by hand. To do this, use the commands listed in
Tables 6.1 and 6.2. The actual size of each font is a design issue and depends
on the document class and its options. Table 6.3 shows the absolute point
size for these commands as implemented in the standard document classes.
{\small The small and

\textbf{bold} Romans ruled} The small and bold Romans ruled all of
{\Large all of great big great big Italy.
\textit{Italy}.}
One important feature of LATEX 2 is that the font attributes are inde-
pendent. This means that issuing size or even font changing commands, and
still keep bold or slant attributes set earlier.
In math mode use the font changing commands to temporarily exit math
mode and enter some normal text. If you want to switch to another font
for math typesetting you need another special set of commands; refer to
Table 6.4.
In connection with the font size commands, curly braces play a significant
role. They are used to build groups. Groups limit the scope of most LATEX
commands.
He likes {\LARGE large and

{\small small} letters}. He likes large and small letters.
The font size commands also change the line spacing, but only if the
paragraph ends within the scope of the font size command. The closing curly
brace } should therefore not come too early. Note the position of the \par
command in the next two examples. 1
1
\par is equivalent to a blank line
Table 6.1: Fonts.
\textrm{...} roman \textsf{...} sans serif

\texttt{...} typewriter
\textmd{...} medium \textbf{...} bold face
\textup{...} upright \textit{...} italic
\textsl{...} slanted \textsc{...} Small Caps
\emph{...} emphasized \textnormal{...} document font
Table 6.2: Font Sizes.
\tiny tiny font \Large larger font

\scriptsize
\footnotesize
very small font
quite small font
\LARGE very large font
\small small font \huge huge
\normalsize normal font
\large large font \Huge largest
6.2 Fonts and Sizes 125
Table 6.3: Absolute Point Sizes in Standard Classes.
size 10pt (default) 11pt option 12pt option

\tiny 5pt 6pt 6pt
\scriptsize 7pt 8pt 8pt
\footnotesize 8pt 9pt 10pt
\small 9pt 10pt 11pt
\normalsize 10pt 11pt 12pt
\large 12pt 12pt 14pt
\Large 14pt 14pt 17pt
\LARGE 17pt 17pt 20pt
\huge 20pt 20pt 25pt
\Huge 25pt 25pt 25pt
Table 6.4: Math Fonts.
\mathrm{...} Roman Font

\mathbf{...} Boldface Font
\mathsf{...} Sans Serif Font
\mathtt{...} Typewriter Font
\mathit{...} Italic Font
\mathcal{...} CALLIGRAPHIC FONT
\mathnormal{...} N ormal F ont
{\Large Dont read this!

It is not true.
Dont read this! It is not true.
You can believe me!\par} You can believe me!
{\Large This is not true either. This is not true either. But
But remember I am a liar.}\par remember I am a liar.
If you want to activate a size changing command for a whole paragraph

of text or even more, you might want to use the environment syntax for font
changing commands.
\begin{Large}
This is not true.
But then again, what is these This is not true. But then
days \ldots again, what is these days . . .
\end{Large}
This will save you from counting lots of curly braces.
6.2.2 Danger, Will Robinson, Danger

As noted at the beginning of this chapter, it is dangerous to clutter your
document with explicit commands like this, because they work in opposition
to the basic idea of LATEX, which is to separate the logical and visual markup
of your document. This means that if you use the same font changing
command in several places in order to typeset a special kind of information,
you should use \newcommand to define a logical wrapper command for the
font changing command.
\newcommand{\oops}[1]{%
\textbf{#1}}
Do not enter this room, its occupied by
Do not \oops{enter} this room,
machines of unknown origin and purpose.
its occupied by \oops{machines}
of unknown origin and purpose.
This approach has the advantage that you can decide at some later
stage that you want to use a visual representation of danger other than
\textbf, without having to wade through your document, identifying all the
occurrences of \textbf and then figuring out for each one whether it was
used for pointing out danger or for some other reason.
Please note the difference between telling LATEX to emphasize something
and telling it to use a different font. The \emph command is context aware,
while the font commands are absolute.
6.3 Spacing 127
\textit{You can also

\emph{emphasize} text if
it is set in italics,} You can also emphasize text if it is set
\textsf{in a in italics, in a sans-serif font, or in
\emph{sans-serif} font,} typewriter style.
\texttt{or in
\emph{typewriter} style.}
6.2.3 Advice
To conclude this journey into the land of fonts and font sizes, here is a little
word of advice:
!
Remember The MO RE fonts youuse in a document, the
more readable and beautiful it become . s
6.3 Spacing
6.3.1 Line Spacing
If you want to use larger inter-line spacing in a document, change its value
by putting the
\linespread{factor}
command into the preamble of your document. Use \linespread{1.3}

for one and a half line spacing, and \linespread{1.6} for double line
spacing. Normally the lines are not spread, so the default line spread factor
is 1.
Note that the effect of the \linespread command is rather drastic and
not appropriate for published work. So if you have a good reason for changing
the line spacing you might want to use the command:
\setlength{\baselineskip}{1.5\baselineskip}
{\setlength{\baselineskip}%
{1.5\baselineskip}
This paragraph is typeset with the base-
This paragraph is typeset with
the baseline skip set to 1.5 of line skip set to 1.5 of what it was before.
what it was before. Note the par
Note the par command at the end of the
command at the end of the
paragraph.\par} paragraph.
This paragraph has a clear purpose, it
This paragraph has a clear
shows that after the curly brace has been
purpose, it shows that after the
closed, everything is back to normal.
curly brace has been closed,
everything is back to normal.
6.3.2 Paragraph Formatting
In LATEX, there are two parameters influencing paragraph layout. By placing

a definition like
\setlength{\parindent}{0pt}
\setlength{\parskip}{1ex plus 0.5ex minus 0.2ex}
in the preamble of the input file, you can change the layout of paragraphs.
These two commands increase the space between two paragraphs while setting
the paragraph indent to zero.
The plus and minus parts of the length above tell TEX that it can
compress and expand the inter-paragraph skip by the amount specified, if
this is necessary to properly fit the paragraphs onto the page.
In continental Europe, paragraphs are often separated by some space and
not indented. But beware, this also has its effect on the table of contents.
Its lines get spaced more loosely now as well. To avoid this, you might
want to move the two commands from the preamble into your document to
some place below the command \tableofcontents or to not use them at
all, because youll find that most professional books use indenting and not
spacing to separate paragraphs.
6.3 Spacing 129
If you want to indent a paragraph that is not indented, use
\indent
at the beginning of the paragraph.2 Obviously, this will only have an effect
when \parindent is not set to zero.
To create a non-indented paragraph, use
\noindent
as the first command of the paragraph. This might come in handy when you
start a document with body text and not with a sectioning command.
6.3.3 Horizontal Space

LATEX determines the spaces between words and sentences automatically. To
add horizontal space, use:
\hspace{length}
If such a space should be kept even if it falls at the end or the start of
a line, use \hspace* instead of \hspace. The length in the simplest case is
just a number plus a unit. The most important units are listed in Table 6.5.
This\hspace{1.5cm}is a space This is a space of 1.5 cm.

of 1.5 cm.
The command
\stretch{n}
generates a special rubber space. It stretches until all the remaining space
on a line is filled up. If multiple \hspace{\stretch{n}} commands are
issued on the same line, they occupy all available space in proportion of their
respective stretch factors.
x\hspace{\stretch{1}}
x x x
x\hspace{\stretch{3}}x
When using horizontal space together with text, it may make sense to
make the space adjust its size relative to the size of the current font. This
can be done by using the text-relative units em and ex:
2
To indent the first paragraph after each section head, use the indentfirst package in
the tools bundle.
Table 6.5: TEX Units.
mm millimetre 1/25 inch

cm centimetre = 10 mm
in inch = 25.4 mm
pt point 1/72 inch 13 mm
em approx width of an M in the current font
ex approx height of an x in the current font
{\Large{}big\hspace{1em}y}\\ big y
{\tiny{}tin\hspace{1em}y} tin y
6.3.4 Vertical Space

The space between paragraphs, sections, subsections, . . . is determined
automatically by LATEX. If necessary, additional vertical space between two
paragraphs can be added with the command:
\vspace{length}
This command should normally be used between two empty lines. If the
space should be preserved at the top or at the bottom of a page, use the
starred version of the command, \vspace*, instead of \vspace.
The \stretch command, in connection with \pagebreak, can be used
to typeset text on the last line of a page, or to centre text vertically on a
page.
Some text \ldots
\vspace{\stretch{1}}
This goes onto the last line of the page.\pagebreak
Additional space between two lines of the same paragraph or within a

table is specified with the
\\[length]
command.
With \bigskip and \smallskip you can skip a predefined amount of
vertical space without having to worry about exact numbers.
6.4 Page Layout 131
6.4 Page Layout

LATEX 2 allows you to specify the paper size in the \documentclass com-
mand. It then automatically picks the right text margins, but sometimes
you may not be happy with the predefined values. Naturally, you can change
them. Figure 6.2 shows all the parameters that can be changed. The figure
was produced with the layout package from the tools bundle.3
WAIT! . . . before you launch into a Lets make that narrow page a bit
wider frenzy, take a few seconds to think. As with most things in LATEX,
there is a good reason for the page layout to be as it is.
Sure, compared to your off-the-shelf MS Word page, it looks awfully
narrow. But take a look at your favourite book4 and count the number of
characters on a standard text line. You will find that there are no more than
about 66 characters on each line. Now do the same on your LATEX page.
You will find that there are also about 66 characters per line. Experience
shows that the reading gets difficult as soon as there are more characters
on a single line. This is because it is difficult for the eyes to move from the
end of one line to the start of the next one. This is also why newspapers are
typeset in multiple columns.
So if you increase the width of your body text, keep in mind that you
are making life difficult for the readers of your paper. But enough of the
cautioning, I promised to tell you how you do it . . .
LATEX provides two commands to change these parameters. They are
usually used in the document preamble.
The first command assigns a fixed value to any of the parameters:
\setlength{parameter}{length}
The second command adds a length to any of the parameters:
\addtolength{parameter}{length}
This second command is actually more useful than the \setlength

command, because it works relative to the existing settings. To add one
centimetre to the overall text width, I put the following commands into the
document preamble:
\addtolength{\hoffset}{-0.5cm}
\addtolength{\textwidth}{1cm}
In this context, you might want to look at the calc package. It allows
you to use arithmetic operations in the argument of \setlength and other
places where numeric values are entered into function arguments.
3
pkg/tools
4
I mean a real printed book produced by a reputable publisher.
6
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6 i
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?
6 ?Header
6
6 6
Margin
Body i
7
Notes
- 9i
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1 one inch + \hoffset 2 one inch + \voffset

3 \oddsidemargin = 22pt 4 \topmargin = 22pt
or \evensidemargin
5 \headheight = 12pt 6 \headsep = 19pt
7 \textheight = 595pt 8 \textwidth = 360pt
9 \marginparsep = 7pt 10 \marginparwidth = 106pt
11 \footskip = 27pt \marginparpush = 5pt (not shown)
\hoffset = 0pt \voffset = 0pt
\paperwidth = 597pt \paperheight = 845pt
Figure 6.2: Layout parameters for this book. Try the layouts package to
print the layout of your own document.
6.5 More Fun With Lengths 133
6.5 More Fun With Lengths

Whenever possible, I avoid using absolute lengths in LATEX documents. I
rather try to base things on the width or height of other page elements. For
the width of a figure this could be \textwidth in order to make it fill the
page.
The following 3 commands allow you to determine the width, height and
depth of a text string.
\settoheight{variable}{text}
\settodepth{variable}{text}
\settowidth{variable}{text}
The example below shows a possible application of these commands.
\flushleft
\newenvironment{vardesc}[1]{%
\settowidth{\parindent}{#1:\ }
\makebox[0pt][r]{#1:\ }}{}
\begin{displaymath} a2 + b2 = c2
a^2+b^2=c^2
\end{displaymath} Where: a, b are adjacent to the right
angle of a right-angled triangle.
\begin{vardesc}{Where}$a$,
$b$ -- are adjacent to the right c is the hypotenuse of the
angle of a right-angled triangle. triangle and feels lonely.
d finally does not show up here
$c$ -- is the hypotenuse of at all. Isnt that puzzling?
the triangle and feels lonely.
$d$ -- finally does not show up

here at all. Isnt that puzzling?
\end{vardesc}
6.6 Boxes
LATEX builds up its pages by pushing around boxes. At first, each letter is
a little box, which is then glued to other letters to form words. These are
again glued to other words, but with special glue, which is elastic so that a
series of words can be squeezed or stretched as to exactly fill a line on the
page.
I admit, this is a very simplistic version of what really happens, but the
point is that TEX operates on glue and boxes. Letters are not the only things
that can be boxes. You can put virtually everything into a box, including
other boxes. Each box will then be handled by LATEX as if it were a single
letter.
In earlier chapters you encountered some boxes, although I did not tell
you. The tabular environment and the \includegraphics, for example,
both produce a box. This means that you can easily arrange two tables or
images side by side. You just have to make sure that their combined width
is not larger than the textwidth.
You can also pack a paragraph of your choice into a box with either the
\parbox[pos]{width}{text}
command or the
\begin{minipage}[pos]{width} text \end{minipage}
environment. The pos parameter can take one of the letters c, t or b to

control the vertical alignment of the box, relative to the baseline of the
surrounding text. width takes a length argument specifying the width of the
box. The main difference between a minipage and a \parbox is that you
cannot use all commands and environments inside a parbox, while almost
anything is possible in a minipage.
While \parbox packs up a whole paragraph doing line breaking and
everything, there is also a class of boxing commands that operates only
on horizontally aligned material. We already know one of them; its called
\mbox. It simply packs up a series of boxes into another one, and can be
used to prevent LATEX from breaking two words. As boxes can be put inside
boxes, these horizontal box packers give you ultimate flexibility.
\makebox[width][pos]{text}
width defines the width of the resulting box as seen from the outside.5
Besides the length expressions, you can also use \width, \height, \depth,
and \totalheight in the width parameter. They are set from values obtained
by measuring the typeset text. The pos parameter takes a one letter value:
center, flushleft, flushright, or spread the text to fill the box.
The command \framebox works exactly the same as \makebox, but it
draws a box around the text.
The following example shows you some things you could do with the
\makebox and \framebox commands.
5
This means it can be smaller than the material inside the box. You can even set
the width to 0pt so that the text inside the box will be typeset without influencing the
surrounding boxes.
6.7 Rules 135
\makebox[\textwidth]{%
c e n t r a l}\par
\makebox[\textwidth][s]{% central
s p r e a d}\par s p r e a d
\framebox[1.1\width]{Guess Im
framed now!} \par Guess Im framed now!
\framebox[0.8\width][r]{Bummer, Bummer, I am too wide
I am too wide} \par
\framebox[1cm][l]{never never mind,
Can you
so am
readI this?
mind, so am I}
Can you read this?
Now that we control the horizontal, the obvious next step is to go for the
vertical.6 No problem for LATEX. The
\raisebox{lift}[extend-above-baseline][extend-below-baseline]{text}
command lets you define the vertical properties of a box. You can use \width,
\height, \depth, and \totalheight in the first three parameters, in order
to act upon the size of the box inside the text argument.
\raisebox{0pt}[0pt][0pt]{\Large%
\textbf{Aaaa\raisebox{-0.3ex}{a}%
\raisebox{-0.7ex}{aa}%
\raisebox{-1.2ex}{r}% Aaaaaaa she shouted, but not
\raisebox{-2.2ex}{g}% rg in line noticed that some-
even the next one
\raisebox{-4.5ex}{h}}} thing terrible hadhhappened to her.
she shouted, but not even the next
one in line noticed that something
terrible had happened to her.
6.7 Rules
A few pages back you may have noticed the command
\rule[lift]{width}{height}
In normal use it produces a simple black box.
\rule{3mm}{.1pt}%
\rule[-1mm]{5mm}{1cm}%
\rule{3mm}{.1pt}%
\rule[1mm]{1cm}{5mm}%
\rule{3mm}{.1pt}
6
Total control is only to be obtained by controlling both the horizontal and the vertical
...
This is useful for drawing vertical and horizontal lines. The line on the title
page, for example, has been created with a \rule command.
The End.
Appendix A
Installing LATEX
Knuth published the source to TEX back in a time when nobody knew about
OpenSource and/or Free Software. The License that comes with TEX lets you
do whatever you want with the source, but you can only call the result of your
work TEX if the program passes a set of tests Knuth has also provided. This has
lead to a situation where we have free TEX implementations for almost every
Operating System under the sun. This chapter will give some hints on what to
install on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows, to get a working TEX setup.
A.1 What to Install

To use LATEX on any computer system, you need several programs.
1. The TEX/LATEX program for processing your LATEX source files into
typeset PDF or DVI documents.
2. A text editor for editing your LATEX source files. Some products even
let you start the LATEX program from within the editor.
3. A PDF/DVI viewer program for previewing and printing your docu-
ments.
4. A program to handle PostScript files and images for inclusion into
your documents.
For every platforms there are several programs that fit the requirements
above. Here we just tell about the ones we know, like and have some
experience with.
A.2 Cross Platform Editor

While TEX is available on many different computing platforms, LATEX editors
have long been highly platform specific.
138 Installing LATEX
Over the past few years I have come to like Texmaker quite a lot. Apart
from being very a useful editor with integrated pdf-preview and syntax high-
lighting, it has the advantage of running on Windows, Mac and Unix/Linux
equally well. See http://www.xm1math.net/texmaker for further infor-
mation. There is also a forked version of Texmaker called TeXstudio on
http://texstudio.sourceforge.net/. It also seems well maintained and
is also available for all three major platforms.
You will find some platform specific editor suggestions in the OS sections
below.
A.3 TEX on Mac OS X

A.3.1 TEX Distribution
Just download MacTeX. It is a pre-compiled LATEX distribution for OS X.
MacTeX provides a full LATEX installation plus a number of additional tools.
Get MacTEX from http://www.tug.org/mactex/.
A.3.2 OSX TEX Editor

If you are not happy with our cross-platform suggestion Texmaker (section
A.2).
The most popular open source editor for LATEX on the mac seems to be
TEXshop. Get a copy from http://www.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop. It
is also contained in the MacTeX distribution.
Recent TEXLive distributions contain the TEXworks editor http://
texworks.org/ which is a multi-platform editor based on the TEXShop
design. Since TEXworks uses the Qt toolkit, it is available on any platform
supported by this toolkit (MacOS X, Windows, Linux.)
A.3.3 Treat yourself to PDFView

Use PDFView for viewing PDF files generated by LATEX, it integrates tightly
with your LATEX text editor. PDFView is an open-source application, avail-
able from the PDFView website on
http://pdfview.sourceforge.net/. After installing, open PDFViews pref-
erences dialog and make sure that the automatically reload documents option
is enabled and that PDFSync support is set appropriately.
A.4 TEX on Windows

A.4.1 Getting TEX
First, get a copy of the excellent MiKTEX distribution from
http://www.miktex.org/. It contains all the basic programs and files
A.5 TEX on Linux 139
required to compile LATEX documents. The coolest feature in my eyes, is

that MiKTEX will download missing LATEX packages on the fly and install
them magically while compiling a document. Alternatively you can also use
the TeXlive distribution which exists for Windows, Unix and Mac OS to get
your base setup going http://www.tug.org/texlive/.
A.4.2 A LATEX editor

If you are not happy with our crossplatform suggestion Texmaker (section
A.2).
TeXnicCenter uses many concepts from the programming-world to pro-
vide a nice and efficient LATEX writing environment in Windows. Get your
copy from
http://www.texniccenter.org/. TeXnicCenter integrates nicely with MiK-
TeX.
Recent TEXLive distributions contain the TEXworks Editor http://
texworks.org/. It supports Unicode and requires at least Windows XP.
A.4.3 Document Preview

You will most likely be using Yap for DVI preview as it gets installed
with MikTeX. For PDF you may want to look at Sumatra PDF http:
//blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/. I mention Sumatra PDF
because it lets you jump from any position in the pdf document back into
corresponding position in your source document.
A.4.4 Working with graphics

Working with high quality graphics in LATEX means that you have to use
Encapsulated PostScript (eps) or PDF as your picture format. The
program that helps you deal with this is called GhostScript. You can get
it, together with its own front-end GhostView, from http://www.cs.wisc.
edu/~ghost/.
If you deal with bitmap graphics (photos and scanned material), you
may want to have a look at the open source Photoshop alternative Gimp,
available from http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/.
A.5 TEX on Linux

If you work with Linux, chances are high that LATEX is already installed on
your system, or at least available on the installation source you used to setup.
Use your package manager to install the following packages:
texlive the base TEX/LATEX setup.

140 Installing LATEX
emacs (with AUCTeX) an editor that integrates tightly with LATEX

through the add-on AUCTeX package.
ghostscript a PostScript preview program.
xpdf and acrobat a PDF preview program.
imagemagick a free program for converting bitmap images.
gimp a free Photoshop look-a-like.
inkscape a free illustrator/corel draw look-a-like.
If you are looking for a more windows like graphical editing environment,
check out Texmaker. See section A.2.
Most Linux distros insist on splitting up their TEX environments into a
large number of optional packages, so if something is missing after your first
install, go check again.
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verbatim.dtx, available from the same source your LATEX distribution

came from.
[11] Vladimir Volovich, Werner Lemberg and LATEX3 Project Team. Cyrillic
languages support in LATEX. Comes with the LATEX 2 distribution as
cyrguide.tex.
[12] Graham Williams. The TeX Catalogue is a very complete listing of

many TEX and LATEX related packages. Available online from CTAN:
//help/Catalogue/catalogue.html
[13] Keith Reckdahl. Using EPS Graphics in LATEX 2 Documents, which

explains everything and much more than you ever wanted to know
about EPS files and their use in LATEX documents. Available online from
CTAN://info/epslatex.ps
[14] Kristoffer H. Rose. XY-pic Users Guide. Downloadable from CTAN

with XY-pic distribution
[15] John D. Hobby. A Users Manual for METAPOST. Downloadable from

http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/hobby/
[16] Alan Hoenig. TEX Unbound. Oxford University Press, 1998, ISBN
0-19-509685-1; 0-19-509686-X (pbk.)
[17] Urs Oswald. Graphics in LATEX 2 , containing some Java source files for
generating arbitrary circles and ellipses within the picture environment,
and METAPOST - A Tutorial. Both downloadable from http://www.
ursoswald.ch
[18] Till Tantau. TikZ&PGF Manual. Download from CTAN://graphics/

pgf/base/doc/generic/pgf/pgfmanual.pdf
[19] Franois Charette. Polyglossia: A Babel Replacement for X LATEX.E

Comes with the TEXLive distribution as polyglossia.pdf. (Type
texdoc polyglossia on the command line.)
[20] Franois Charette. An ArabTEX-like interface for typesetting languages

in Arabic script with X LATEX. Comes with the TEXLive distribution as
E
arabxetex.pdf. (Type texdoc arabxetex on the command line.)
[21] Will Robertson and Khaled Hosny. The fontspec package. Comes with
the TEXLive distribution as fontspec.pdf. (Type texdoc fontspec
on the command line.)
[22] Apostolos Syropoulos. The xgreek package. Comes with the TEXLive
distribution as xgreek.pdf. (Type texdoc xgreek on the command
line.)
BIBLIOGRAPHY 143
[23] Vafa Khalighi. The bidi package. Comes with the TEXLive distribution
as bidi.pdf. (Type texdoc bidi on the command line.
[24] Vafa Khalighi. The XePersian package. Comes with the TEXLive
distribution as xepersian-doc.pdf. (Type texdoc xepersian on the
command line.
[25] Wenchang Sun. The xeCJK package. Comes with the TEXLive distribu-
tion as xeCJK.pdf. (Type texdoc xecjk on the command line.
Index
Symbols \addtolength, 131

\!, 69 advantages of LATEX, 3
", 21 , 25
", 33 align, 62
"-, 33 \Alph, 32, 33
"---, 33 \alph, 32, 33
"<, 33 \Alpha, 75
"=, 33 American Mathematical Society, 53
">, 33 amsbsy, 71
", 33 amsfonts, 70, 79
$, 53 amsmath, 53, 59, 60, 68, 69, 71
\,, 55, 69 amssymb, 56, 70, 75
-, 22 amsthm, 71, 72
, 22 \and, 40
\-, 20 ansinew, 26
, 22 apostrophe, 58
, 22 \appendix, 39, 40
., space after, 38 applemac, 26
. . . , 24 Arabic, 37
\:, 69 arabxetex, 37
\;, 69 \arccos, 58
\@, 38 \arcsin, 58
\[, 54, 55 \arctan, 58
\\, 19, 43, 44, 46, 130 \arg, 58
\\*, 19 array, 67, 68
\], 54 \arraystretch, 47
~, 38 arrow symbols, 58
article class, 10
A \Asbuk, 32
A4 paper, 11 \asbuk, 32
A5 paper, 11 \author, 40, 96
, 25
abstract, 44 B
accent, 24 B5 paper, 11
Acrobat Reader, 91 babel, 20, 25, 3235, 116
acute, 25 \backmatter, 40
INDEX 145
backslash, 5 Chinese, 38
\bar, 58 \ci, 119
base font size, 11 \circle, 109
beamer, 100102, 105 \circle*, 109
\begin, 42, 106, 114 \cite, 85
\Beta, 75 \cleardoublepage, 51
\bibitem, 85 \clearpage, 51
bibliography, 85 \cline, 46
bicig, 33 color, 100
bidi, 36, 37 coloured text, 10
\Big, 60 comma, 23
\big, 60 commands, 5
\Bigg, 60 \!, 69
\bigg, 60 \,, 55, 69
\bigskip, 130 \-, 20
binary relations, 59 \:, 69
\binom, 59 \;, 69
binomial coefficient, 59 \@, 38
blackboard bold, 56 \[, 54, 55
block, 102 \\, 19, 43, 44, 46, 130
bm, 71 \\*, 19
Bmatrix, 68 \], 54
bmatrix, 68 \addtolength, 131
\bmod, 58 \Alph, 32, 33
bold face, 124 \alph, 32, 33
bold symbols, 56, 71 \Alpha, 75
\boldmath, 71 \and, 40
\boldsymbol, 71 \appendix, 39, 40
book class, 10 \arccos, 58
booktabs, 48 \arcsin, 58
brace \arctan, 58
horizontal, 57 \arg, 58
bracketing, 60 \arraystretch, 47
brazilian, 27 \Asbuk, 32
\asbuk, 32
C \author, 40, 96
calc, 131 \backmatter, 40
\caption, 50, 51 \bar, 58
cases, 68 \begin, 42, 106, 114
\cdot, 57 \Beta, 75
\cdots, 57 \bibitem, 85
center, 43 \Big, 60
\chapter, 39 \big, 60
\chaptermark, 89 \Bigg, 60
146 INDEX
\bigg, 60 \flqq, 29
\bigskip, 130 \foldera, 113
\binom, 59 \folderb, 113
\bmod, 58 \footnote, 41, 51
\boldmath, 71 \footskip, 132
\boldsymbol, 71 \frac, 59
\caption, 50, 51 \framebox, 134
\cdot, 57 \frenchspacing, 32, 38
\cdots, 57 \frontmatter, 40
\chapter, 39 \frq, 29
\chaptermark, 89 \frqq, 29
\ci, 119 \fussy, 20
\circle, 109 \gcd, 58
\circle*, 109 \hat, 58
\cite, 85 \headheight, 132
\cleardoublepage, 51 \headsep, 132
\clearpage, 51 \height, 134, 135
\cline, 46 \hline, 46
\cos, 58 \hom, 58
\cosh, 58 \href, 95, 96, 98
\cot, 58 \hspace, 121, 129
\coth, 58 \hyphenation, 20
\csc, 58 \idotsint, 69
\date, 40 \IEEEeqnarraymulticol, 65
\ddots, 57 \IEEEmulticol, 67
\DeclareMathOperator, 58 \IEEEnonumber, 66
\deg, 58 \IEEEyesnumber, 67
\depth, 134, 135 \IEEEyessubnumber, 67
\det, 58 \ifpdf, 97
\dfrac, 59 \ignorespaces, 121, 122
\dim, 58 \ignorespacesafterend, 122
\displaystyle, 70 \iiiint, 69
\documentclass, 9, 14, 20 \iiint, 69
\dq, 29 \iint, 69
\dum, 119 \include, 14, 15
\emph, 42, 124, 126 \includegraphics, 84, 93, 97,
\end, 42, 106 134
\enumBul, 32 \includeonly, 15
\enumEng, 32 \indent, 129
\enumLat, 32 \index, 86, 87
\eqref, 54 \inf, 58
\exp, 58 \input, 15
\fbox, 21 \int, 60
\flq, 29 \item, 42
INDEX 147
\ker, 58 \nonumber, 66
\label, 41, 50, 54 \nopagebreak, 19
\LaTeX, 21 \not, 76
\LaTeXe, 21 \oddsidemargin, 132
\ldots, 24, 57 \oval, 111, 113
\left, 60 \overbrace, 57
\lefteqn, 63, 65 \overleftarrow, 58
\leftmark, 87, 89 \overline, 57
\lg, 58 \overrightarrow, 58
\lim, 58 \pagebreak, 19
\liminf, 58 \pageref, 41, 90
\limsup, 58 \pagestyle, 13
\line, 108, 113 \paperheight, 132
\linebreak, 19 \paperwidth, 132
\linespread, 127 \par, 124
\linethickness, 110, 111, 113 \paragraph, 39
\listoffigures, 50 \parbox, 134
\listoftables, 50 \parindent, 128
\ln, 58 \parskip, 128
\log, 58 \part, 39
\mainmatter, 40, 96 \partial, 59
\makebox, 134 \phantom, 51, 70
\makeindex, 86 \pmod, 58
\maketitle, 40 \Pr, 58
\marginparpush, 132 \printindex, 87
\marginparsep, 132 \prod, 60
\marginparwidth, 132 \protect, 51
\mathbb, 56 \providecommand, 121
\max, 58 \ProvidesPackage, 123
\mbox, 21, 24, 134 \put, 107112
\min, 58 \qbezier, 105, 107, 113
\multicolumn, 47 \qedhere, 73, 74
\multicolumns, 65 \qquad, 55, 69
\multiput, 107, 110 \quad, 55, 66, 69
\negmedspace, 66 \raisebox, 135
\newcommand, 69, 120, 121 \ref, 41, 50, 90
\newenvironment, 121 \renewcommand, 120
\newline, 19 \renewenvironment, 121
\newpage, 19 \right, 60, 67
\newsavebox, 112 \right., 60
\newtheorem, 71 \rightmark, 87, 89
\noindent, 129 \rule, 48, 121, 135, 136
\nolinebreak, 19 \savebox, 112
\nombre, 28 \scriptscriptstyle, 70
148 INDEX
\scriptstyle, 70 \thispagestyle, 13
\sec, 58 \title, 40
\section, 39, 51 \tnss, 120
\sectionmark, 89 \today, 21
\selectlanguage, 26 \topmargin, 132
\setlength, 106, 128, 131 \totalheight, 134, 135
\settodepth, 133 \ud, 69
\settoheight, 133 \underbrace, 57
\settowidth, 133 \underline, 42, 57
\shorthandoff, 116 \unitlength, 106, 108
\sin, 58 \usebox, 112
\sinh, 58 \usepackage, 10, 13, 23, 2527,
\slash, 22 33, 123
\sloppy, 20 \usetikzlibrary, 117
\smallskip, 130 \vdots, 57
\smash, 55 \vec, 58
\sqrt, 57 \vector, 108
\stackrel, 59 \verb, 45
\stretch, 121, 129 \verbatiminput, 89
\subparagraph, 39 \vspace, 130
\subsection, 39 \widehat, 58
\subsectionmark, 89 \widetilde, 58
\substack, 60 \width, 134, 135
\subsubsection, 39 comment, 6
\sum, 60 comments, 6
\sup, 58 \cos, 58
\tabcolsep, 47 \cosh, 58
\tableofcontents, 39 \cot, 58
\tag, 54 \coth, 58
\tan, 58 cp1251, 26, 34
\tanh, 58 cp850, 26
\TeX, 21 cp866nav, 26
\texorpdfstring, 97 cross-references, 41
\textbackslash, 5 \csc, 58
\textcelsius, 23 curly braces, 5, 124
\textdegree, 23 Cyrillic, 36
\texteuro, 23
\textheight, 132 D
\textstyle, 70 dash, 22
\textwidth, 132 \date, 40
\tfrac, 59 dcolumn, 47
\theoremstyle, 71 \ddots, 57
\thicklines, 108, 111, 113 decimal alignment, 47
\thinlines, 111, 113 \DeclareMathOperator, 58
INDEX 149
\deg, 58 T2C, 27
degree symbol, 22 X2, 27
delimiters, 60 input
\depth, 134, 135 ansinew, 26
description, 42 applemac, 26
\det, 58 cp1251, 26, 34
Deutsch, 29 cp850, 26
\dfrac, 59 cp866nav, 26
diagonal dots, 57 koi8-ru, 26, 32
\dim, 58 latin1, 26
dimensions, 129 macukr, 26
display style, 53, 55 mn, 34
displaymath, 54 utf8, 26, 34
\displaystyle, 70 \end, 42, 106
doc, 12 \enumBul, 32
document font size, 11 \enumEng, 32
document title, 11 enumerate, 42
\documentclass, 9, 14, 20 \enumLat, 32
dot, 57 environments
dotless and , 25 Bmatrix, 68
dots, 57 IEEEeqnarray, 61, 62, 64
three, 57 Vmatrix, 68
double line spacing, 127 abstract, 44
double sided, 11 align, 62
\dq, 29 array, 67, 68
\dum, 119 block, 102
bmatrix, 68
E cases, 68
eepic, 109 center, 43
ellipsis, 23 comment, 6
em-dash, 22 description, 42
\emph, 42, 124, 126 displaymath, 54
empty, 13 enumerate, 42
en-dash, 22 eqnarray, 63
Encapsulated PostScript, 83, 93, equation*, 54, 55, 61
139 equation, 54, 55, 61, 63
encodings figure, 49, 50
font flushleft, 43
LGR, 27 flushright, 43
OT1, 27 frame, 102
T1, 27, 32 itemize, 42
T2*, 32 lscommand, 119
T2A, 27, 32 matrix, 68
T2B, 27 minipage, 134
150 INDEX
multline*, 61 .toc, 14
multline, 61, 63
parbox, 134 F
picture, 105, 106, 109, 110 fancyhdr, 8789
pmatrix, 68 \fbox, 21
proof, 72 figure, 49, 50
quotation, 44 file types, 13
quote, 44 floating bodies, 48
table, 49, 50 \flq, 29
tabular, 45, 134 \flqq, 29
thebibliography, 85 flushleft, 43
tikzpicture, 115 flushright, 43
verbatim, 45, 89 \foldera, 113
verse, 44 \folderb, 113
vmatrix, 68 font, 123
eqnarray, 63 \footnotesize, 124
\eqref, 54 \Huge, 124
equation, 53 \huge, 124
LATEX, 54 \LARGE, 124
amsmath, 54 \Large, 124
multiple, 62 \large, 124
equation, 54, 55, 61, 63 \mathbf, 125
equation*, 54, 55, 61 \mathcal, 125
eurosym, 23 \mathit, 125
executive paper, 11 \mathnormal, 125
\exp, 58 \mathrm, 125
exponent, 56 \mathsf, 125
exscale, 12 \mathtt, 125
extension, 13 \normalsize, 124
.aux, 14 \scriptsize, 124
.cls, 14 \small, 124
.dtx, 13 \textbf, 124
.dvi, 14, 84 \textit, 124
.eps, 84 \textmd, 124
.fd, 14 \textnormal, 124
.idx, 14, 86 \textrm, 124
.ilg, 14 \textsc, 124
.ind, 14, 86 \textsf, 124
.ins, 14 \textsl, 124
.lof, 14 \texttt, 124
.log, 14 \textup, 124
.lot, 14 \tiny, 124
.sty, 13, 90 font encoding, 12
.tex, 8, 13 font encodings, 27
INDEX 151
LGR, 27 header, 13
OT1, 27 \headheight, 132
T1, 27, 32 textttheadings, 13
T2*, 32 \headsep, 132
T2A, 27, 32 Hebrew, 37
T2B, 27 \height, 134, 135
T2C, 27 \hline, 46
X2, 27 \hom, 58
font size, 123, 124 horizontal
fontenc, 12, 27, 32 brace, 57
fontspec, 35, 99 dots, 57
footer, 13 line, 57
\footnote, 41, 51 space, 129
\footnotesize, 124 \href, 95, 96, 98
\footskip, 132 \hspace, 121, 129
\frac, 59 \Huge, 124
fraction, 59 \huge, 124
fragile commands, 51 hyperref, 36, 91, 93, 94, 97, 98, 100
frame, 102 hypertext, 90
\framebox, 134 hyphen, 22
French, 28 hyphenat, 89
frenchb, 28 \hyphenation, 20
\frenchspacing, 32, 38
\frontmatter, 40 I
\frq, 29 \idotsint, 69
\frqq, 29 IEEEeqnarray, 61, 62, 64
\fussy, 20 \IEEEeqnarraymulticol, 65
\IEEEmulticol, 67
G \IEEEnonumber, 66
\gcd, 58 IEEEtrantools, 64
geometry, 89 \IEEEyesnumber, 67
German, 25, 29 \IEEEyessubnumber, 67
GhostScript, 9, 83, 139 ifpdf, 97
GhostView, 139 \ifpdf, 97
Gimp, 139 ifthen, 12
graphics, 10, 83 \ignorespaces, 121, 122
graphicx, 83, 93, 100 \ignorespacesafterend, 122
grave, 25 \iiiint, 69
Greek, 31, 36 \iiint, 69
Greek letters, 56 \iint, 69
grouping, 124 \include, 14, 15
\includegraphics, 84, 93, 97, 134
H \includeonly, 15
\hat, 58 \indent, 129
152 INDEX
indentfirst, 129 \large, 124

index, 86 \LaTeX, 21
\index, 86, 87 LATEX3, 4
\inf, 58 \LaTeXe, 21
\input, 15 latexsym, 12
input encodings latin1, 26
ansinew, 26 layout, 131
applemac, 26 layouts, 132
cp1251, 26, 34 \ldots, 24, 57
cp850, 26 \left, 60
cp866nav, 26 left aligned, 43
koi8-ru, 26, 32 \lefteqn, 63, 65
latin1, 26 \leftmark, 87, 89
macukr, 26 legal paper, 11
mn, 34 letter paper, 11
utf8, 26, 34 \lg, 58
input file, 7 LGR, 27
inputenc, 12, 26, 32 ligature, 24
\int, 60 \lim, 58
integral operator, 60 \liminf, 58
international, 24 \limsup, 58
italic, 124 line
\item, 42 horizontal, 57
itemize, 42 \line, 108, 113
line break, 19
J
line spacing, 127
Japanese, 38
\linebreak, 19
Jawi, 37
\linespread, 127
K \linethickness, 110, 111, 113
kashida, 37 \listoffigures, 50
Kashmiri, 37 \listoftables, 50
\ker, 58 \ln, 58
Knuth, Donald E., 1 \log, 58
koi8-ru, 26, 32 long equations, 61
Korean, 38 longtable, 47
kotex, 30 lscommand, 119
Kurdish, 37
M
L MacTeX, 138
\label, 41, 50, 54 macukr, 26
Lamport, Leslie, 2 \mainmatter, 40, 96
language, 24 \makebox, 134
\LARGE, 124 makeidx, 12, 86
\Large, 124 makeidx package, 86
INDEX 153
\makeindex, 86 \multiput, 107, 110

makeindex program, 86 multline, 61, 63
\maketitle, 40 multline*, 61
Malay, 37
\marginparpush, 132 N
\marginparsep, 132 \negmedspace, 66
\marginparwidth, 132 \newcommand, 69, 120, 121
margins, 131 \newenvironment, 121
math mode, 55 \newline, 19
math spacing, 69 \newpage, 19
\mathbb, 56 \newsavebox, 112
\mathbf, 125 \newtheorem, 71
\mathcal, 125 \noindent, 129
mathematical \nolinebreak, 19
accents, 57 \nombre, 28
delimiter, 60 \nonumber, 66
functions, 58 \nopagebreak, 19
minus, 22 \normalsize, 124
mathematics, 53 \not, 76
\mathit, 125 ntheorem, 72
\mathnormal, 125 numprint, 28
\mathrm, 125 O
mathrsfs, 79 oblivoir, 30
\mathsf, 125 \oddsidemargin, 132
mathtext, 32 , 25
\mathtt, 125 one column, 11
matrix, 68 option, 9
matrix, 68 optional parameters, 5
\max, 58 OT1, 27
\mbox, 21, 24, 134 Ottoman, 37
memoir, 30 \oval, 111, 113
METAPOST, 93 \overbrace, 57
mhchem, 70 overfull hbox, 20
microtype, 100 \overleftarrow, 58
MiKTEX, 138 \overline, 57
\min, 58 \overrightarrow, 58
minimal class, 10
minipage, 134 P
minus sign, 22 package, 7, 10, 119
Mittelbach, Frank, 2 packages
mn, 34 amsbsy, 71
modulo function, 58 amsfonts, 70, 79
\multicolumn, 47 amsmath, 53, 59, 60, 68, 69, 71
\multicolumns, 65 amssymb, 56, 70, 75
154 INDEX
amsthm, 71, 72 pgfplot, 118

arabxetex, 37 polyglossia, 3537
babel, 20, 25, 3235, 116 ppower4, 100
beamer, 100102, 105 prosper, 100
bicig, 33 pstricks, 109
bidi, 36, 37 pxfonts, 93
bm, 71 showidx, 87
booktabs, 48 syntonly, 12, 15
calc, 131 textcomp, 23
color, 100 tikz, 105, 115, 116
dcolumn, 47 txfonts, 93
doc, 12 verbatim, 6, 89
eepic, 109 xalx, 33
eurosym, 23 xeCJK, 38
exscale, 12 xepersian, 37
fancyhdr, 8789 xgreek, 36
fontenc, 12, 27, 32 page layout, 131
fontspec, 35, 99 page style, 13
frenchb, 28 empty, 13
geometry, 89 headings, 13
graphicx, 83, 93, 100 plain, 13
hyperref, 36, 91, 93, 94, 97, 98, \pagebreak, 19
100 \pageref, 41, 90
hyphenat, 89 \pagestyle, 13
IEEEtrantools, 64 paper size, 11, 91, 131
ifpdf, 97 \paperheight, 132
ifthen, 12 \paperwidth, 132
indentfirst, 129 \par, 124
inputenc, 12, 26, 32 paragraph, 17
kotex, 30 \paragraph, 39
latexsym, 12 parameter, 5
layout, 131 \parbox, 134
layouts, 132 parbox, 134
longtable, 47 \parindent, 128
makeidx, 12, 86 \parskip, 128
mathrsfs, 79 \part, 39
mathtext, 32 \partial, 59
memoir, 30 partial derivative, 59
mhchem, 70 Pashto, 37
microtype, 100 PDF, 90, 98
ntheorem, 72 pdfLATEX, 92, 100
numprint, 28 pdfLATEX, 91
oblivoir, 30 pdfTEX, 91
pgf, 105, 115, 118 PDFView, 138
INDEX 155
period, 23 R
Persian, 37 \raisebox, 135
pgf, 105, 115, 118 \ref, 41, 50, 90
pgfplot, 118 \renewcommand, 120
\phantom, 51, 70 \renewenvironment, 121
picture, 105, 106, 109, 110 report class, 10
piecewise function, 67 reserved characters, 5
placement specifier, 49 \right, 60, 67
plain, 13 right-aligned, 43
pmatrix, 68 \right., 60
\pmod, 58 \rightmark, 87, 89
polyglossia, 3537 roman, 124
\rule, 48, 121, 135, 136
Portugus, 27
Russian, 36
Portuguese, 27
PostScript, 3, 9, 51, 83, 84, 92, 97, S
100, 106, 137, 140 sans serif, 124
Encapsulated, 83, 93, 139 \savebox, 112
ppower4, 100 Scandinavian letters, 25
\Pr, 58 \scriptscriptstyle, 70
preamble, 7 \scriptsize, 124
prime, 58 \scriptstyle, 70
\printindex, 87 \sec, 58
proc class, 10 \section, 39, 51
\prod, 60 \sectionmark, 89
product operator, 60 \selectlanguage, 26
proof, 72 \setlength, 106, 128, 131
prosper, 100 \settodepth, 133
\protect, 51 \settoheight, 133
\providecommand, 121 \settowidth, 133
\ProvidesPackage, 123 \shorthandoff, 116
pstricks, 109 showidx, 87
\put, 107112 \sin, 58
pxfonts, 93 Sindhi, 37
single sided, 11
\sinh, 58
Q slanted, 124
\qbezier, 105, 107, 113 Slash, 22
\qedhere, 73, 74 \slash, 22
\qquad, 55, 69 slides class, 10
\quad, 55, 66, 69 \sloppy, 20
quotation, 44 \small, 124
quotation marks, 21 Small Caps, 124
quote, 44 \smallskip, 130
156 INDEX
\smash, 55 \textbf, 124

space, 4 \textcelsius, 23
spacing textcomp, 23
math mode, 55 \textdegree, 23
special character, 24 \texteuro, 23
\sqrt, 57 \textheight, 132
square brackets, 5 \textit, 124
square root, 57 \textmd, 124
\stackrel, 59 \textnormal, 124
\stretch, 121, 129 \textrm, 124
structure, 7 \textsc, 124
strut, 48 \textsf, 124
\subparagraph, 39 \textsl, 124
subscript, 56 \textstyle, 70
\subsection, 39 \texttt, 124
\subsectionmark, 89 \textup, 124
\substack, 60 \textwidth, 132
\subsubsection, 39 \tfrac, 59
\sum, 60 thebibliography, 85
sum operator, 60 \theoremstyle, 71
\sup, 58 \thicklines, 108, 111, 113
superscript, 56 \thinlines, 111, 113
syntonly, 12, 15 \thispagestyle, 13
tikz, 105, 115, 116
T tikzpicture, 115
T1, 27, 32 tilde, 22, 57
T2*, 32 tilde ( ~), 38
T2A, 27, 32 \tiny, 124
T2B, 27 title, 11, 40
T2C, 27 \title, 40
\tabcolsep, 47 \tnss, 120
table, 45 \today, 21
table, 49, 50 \topmargin, 132
table of contents, 39 \totalheight, 134, 135
\tableofcontents, 39 Turkish, 37
tabular, 45, 134 two column, 11
\tag, 54 txfonts, 93
\tan, 58
\tanh, 58 U
\TeX, 21 \ud, 69
TeXnicCenter, 139 Uighur, 37
\texorpdfstring, 97 umlaut, 25
text style, 53, 55 \underbrace, 57
\textbackslash, 5 underfull hbox, 20
INDEX 157
\underline, 42, 57 XETEX, 98

\unitlength, 106, 108 xgreek, 36
units, 129, 130 Xpdf, 91
upright, 124
Urdu, 37
URL link, 22
\usebox, 112
\usepackage, 10, 13, 23, 2527, 33,
123
\usetikzlibrary, 117
utf8, 26, 34
V
\vdots, 57
\vec, 58
\vector, 108
vectors, 58
\verb, 45
verbatim, 6, 89
verbatim, 45, 89
\verbatiminput, 89
verse, 44
vertical
dots, 57
vertical space, 130
Vmatrix, 68
vmatrix, 68
\vspace, 130
W
whitespace, 4
after commands, 5
at the start of a line, 4
\widehat, 58
\widetilde, 58
\width, 134, 135
Word, 87
WYSIWYG, 2, 3
X
X2, 27
xalx, 33
xeCJK, 38
XELATEX, 98
xepersian, 37

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The Not So Short

Version 5.06, June 20, 2016

Copyright 1995-2016 Tobias Oetiker and Contributors. All rights reserved.

Much of the material used in this introduction comes from an Austrian

The following individuals helped with corrections, suggestions and material

Eric Abrahamsen, Lenimar Nunes de Andrade, Eilinger August, Rosemary Bailey,

This introduction is split into 6 chapters:

Chapter 2 goes into the details of typesetting your documents. It explains

Chapter 3 explains how to typeset formulae with LATEX. Many examples

Chapter 4 explains indexes, bibliography generation and inclusion of EPS

Chapter 6 contains some potentially dangerous information about how to

If you have ideas for something to be added, removed or altered in this

Tobias Oetiker <[email protected]>

The current version of this document is available on

Thank you! iii

1 Things You Need to Know 1

2.4.1 Quotation Marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

3 Typesetting Mathematical Formulae 53

3.7 Spacing in Math Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

5 Producing Mathematical Graphics 105

6 Customising LATEX 119

A Installing LATEX 137

1.1 A Minimal LATEX File. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

4.1 Example fancyhdr Setup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

6.1 Example Package. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

1.1 Document Classes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

2.1 A bag full of Euro symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

3.1 Math Mode Accents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

3.19 AMS Miscellaneous. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

4.1 Key Names for graphicx Package. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

6.1 Fonts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Things You Need to Know

1.1 The Name of the Game

1.2.2 Layout Design

as a document has to be read and not hung up in a picture gallery, the

With WYSIWYG systems, authors often generate aesthetically pleasing

1.2.3 Advantages and Disadvantages

Professionally crafted layouts are available, which make a document

The typesetting of mathematical formulae is supported in a convenient

Users only need to learn a few easy-to-understand commands that

Even complex structures such as footnotes, references, table of contents,

LATEX encourages authors to write well-structured texts, because this

TEX, the formatting engine of LATEX 2 , is highly portable and free.

Although some parameters can be adjusted within a predefined docu-

It is very hard to write unstructured and disorganized documents.

Your hamster might, despite some encouraging first steps, never be

1.3 LATEX Input Files

It does not matter whether you

1.3.2 Special Characters

\# \$ \% \^{} \& \_ \{ \} \~{}

1.3.3 LATEX Commands

They start with a backslash \ and then have a name consisting of

New \TeX users may miss whitespaces

Some commands require a parameter, which has to be given between

You can \textsl{lean} on me! You can lean on me!

Please, start a new line

1.4 Input File Structure

1.5 A Typical Command Line Session