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LaTeX Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

You're reading from  LaTeX Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

Product type Book
Published in Oct 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801078658
Pages 354 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Stefan Kottwitz Stefan Kottwitz
Profile icon Stefan Kottwitz

Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Getting Started with LaTeX 2. Chapter 2: Formatting Text and Creating Macros 3. Chapter 3: Designing Pages 4. Chapter 4: Creating Lists 5. Chapter 5: Including Images 6. Chapter 6: Creating Tables 7. Chapter 7: Using Cross-References 8. Chapter 8: Listing Contents and References 9. Chapter 9: Writing Math Formulas 10. Chapter 10: Using Fonts 11. Chapter 11: Developing Large Documents 12. Chapter 12: Enhancing Your Documents Further 13. Chapter 13: Troubleshooting 14. Chapter 14: Using Online Resources 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Including an image

For including images, the standard package is called graphicx. The x in the name means it's extending the original, but outdated, graphics package.

We will create a short document, and between two paragraphs, we would like to insert a picture. We can do so with the help of the following steps:

  1. Begin a new document and load babel and blindtext to print some filler text, as follows:
    \documentclass[a5paper]{article}
    \usepackage[english]{babel}
    \usepackage{blindtext}
    \usepackage{graphicx}
    \pagestyle{empty}
    \begin{document}
    \section{Including a picture}
    \blindtext
  2. Open a figure environment and declare \centering, as follows:
    \begin{figure}
      \centering
  3. Use the \includegraphics command with the filename as the argument. We will use example-image as the filename since that's a sample image included with TeX Live. The code is illustrated in the following snippet:
      \includegraphics[width=4cm]{example-image}
  4. Set a caption...
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