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Stefan Kottwitz
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Stefan Kottwitz

Stefan Kottwitz studied mathematics in Jena and Hamburg. He works as a network and IT security engineer both for Lufthansa Industry Solutions and for Eurowings Aviation. For many years, he has been providing LaTeX support on online forums. He maintains the web forums LaTeX and goLaTeX and the Q&A sites TeXwelt and TeXnique. He runs the TeX graphics gallery sites TeXample, TikZ, and PGFplots, the TeXlive online compiler, the TeXdoc service, and the CTAN software mirror. He is a moderator of the TeX Stack Exchange site and matheplanet. He publishes ideas and news from the TeX world on his blogs LaTeX and TeX. Before this book, he authored the first edition of LaTeX Beginner's Guide in 2011, and LaTeX Cookbook in 2015, both published by Packt.
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Setting labels and references

To be able to refer to a certain point, we have to mark it with a label. The name of that label will serve us afterward for referencing.

We will now typeset a list of the most used packages for papers, according to a survey on https://latex.org. Through the \label command, we will mark items that we can later refer to with the \ref command, as shown here:

  1. Create a new book document:
    \documentclass{book}
    \begin{document}
  2. Start a chapter and a section, and place a label for this section:
    \chapter{Statistics}
    \section{Most used packages by LaTeX.org users}
    \label{sec:packages}
  3. Continue with some text, including a footnote:
    The Top Five packages, used by LaTeX.org
    members\footnote{according to the 2021 survey on
    LaTeX.org\label{fn:project}}:
  4. Write an enumerated list and put a label on a few items for referring to them:
    \begin{enumerate}
      \item graphicx\label{item:graphicx}
      \item babel
      \item amsmath\label...
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Stefan Kottwitz

Stefan Kottwitz studied mathematics in Jena and Hamburg. He works as a network and IT security engineer both for Lufthansa Industry Solutions and for Eurowings Aviation. For many years, he has been providing LaTeX support on online forums. He maintains the web forums LaTeX and goLaTeX and the Q&A sites TeXwelt and TeXnique. He runs the TeX graphics gallery sites TeXample, TikZ, and PGFplots, the TeXlive online compiler, the TeXdoc service, and the CTAN software mirror. He is a moderator of the TeX Stack Exchange site and matheplanet. He publishes ideas and news from the TeX world on his blogs LaTeX and TeX. Before this book, he authored the first edition of LaTeX Beginner's Guide in 2011, and LaTeX Cookbook in 2015, both published by Packt.
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