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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

Creating a table of contents

A book commonly begins with a table of contents, so let's create one based on our numbered headings:

  1. In our previous document, let's remove the options landscape and twocolumn.
  2. Remove the setspace package, that is, delete this line:
    \usepackage[onehalfspacing]{setspace} 
  3. Add the command \tableofcontents right after \begin{document}.

    Our code shall now look like this:

    \documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{book}
    \usepackage[english]{babel}
    \usepackage{blindtext}
    \usepackage[a4paper, inner=1.5cm, outer=3cm, top=2cm,
    bottom=3cm, bindingoffset=1cm]{geometry}
    \begin{document}
    \tableofcontents
    \chapter{Exploring the page layout}
    In this chapter we will study the layout of pages.
    \section{Some filler text}
    \blindtext
    \section{A lot more filler text}
    More dummy text will follow.
    \subsection{Plenty of filler text}
    \blindtext[10]
    \end{document}
  4. Compile the code twice. Afterward, the first page of your output will contain this table:
...
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