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LaTeX Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

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Published in Oct 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801078658

Pages 354 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

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Author (1):

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

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Exploring the wealth of math symbols

Let's go beyond writing variables and basic math operators. We may need many symbols for particular purposes: relation signs, unary and binary operators, function-like operators, sum and integral symbols and variants of the latter, arrows, and many more. LaTeX and additional packages offer thousands of symbols for many purposes.

So, let's look at some math symbols and the commands for producing them. We shall cover many standard LaTeX symbols; the latexsym package provides some additional symbols. Even more symbols are accessible using, for instance, the amssymb package.

Binary operation symbols

Besides plus and minus, there are a few more operations:

Figure 9.19 – Binary operation symbols

You need to have \usepackage{latexsym} in your document preamble to be able to use the symbols in the last row here.

Binary relation symbols

Values of expressions might be equal, in which case you just need...

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Authors (1)

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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