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

Adding captions to tables

Especially with longer text, we would like to add captions and numbers to our tables. Numbering the tables allows easy referencing, whereas captions add information and tell the reader what the table is about. LaTeX has built-in features to achieve that.

Now it's time to complete our table. We shall list the remaining font commands. We'll use the first column to describe the category of the font commands: family, weight, shape, and so on. Then, we will add another column to show the effect of combining font commands.

To finish, we shall center the table and provide a number and a caption. To do that, we will put a table environment around our example table, use \centering inside it, and insert a \caption command at the end of the table environment. We will add more font commands and add another column at the right, containing more examples. Let's break it down into the following steps:

  1. Start with the document's article class...
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