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LaTeX Beginner's Guide

LaTeX Beginner's Guide

By : Stefan Kottwitz
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LaTeX Beginner's Guide

LaTeX Beginner's Guide

4.7 (23)
By: Stefan Kottwitz

Overview of this book

LaTeX is high-quality open source typesetting software that produces professional prints and PDF files. It's a powerful and complex tool with a multitude of features, so getting started can be intimidating. However, once you become comfortable with LaTeX, its capabilities far outweigh any initial challenges, and this book will help you with just that! The LaTeX Beginner's Guide will make getting started with LaTeX easy. If you are writing mathematical, scientific, or business papers, or have a thesis to write, this is the perfect book for you. With the help of fully explained examples, this book offers a practical introduction to LaTeX with plenty of step-by-step examples that will help you achieve professional-level results in no time. You'll learn to typeset documents containing tables, figures, formulas, and common book elements such as bibliographies, glossaries, and indexes, and go on to manage complex documents and use modern PDF features. You'll also get to grips with using macros and styles to maintain a consistent document structure while saving typing work. By the end of this LaTeX book, you'll have learned how to fine-tune text and page layout, create professional-looking tables, include figures, present complex mathematical formulas, manage complex documents, and benefit from modern PDF features.
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Designing headings

In Chapter 2, Formatting Text and Creating Macros, we encountered the problem of customizing headings. There has to be a consistent way to modify the font of headings, their spacing, and their numbering for the whole document. Fortunately, there's a handy package for that, and it's called titlesec. We shall use it now to design chapter and section headings.

We'll return to the example that we used in this chapter. Our goal is to create headings with this appearance:

  • Centered titles
  • Smaller font size
  • Less space above and below
  • With a sans serif font, which is a good choice for bold headings

Let's start:

  1. Open the preamble.tex file, which we have already used in this chapter. Insert this line to load the titlesec package:
    \usepackage{titlesec}
  2. Add this command to specify the layout and font of the chapter headings:
    \titleformat{\chapter}[display]
      {\normalfont\sffamily\Large\bfseries\centering...

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