Table of Contents

List of Figures xviii
List of Tables xix
Foreword xxi
Preface xxiii

Chapter 1: Introduction 1
1.1 A brief history (of nearly half a century) 1
1.2 Today's systems 8
1.3 Working with this book 13

Chapter 2: The Structure of a LaTeX Document 21
2.1 The overall structure of a source file 22
2.2 Sectioning commands 32
2.3 Table of contents structures 54
2.4 Managing references 75
2.5 Document source management108

Chapter 3: Basic Formatting Tools -- Paragraph Level 119
3.1 Shaping your paragraphs 120
3.2 Dealing with special characters 147
3.3 Generated or specially formatted text 154
3.4 Various ways of highlighting and quoting text 177
3.5 Footnotes, endnotes, and marginals 204
3.6 Support for document development 237

Chapter 4: Basic Formatting Tools -- Larger Structures 253
4.1 Lists 254
4.2 Simulating typed text 296
4.3 Lines and columns 333
4.4 Generating sample texts 361

Chapter 5: The Layout of the Page 365
5.1 Geometrical dimensions of the layout 366
5.2 Changing the layout 368
5.3 Dynamic page data: page numbers and marks 385
5.4 Page styles 395
5.5 Page decorations and watermarks 409
5.6 Visual formatting 414
5.7 Doing layout with class 429

Chapter 6: Tabular Material 431
6.1 Standard LaTeX environments 432
6.2 array -- Extending the tabular environments 437
6.3 Calculating column widths 446
6.4 Multipage tabular material 456
6.5 Color in tables 466
6.6 Customizing table rules and spacing 467
6.7 Other extensions 476
6.8 Footnotes in tabular material 491
6.9 keyvaltable -- Separating table data and formatting 494
6.10 tabularray -- Late breaking news 504

Chapter 7: Mastering Floats 505
7.1 An overview of LaTeX's float concepts 506
7.2 Float placement control 519
7.3 Extensions to LaTeX's float concept 528
7.4 Controlling the float caption 538
7.5 Key/value approaches for floats and subfloats 560

Chapter 8: Graphics Generation and Manipulation 575
8.1 LaTeX's image loading support 576
8.2 Manipulating graphical objects in LaTeX 587
8.3 Producing (fairly) portable line graphics 602
8.4 Flexible boxes for multiple purposes 614
8.5 tikz -- A general-purpose graphics system 631

Chapter 9: Font Selection and Encodings 647
9.1 Introduction 648
9.2 Understanding font characteristics 652
9.3 Using fonts in text 658
9.4 Using fonts in math 676
9.5 Standard LaTeX font support 683
9.6 fontspec -- Font selection for Unicode engines 705
9.7 The low-level NFSS interface 730
9.8 Setting up new fonts for NFSS 740
9.9 LaTeX's encoding models 754

Bibliography 777
Index of Commands and Concepts 793
People 943

Author

Frank Mittelbach is the lead author of The LaTeX Companion, Third Edition, and is series editor of Addison-Wesley's Tools and Techniques for Computer Typesetting series. He is also technical lead of the LaTeX Project and, along with overseeing the original major release of LaTeX2_e in 1994, he has overseen the 36 subsequent releases of this software. Frank is author or coauthor of several books and of many and varied LaTeX extension packages, such as AMS-LaTeX, doc, multicol, and NFSS: the New Font Selection Scheme. He is on the board of the International Gutenberg Society, an international association for the study of the history and development of printing technology and font-oriented media, where he focuses on the more recent period. He is currently leading a multi-year project for automatically producing tagged and accessible PDF output from LaTeX.

Ulrike Fischer lives with her husband in Bonn, Germany. After studying mathematics at the University of Bonn, Ulrike became interested in the internal handling of fonts and in chess typesetting. With the help of the first edition of The LaTeX Companion, she wrote at the chessfss package, which allows users to choose between various chess fonts, and other chess-related packages. She joined the LaTeX Project after the TUG meeting in Rio de Janeiro, where she presented her package tagpdf to create tagged PDFs to the team members. Together with other members of the LaTeX Project she now maintains various packages including luaotfload, hyperref, xcolor, the new LaTeX PDF management code and more.