LaTeX: Line by Line

The pages relating to the second edition of my book LaTeX Line by Line [Chichester, Wiley, 1999] are currently being written. I am sorry that they are not yet complete, but my book was published sooner than I thought it would be. If you cannot find what you are looking for here, then please email me (A.R.Diller@cs.bham.ac.uk) and I will try to help you as soon as possible.

Chapter 2: Getting Started

In this chapter I explain how a LaTeX input file is organised. A copy of the example file used is available as are variants of it obtained by making the modifications described in the text.

vamp.tex (Fig. 2.1 on p. 8)
vamp2.tex (vamp.tex with modifications mentioned on p. 13)
vamp3.tex (vamp.tex with modifications mentioned on p. 19)

Chapter 4: List-like Environments

In this chapter LaTeX's various list-like environments are described.

quote (p. 31)
quotation (p. 32)
verse (p. 33)
flushright (p. 34)
center (p. 34)
flushleft (p. 34)
itemize (p. 35)
enumerate (example p. 36)
enumerate (example p. 37)
description (first example p. 38)
description (second example p. 38)
thebibliography (top part of Fig. 4.1 on p. 39)
thebibliography (top part of Fig. 4.2 on p. 40)
definition (p. 41)
definition (pp. 41-42)
common (p. 42)
post (p. 42)
prop (p. 43)
prop (p. 44)
list (p. 45)
list (pp. 45-46)
list (p. 46)
definition of popper (p. 47)
use of popper (p. 47)

Chapter 5: Boxes and Tables

The examples used in this chapter are available as follows:

minipage environment (p. 51)
tabular environment (pp. 52-53)
\multicolumn command (p. 54)
\shortstack command (p. 55)
tabular environment (Fig. 5.2 on p. 57)
table environment (pp. 59-60)
tabbing environment (p. 63)
tabbing environment (p. 64, top right)
tabbing environment (p. 64, top left)
tabbing environment (p. 64, bottom)
tabbing environment (p. 65)
verbatim environment (p. 66)

Chapter 6: Making Bibliographies

The examples used in this chapter are available as follows:

example BibTeX entry (p. 67)
sample bib file (Fig. 6.1 on p. 70)
example BibTeX entry (p. 74)
sample input file (top of Fig. 6.2 on p. 76)

Chapter 8: Standard Document Classes

The sample letter used in this chapter is available as follows:

sample input file (Fig. 8.5 on p. 97)

Chapter 12: Simple Diagrams

sample input (p. 143)
sample input (p. 148)
sample input (p. 150)
sample input (p. 152)
sample input (p. 153)
sample input (p. 154)
sample input (p. 155)
sample input (p. 156)

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