Tips and tools for managing LaTeX
Learning LaTeX
A full description of LaTeX literally takes a book. But, once you understand how it works, designing a LaTeX document is mainly a matter of patience. Dozens of websites are designed to educate new users, and, although some are outdated in various details, the basic structure has not changed over the years. LaTeX's consistency is strong enough that, with the examples given here, you should quickly understand what you are doing.
While you are learning LaTeX, it may be helpful to start each document by noting the formatting you will need and then bookmarking useful sites. Additional features, such as captions, tables, and bibliographies should be structurally consistent to those given, differing only in the resources summoned by the file [5].
If LaTex has a fault, it is that only an experienced user can hope to customize it completely. However, in most cases, its packages do most of the work for you. Almost always, the result is a professional, if unvaried design. Aficionados sometimes over-estimate LaTeX's ability to customize compared to LibreOffice Writer, but, in experienced hands, it is definitely more versatile than Microsoft Word or Google Docs.
Bruce Byfield
Bruce Byfield is a computer journalist and a freelance writer and editor specializing in free and open source software. Bruce's most recent book, Designing with LibreOffice, was released under a Creative Commons License in March 2016. You can buy or download his book at http://designingwithlibreoffice.com/download-buy/. In addition to his writing projects, he also teaches live and e-learning courses. In his spare time, Bruce writes about Northwest Coast art. You can read more of his work at http://brucebyfield.wordpress.com.
Infos
- LaTeX: http://www.latex-project.org/
- TeX editors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_TeX_editors
- LyX: http://www.lyx.org
- Document classes: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Document_Structure#Document_classes
- Getting to grips with LaTeX: http://www.andy-roberts.net/writing/latex/page_layout
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