Product Description

Just a few years ago, LaTeX set TeX users free. LaTeX liberated them from mundane chores such as formatting and equation numbering, allowing writers to concentrate instead on the document content. Now, to help those who wish to take an extra step beyond the structures imposed by LaTeX, author J. Kenneth Shultis presents a collection of proven tricks, techniques, and recipes for harnessing the full potential afforded by this powerful typesetting program.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1568673 in Books
• Published on: 1994-02-05
• Format: Facsimile
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

From the Publisher
A guide for engineers and scientists who are currently using Latex, this volume provides recipes and tricks--including shortcuts and extensions not found elsewhere--for the most useful operation of Latex for preparing technical documents. It is especially addressed to the needs of those who have mastered the basics of Latex and who are ready to venture off the main Latex highway to explore some of the less travelled paths afforded by this powerful typesetting program. Covers the full range of Latex topics--fonts, text formatting and lists, formatting pages, math and equations, tables, graphics, large documents, useful styles, macros and miscellaneous tricks.

From the Back Cover
A guide for engineers and scientists who are currently using LATEX, this volume provides recipes and tricks--including shortcuts and extensions not found elsewhere--for the most useful operation of LATEX for preparing technical documents. It is especially addressed to the needs of those who have mastered the basics of LATEX and who are ready to venture off the main LATEX highway to explore some of the less travelled paths afforded by this powerful typesetting program. Covers the full range of LATEX topics--fonts, text formatting and lists, formatting pages, math and equations, tables, graphics, large documents, useful styles, macros and miscellaneous tricks. For engineers and scientists who are currently using LATEX as a text programming language.

About the Author

J. Kenneth Shultis, (Ph.D., University of Michigan) is currently Black and Veatch Distinguished Professor, Department of Nuclear Engineering, Kansas State University where he teaches and conducts research in neutron and radiative transport, reactor physics, numerical analysis, particle combustion, remote sensing, and utility energy and economic analyses. The recipient of several awards for teaching excellence, Dr. Shultis is the co-author of Principles of Radiation Shielding and Radiological Assessment: Sources and Exposures (both Prentice Hall) and over 200 research papers and reports. He has served as a consultant to many private and governmental organizations.

Customer Reviews

Outstanding book of hints and tips
I bought this book in 1996 when I entered graduate school and have utilised it as a reference while writing all my research papers as well as my dissertation. I also have "The LaTeX Companion" by Goossens et al., but this book is much more useful to me. At about 170 pages, it crams everything you need into a very short amount of space, including info on fonts, tables, math, formatting, etc. The chapter on large documents was invaluable to me when I was preparing my dissertation. Furthermore, the last chapter has a number of cool macros that have come in pretty handy.

Note that this is not a beginner's book on LaTeX, nor does it exhaustively show all the extremely cool bells and whistles that LaTeX can do; this book serves as a concise reference and list of hints and tips for using the key markups. When I write a paper, I like to concentrate on the actual content I'm writing about rather than how to format the text. However, when I do need to format text just right, I turn to this book, and it has never let me down.

This 1994 V1.4 Supports LaTeX and not current LaTeX2e
I did not purchase this kindle release ebook because its content is so old; since I looked at the sample kindle book preview and what it presented about the publishing date. But, if your new to LaTeX2e typesetting; it follows, this books most-likley has some value for understanding how 'document markup language' works yesterday similar to as it still works today and LaTeX is updated each year.

Don't Typeset Without It
Lots of details on how to tweak LaTeX.

This book is where I first look if I have a Latex problem - extremely useful.