LaTeX and Friends

LaTex has become the language of choice for scientists, engineers and other researchers and scholars who use advanced mathematics. After finishing this introduction, the reader should be able to typeset his or her first article....

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This handy reference describes techniques and tricks needed to illustrate LaTeX documents, and answers common user questions about graphics and PostScript fonts. It provides the first full description of the standard LaTeX color and graphics packages, and shows how you can combine TeX and PostScript capabilities to produce beautifully illustrated pages. Following the successful format of The LaTeX Companion, this new book will be an invaluable LaTeX resource for incorporating pictures into text. You will learn how to: *Incorporate graphic files into a LaTeX document *Program technical diagrams using several different languages *Produce color pictures *Achieve special effects with fragments of embedded PostScript *Make high-quality musical scores and ...