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Summary: Samples are just what I need
Review: Sometimes when I tex I just need some examples where I can see the outcome and the tex commands that produced them. This book has plenty such things, and therefore very helpful in that respect. When it comes to computer related stuff, I guess I learn best by looking at what's been done and modifying them to produce what I want. If you're that way too, this book would be very helpful.It also has some helpful suggestions for texing so that trouble shooting would be easier later on.
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Summary: not detailed enough
Review: This book is far from being complete. The author avoids to give many details and often refers to another books, such as "The LaTeX Companion" instead. I had to consult other sources very often. Almost everything is explained through examples. It's good for the first encounter with LaTeX, but there is no place left for detailed description of commands. Also, there is a plenty of tutorials for the beginners available for download from the Internet for free.
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Summary: Key Features and Reviews
Review: This book is for the mathematician, physicist, engineer, scientist, or technical typist who needs to quickly learn how to write and typeset articles and books containing mathematical formulas, and requires a thorough reference book on all aspects of LaTeX and the AMS packages, the enhancements to LaTeX by the American Mathematical Society. Key features inlcude: · A simple, example-based, visual approach · A quick introduction (Part I) allowing readers to type their first articles in only a few hours · Sample articles to demonstrate the basic structure of LaTeX and AMS articles · Useful appendices containing mathematical and text symbol tables and information on how to convert to standard LaTeX from older versions of LaTeX and AMS-LaTeX New features of the Third Edition include: · Coverage of AMS packages, version 2.0 · A new chapter on writing books in LaTeX · A new part, Math and the Web, covers where to find useful LaTeX-related information on the Internet and how to publish LaTeX documents on the Web From reviews of the previous two editions: "This book is a very helpful and useful tool for all scientists and engineers having to do with mathematical type-setting and the use of LaTeX, especially for scientific papers, and who don't want to spend an enormous time and computer memory to do this in other commercial word processing programs." --Reviews of Astronomical Tools "Writing a sufficiently long math text (lecture notes, monographs) by a non-expert TeX writer wanting to produce a text of good typographical quality requires the use of a well-documented package. Grätzer's book is a solution." --EMS Newsletter "Can be recommended both as a very good introductory text for beginners as well as a handy up-to-date LaTeX reference for experienced users." --Mathematical Reviews
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Summary: A highly recommended tutorial and reference to LaTeX
Review: To write a mathematics formula intensive article or thesis, one has two possibilities: either using a MS-Word-like software, or using LaTeX. There is no doubt: even if LaTeX made documents have a much more professional aspect, the use of this typesetting package is not so trivial! Hence, unlike traditional word processing software, a companion textbook is essential. Among the documentation available (for free) on the web, or other textbooks I went thru at the library, I found "Math into LaTeX" the most valuable introduction and reference book to LaTeX. I have to say that I bought it because once at the bookstore, among the books available on the shelf, it appears to me to be the one with the best price-quality ratio (it is extremely nicely crafted... and made with LaTeX). Once at home, the beginner I was finely understood the philosophy associated with this typesetting package, and at last, I was able to write the 3-page document I wanted. Now I consider I have become an *intermediate* user of LaTeX, and this book is still the one I put on the back burner; it realy constitute the concise and ergonomic reference I wanted. To conclude, perhaps the most valuable outcomes of this book are the rules and tips given all along the pages by Gratzer. If you follow them, I ensure you will proceed efficiently.
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Summary: A highly recommended tutorial and reference to LaTeX
Review: To write a mathematics formula intensive article or thesis, one has two possibilities: either using a MS-Word-like software, or using LaTeX. There is no doubt: even if LaTeX made documents have a much more professional aspect, the use of this typesetting package is not so trivial! Hence, unlike traditional word processing software, a companion textbook is essential. Among the documentation available (for free) on the web, or other textbooks I went thru at the library, I found "Math into LaTeX" the most valuable introduction and reference book to LaTeX. I have to say that I bought it because once at the bookstore, among the books available on the shelf, it appears to me to be the one with the best price-quality ratio (it is extremely nicely crafted... and made with LaTeX). Once at home, the beginner I was finely understood the philosophy associated with this typesetting package, and at last, I was able to write the 3-page document I wanted. Now I consider I have become an *intermediate* user of LaTeX, and this book is still the one I put on the back burner; it realy constitute the concise and ergonomic reference I wanted. To conclude, perhaps the most valuable outcomes of this book are the rules and tips given all along the pages by Gratzer. If you follow them, I ensure you will proceed efficiently.
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