More Math Into LaTeX

Great book to get you started with LaTex. It also serves as a good reference for learning new things once you are familiar with LaTex. However, I think I have had just as much success learning by using templates I found online or from colleagues.

If you're working on journal articles or a monograph using LaTeX, this is a great book. In particular, it serves two audiences quite well: newcomers to LaTeX who want a thorough and readable conceptual introduction, and more experienced LaTeX users who are ready to move beyond the basics.For my part, I had used LaTeX for a couple of years to do things like Beamer presentations when I needed technical slides. Then I started work on a monograph that needed a much more complete set of LaTeX features: table of contents, index, chapters, bibliography, and so forth.The core of this book is coverage of articles and books, so it's great for those. It does NOT pretend to be a systematic reference; there are a number of tables of symbols and the like, and an excellent index, but it's designed more to teach than to be purely a reference volume.Sure, you can find "the answer" to most LaTeX questions online -- but only if you know what to ask, and with no systematic presentation. This book helped give me a much more systematic perspective and saved me tremendous time with its tips and directions of where to look. It is also surprisingly readable, as much as a technical book can be. I find it enjoyable to flip through or take to the doctor's office and browse topics, and I always learn something.Finally, for anyone working on a book, this volume stands out for its very helpful (although brief) coverage of issues related to longer documents such as monographs: include, includeonly, indexing, and so forth. In addition to the core LaTeX functionality, it also briefly examines the Springer monograph class (which makes sense because it's a Springer book).Overall it's the most helpful of the few LaTeX books I have. Thanks to the author for the care to produce it!

This is a useful book for people who want to type-set mathematics papers and books without graphics and pictures. For those who want to include graphics and pictures, this is not the book. The section on hyperref (links to files, URL, bookmarks) is weak. The suggested package has limitations which the author did not mention except to say that "if none of these work, you are out of luck." The new chapter on presentation with baby beamer is a good addition. It is certainly easier to follow than the full-version of Beamer user's guide, which is available on-line. The book does have an excellent index, which makes finding specific topics easy. The appendix on installation of LaTex and other supporting packages is written in a style for beginners, who will surely appreciate it.

I have been using WordPerfect for many years to write papers full of complicated equations. However, I was required by a publisher to start writing in Latex, which I had never used. Grätzer's book got me up to speed within a few days. I'm now halfway proficient in Latex, but his book remains at my side for reference when I need a see how to compose some new bit of math I haven't used before. This is one of those rare books that are exactly, 100% what I needed to learn a somewhat complicated topic, and I just can't find anything to criticize. I highly recommend it to the new Latex user and to users who need a reference where they can see how to compose a particular bit to math.BTW, I am now converting many of my old WordPerfect documents into Latex. For that I first use the WP to Latex shareware converter put out by J. Fojtik. It isn't perfect, but it gets the process started. I then clean up the resulting *.tex file as needed using PCTeX software, which I find very convenient for debugging, importing figures, and such.

Most math majors today learn LaTeX in the classroom. I was hired to assist a professor of mathematics with his new job as editor of an academic math journal. I had a BA in English with a background in database management but I had never heard of LaTeX before I got the job. After I began working, my supervisor asked me to learn LaTeX. So I did with the help of this book. If you need to learn how to TeX mathematics and you are starting from scratch this book will take you from beginner to intermediate. The book is easy to understand and the lessons are a must if you are going to practice. Excellent book for beginners and a great place to begin learning LaTeX.

I suppose I should have been more careful about reading the title, as it is named MORE math into latex, not less. It is quite a fat book for its job. I knew LaTeX at one time, enough to write a decent math paper. But I wanted to get a SIMPLE book to refresh my memory and get me up to speed. I don't know who this book is written for. It's not concise at all. I wanted to get up to speed quickly in less than 100 pages, but it's much more verbose than that. For a technical book aimed at mathematicians, it is not very technically friendly as a reference. A lot of reading to get a little done. No thanks.

The title might mislead you into thinking that this book is an advanced treatise on the more obscure aspects of mathematical typesetting. It's not. Instead, this fine book serves as a comprehensive introduction to LaTeX, the most popular dialect of TeX, for those who've never used it before. If you're already familiar with TeX, then you can skip the first chapter and dive right into tutorials that are chock-full of useful nuggets.There are woefully few up-to-date books for those of us (academics, mostly) learning TeX in the 21st century. There are plenty of websites, to be sure, but some of us still crave the ease and reliability of a solid paper reference. This is the only book on TeX that you will ever need.

The primary reason I've come across for people starting to use LaTeX is for typesetting maths - Microsoft Word has certainly got better at formatting complicated equations in recent times, but it can still be finicky to use (for example, a work around is needed to get in-line equation editing). This book is good for anyone in that situation - it goes through all the essentials for maths intensive writing, with plenty of examples to get you writing documents quickly. Indeed, many of the examples take the form of complete documents - perfect as a template for your own needs. Alongside that, the book forms a generally comprehensive overview of using LaTeX.The book doesn't claim to be a total solution for all your LaTeX needs; it is there to teach. However there is a great index, and useful tables of syntax which have made this book one of the go to LaTeX books on my bookshelf.

This is probably the best LaTeX reference to have, and you can rely on any of Graetzer's books. However, do not count on this being your only LaTeX book. Graetzer refers to all of the other LaTeX classics in his large bibliography, and often to save space he refers to them without citing what is actually there. So you may find that you need additional books if you want to explore all of the ways of doing a particular task.1011::1000

I purchased this book when I switched from MS Word to LaTeX with the hope of getting a good guide to start with. I wish I just started with trial-error instead of spending my cash on this book.Here is the trick: to learn LaTeX you have to find some template documents and practice yourself. A book gives no help because by just reading you will never be able to play around with fonts, numbering and equations. Furthermore, this book is not able to answer your specific questions, especially because in the beginning you do not even know what question to ask in LaTeX terms, so by googling your problem you are far better off. The LaTeX community is huge and there are tons of free online sources available that are reliable and updated regularly.Last but not least, do not forget that LaTeX is open source (free), so this book is only a rip off. Just download a suitable LaTeX distribution to your computer, jump to wikibooks and find templates. Spend your money on something else.