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Start with LaTeX basics
- What are TeX and LaTeX? Typesetting, documents and getting started
- Your first LaTeX document: source, compilation and PDF
- LaTeX math: inline equations, fractions, numbering and line breaks
- LaTeX tables: tabular columns, rows, rules and captions
- LaTeX line breaks and paragraphs: source newlines, \\ and blank lines
- LaTeX images: includegraphics, sizing, captions and references
- Desktop installation
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All topics
Text & formatting
- Font style commands
- Font size commands
- Emphasis (\emph)
- Underline & strikethrough (ulem/soul)
- Accents
- Quotes & dashes
- Punctuation & brackets
- Question & exclamation marks
- Automatically inserted spaces
- Writing Western text
- Text alignment (center / ragged / justified)
- Quotations (quote / quotation / csquotes)
- Tuning line breaks
- Tuning page breaks
- Drop caps (lettrine)
Mathematics
- LaTeX math: inline equations, fractions, numbering and line breaks
- Scripts & spacing
- Fractions, roots & exponents
- Sums, integrals & big operators
- Displayed, aligned & numbered equations
- Delimiters (\left \right)
- Matrices & arrays
- amsmath / AMSFonts
- mathtools
- Theorems & proofs (amsthm)
- Math alphabets (\mathbf, \mathbb, \mathcal)
- Log-like functions & mod
- Over/under decorations
- ISO/JIS math typesetting rules
- Typesetting algorithms
- physics / braket / tensor
- Commutative diagrams (tikz-cd / amscd)
- Math tricks