| DC Field | Value | Language |
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| dc.contributor.author | Datta, Dilip | - |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-04-22T05:41:41Z | - |
| dc.date.available | 2021-04-22T05:41:41Z | - |
| dc.date.issued | 2017 | - |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 978-3-319-47831-9 | - |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/279 | - |
| dc.description | The book, L A TEX in 24 Hours: A Practical Guide for Scientific Writing,
explains the basic L A TEX2ε required for writing scientific documents. Applications
of most of the discussed L A TEX syntax are presented in such a way that a reader
would be able to use them directly without any confusion, however maybe with
some minor modifications as per requirement. In many cases, multiple procedures
are presented for producing a single item. The main part of the book is stretched
over 276 pages dividing into 24 chapters, named as Hours. Hour 1 introduces
L A TEX, including how a L A TEX document is prepared and compiled. Various L A TEX
syntax required for fonts selection, texts and page formatting, items listing, table
preparation, figure insertion and drawing, equation writing, user-defined macros,
bibliography preparation, list of contents and index generation, and some other
miscellaneous issues are discussed in Hours 2–18. Hours 19 and 20 explain the
preparation of complete documents, such as letter, article, book, and report. Since a
work often needs to be presented to an audience, slide preparation is also explained
in Hours 21 and 22. Being an unavoidable fact, error and warning messages gen-
erated in different cases are discussed in Hour 23. Finally, some exercises are
included for learners in Hour 24. Further, L A TEX commands for producing different
symbols are presented in Appendix A.
I am thankful to my Ph.D. supervisor, Prof. Kalyanmoy Deb, Indian Institute of
Technology Kanpur, India (presently in Michigan State University, USA), from
whom I could learn many things about L A TEX. In fact, I was inspired to work with
L A TEX from him only. I am also thankful to my friend, Dr. Shamik Choudhury
(working in GE Capital, Bengaluru, India), who helped me in preparing and
compiling my very first L A TEX document. My special thanks are due to my better
half, Madhumita, and beloved daughters, Devoshree and Tanushree, from whom
I got continuous inspiration and support for writing the book. Finally, I am indebted
to my parents, late Paresh Chandra Datta and late Saraju Datta, whose blessings
have brought me to this height to be able to write a book. | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | The necessity for writing this book was felt long back, during my Ph.D. work, when
I saw students and researchers struggling with L A TEX for preparing their articles and
theses. A very limited number of books on L A TEX are available in markets. Of
course, a lot of resources on this subject can be obtained freely from the internet.
However, most of the books emphasize on detailed documentation of L A TEX, while
the internet-based resources are topic-specific. But people are either unable or not
interested to spare time, during their busy schedules of research works, to under-
stand and learn the detailed genotype of L A TEX covered in books, or to collect
materials from different websites. Instead, they prefer to get direct and concise
applications of various L A TEX syntax in a single window, which they can modify
easily, so as to get their works done in the least time and with the least effort. This is
the motivation for writing the book. The book has been prepared by following a
huge number of existing books and internet-based resources, as well as my personal
experience with L A TEX (but the Bibliographic list has been shortened referring only
to some famous resources). An attempt is made here to present materials in such a
way that, at least, a similar book can be produced using only this book. Using only
the raw version of this book, many of my students have already learned L A TEX
successfully up to the level of preparing articles and dissertations. Hence, I am
confident that the book would be able to cater to the needs of other students and
professionals also, who want to learn and use L A TEX in a short time. Suggestions for
any correction, modification, addition, or deletion will be highly appreciated (the
same may be mailed to ddatta@tezu.ernet.in, datta_dilip@rediffmail.com or ddat-
ta@iitkalumni.org | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Springer | en_US |
| dc.subject | Scientific Writing | en_US |
| dc.subject | A Practical Guide for Scientific Writing | en_US |
| dc.title | LATEX in 24 Hours | en_US |
| dc.title.alternative | A Practical Guide for Scientific Writing | en_US |
| dc.type | Book | en_US |
| Appears in Collections: | ARTS & SCIENCE
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