Using LaTeX to create technical documentation
If you need to use use LaTex to create technical documentation, here are some easy to follow instructions that are worth reading.
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In this series of articles I hope to show you how you can use LaTeX for technical documentation, if your output is PDF. It requires diving into the minutia of LaTeX packages, commands, options, arguments and so forth. You can start learning using the Quick Start Guide or jump over that and go directly to creating a documentation root file.
- Introduction
- About LaTeX
- Selecting a LaTeX distribution and editor
- LaTeX Quickstart
- Sample LaTeX file - Hello World
- LaTeX skeleton structure
- LaTeX commands overview
- LaTeX Project file structure
- LaTeX root file - main.tex
- Sample root file
- Selecting the Document Class
- Using Input-Include Commands
- Footnotes, widows and orphans
- Defining sectioning styles
- Numbering
- Creating LaTeX Stylesheets
- Adding and defining fonts
- Adding multi-lingual support
- Defining page size, margins and layout
- Customizing headers and footers
- Defining and using colours
- Warning, Note and Info Boxes
- Creating custom tables
- Formatting chapter sections
- Commands for font formatting and lists
- Inserting images
- Inserting code snippets
- Creating custom title page
- Generating output from a LaTeX project