As announced a week ago, the ebook version of “LaTeX Beginner’s Guide” written by me is available for free download today, March 4, 2015.
There’s some background information on LaTeX-Community.org and specifically in a forum thread, and also here on this blog.
I will answer any question to the book’s contents in the LaTeX Community forum. Experts: our forum also needs your help, perhaps have a look at the unanswered questions. Are you able to answer one, even if it’s older? Orginal poster and later readers would be happy!
Some details, simply copied from what I provided to the publisher earlier:
About This Book
- Use LaTeX’s powerful features to produce professionally designed texts
- Install LaTeX; download, set up, and use additional styles, templates, and tools
- Typeset math formulas and scientific expressions to the highest standards
- Include graphics and work with figures and tables
- Benefit from professional fonts and modern PDF features
Who This Book Is For
If you are about to write mathematical or scientific papers, seminar handouts, or even plan to write a thesis, then this book offers you a fast-paced and practical introduction. Particularly during studying in school and university you will benefit much, as a mathematician or physicist as well as an engineer or a humanist. Everybody with high expectations who plans to write a paper or a book will be delighted by this stable software.
What You Will Learn
- Install LaTeX and use the TeXworks editor to compile documents
- Design the page layout; create dynamic headers and footers
- Fine-tune appearances and the space of words, symbols, and lines
- Apply intelligent justification and customized hyphenation to achieve fine text design
- Typeset professional-looking tables and create bulleted and enumerated lists
- Write sophisticated math formulas, from in-text expressions to complex multi-line equations with various alignments
- Cross-reference objects such as figures, tables, and equations
- Load fonts and vary their shape and style; choose between thousands of LaTeX symbols from specialized fonts
- Use macros to save time and effort; load packages to extend LaTeX’s capabilities
- Generate an index, cite books, and create bibliographies
- Use external pictures, color, PDF bookmarks, and hyperlinks
- Structure and manage large documents by splitting the input
- Manage large documents containing lists, index, and bibliography
More details, including table of contents and sample chapter: Publisher’s LaTeX book page.
How to download it without registration?
If it’s not worth telling a name and a mail address (could be a second, unimportant free address), don’t take this offer. The publisher did not change the webshop to anonymous access just because they made 0,00 that day. The publisher hopes for some new customers in the future by such a promotion, registering may help that a user might return.
I tried; the book was not available for free download on the site. Some other book was.
Sorry that you missed the date. The publisher allowed only a single day of the free giveaway of the book. If you would still like to get the boo, see my post below, what I answered chejnik, and contact me if you like.
hi, the book was not available for free download on the site.
The header in the image reads “Available for 24 hours only – Mar 4th” — the offer expired at March 5 00:00 UTC.
…How to download it without registration?
Thank you very much for providing us with the book for free.
I was really surprised by this post and so I surprised other users on our Q&A site at:
http://qa.parsilatex.com/5056
Thanks Vahid! Some other bloggers posted it too, so hopefully many LaTeX friends got it.
It was a great chance, thank you. I missed it this time.
Sorry to hear that you missed it! I cannot simply give a copy, because making a copy for somebody else is not legal. Don’t know if there’s an internal mark who bought or downloaded a book, so I cannot simply copy my ebook, possibly getting problems with the publisher.
Sometimes the publisher provides also single book copies for promotion. For example, if somebody would write a blog post or article about a related topic with mentioning of the book to satisfy the publisher’s marketing people.
If anybody would be interested, let me know, such as by email or contact form.
I’ve bought this book. Can I get the ebook for free?
hi, the book was not available for free download on the site.