This repository contains PDF and LaTeX source of Electronic Document Preparation Pocket Primer by Vít Novotný.
With the advent of the digital age, typesetting has become available to virtually anyone equipped with a personal computer. Beautiful text documents can now be crafted using free and consumer-grade software, which often obviates the need for the involvement of a professional designer and typesetter. The level playing field of the Internet coupled with the rising popularity of digital-only documents then allows the author to bypass the publisher as well, if they so wish, without jeopardizing their chance of recognition.
This aim of this book is to provide a general overview of the tools and techniques tied with writing, designing, typesetting, and distributing text documents—one of the principal means of knowledge preservation and transfer known to man. Each chapter describes one discrete step of document preparation along with practical examples and references to literature for those interested in further study.
The chapters are filled with examples that illustrate the subject matter. These should be consulted whenever the concepts described in the text are unclear to the reader. Although care was taken not to favor any computing environment, some examples feature utilities for Unix and Unix-like operating systems. These utilities may or may not have a suitable counterpart in operating systems such as Windows; To try the corresponding examples out, the reader is advised to install a free Unix-like environment—such as Cygwin for Windows—on their computer.
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