LaTeX Cookbook : Over 100 Practical, Ready-To-use LaTeX Recipes for Instant Solutions / Stefan Kottwitz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kottwitz, Stefan, (author).

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

LaTeX (Computer file).

Web typography.

Computer graphics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (424 pages)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, England : Packt Publishing Ltd., [2024]

Biography/History:

Kottwitz Stefan: Stefan Kottwitz studied mathematics in Jena and Hamburg. He works as a network and IT security engineer both for Lufthansa Industry Solutions and for Eurowings Aviation. For many years, he has been providing LaTeX support on online forums. He maintains the web forums LaTeX and goLaTeX and the Q&A sites TeXwelt and TeXnique. He runs the TeX graphics gallery sites TeXample, TikZ, and PGFplots, the TeXlive online compiler, the TeXdoc service, and the CTAN software mirror. He is a moderator of the TeX Stack Exchange site and matheplanet. He publishes ideas and news from the TeX world on his blogs LaTeX and TeX. Before this book, he authored the first edition of LaTeX Beginner's Guide in 2011, and LaTeX Cookbook in 2015, both published by Packt.

Summary:

The second edition of LaTeX Cookbook offers improved and additional examples especially for users in science and academia, with a focus on new packages for creating graphics with LaTeX. This edition also features an additional chapter on ChatGPT use to improve content, streamline code, and automate tasks, thereby saving time. This book is a practical guide to utilizing the capabilities of modern document classes and exploring the functionalities of the newest LaTeX packages. Starting with familiar document types like articles, books, letters, posters, leaflets, and presentations, it contains detailed tutorials for refining text design, adjusting fonts, managing images, creating tables, and optimizing PDFs. It also covers elements such as the bibliography, glossary, and index. You’ll learn to create graphics directly within LaTeX, including diagrams and plots, and explore LaTeX’s application across various fields like mathematics, physics, chemistry, and computer science. The book’s website offers online compilable code, an example gallery, and supplementary information related to the book, including the author’s LaTeX forum, where you can get personal support. By the end of this book, you’ll have the skills to optimize productivity through practical demonstrations of effective LaTeX usage in diverse scenarios.

Contents:

Cover

Copyright

Contributors

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: Exploring Various Document Classes

Preparing your LaTeX tools

Getting ready

See also

Writing a short text

How to do it...

How it works...

Developing a thesis

There's more...

Designing a book

Creating a presentation

Designing a CV

Writing a letter

Producing a leaflet

Building a large poster

Chapter 2: Tuning the Text

Improving justification and hyphenation

Adding margin notes

Converting numbers to words

Putting text into a colorful box

Visualizing the layout

Visualizing boxes of letters and symbols

Typesetting in a grid

Absolute positioning of text

Adding drop caps

Fitting text to a shape

Creating a pull quote

Chapter 3: Adjusting Fonts

Using standard font commands.

There's more...

Choosing a document font

Locally switching to a different font

Printing font tables

Importing just a single symbol of a font

Writing bold mathematical symbols

Getting sans-serif mathematics

Writing double-stroke letters like on a blackboard

Enabling the searching and copying of ligatures

Suppressing ligatures

Adding a contour

Chapter 4: Creating Tables

Designing a legible table

Positioning tables

There's more…

Merging cells

Splitting a cell diagonally

Adding footnotes to a table

Aligning numerical data

Coloring a table

Importing data from an external file

Chapter 5: Working with Images

Including images with optimal quality

Customizing images

Adding a frame to an image

Cutting an image to get rounded corners

How it works.

Shaping an image like a circle

Drawing over an image

How to do it…

Aligning images

Arranging images in a grid

Stacking images

Chapter 6: Creating Graphics

Building smart diagrams

Constructing a flowchart

Growing a tree

Building a bar chart

Drawing a pie chart

Drawing a Venn diagram

Putting thoughts into a mind map

Generating a timeline

Chapter 7: Creating Beautiful Designs

Adding a background image

Creating beautiful ornaments

Preparing pretty headings

Producing a calendar

Mimicking keys, menu items, and terminal output

Arranging topics like a puzzle

Building a word cloud

Chapter 8: Producing Contents, Indexes, and Bibliographies

Tuning tables of contents and lists of figures and tables

Creating a bibliography

There's more.

Adding a glossary

Creating a list of acronyms

Producing an index

Chapter 9: Optimizing PDF Files

Using hyperlinks

Adding metadata

Including copyright information

Inserting comments

Producing fillable forms

Optimizing the output for e-book readers

Removing white margins

Combining PDF files

Creating an animation

Chapter 10: Writing Advanced Mathematics

Getting started

Fine-tuning math formulas

Automatic line-breaking in equations

Highlighting in a formula

Stating definitions and theorems

Drawing commutative diagrams

Plotting functions in two dimensions

Plotting in three dimensions

Drawing geometry pictures

Doing calculations

Further learning.

Chapter 11: Using LaTeX in Science and Technology

Typesetting an algorithm

Printing a code listing

Programming with Lua

Creating graphs

Writing quantities with units

Drawing Feynman diagrams

Writing chemical formulas

Drawing molecules

Representing atoms

Drawing molecular orbital diagrams and atomic orbitals

Printing a customized periodic table of elements

Drawing electrical circuits

Chapter 12: Getting Support on the Internet

Exploring available LaTeX resources on the web

Utilizing web forums effectively

Crafting high-quality questions

Generating minimal working examples

Chapter 13: Using Artificial Intelligence with LaTeX

Getting started with ChatGPT

Getting answers to LaTeX questions

Improving your content

Generating code

Index

Other Books You May Enjoy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781835082294

1835082297

9781835080320

1835080324

OCLC:

1424938628