Book Image

LaTeX Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Stefan Kottwitz
Book Image

LaTeX Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Stefan Kottwitz

Overview of this book

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.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Writing Advanced Mathematics

LaTeX stands out for its excellent quality in typesetting formulas, making it the preferred software for mathematical writing. Beyond mathematics, LaTeX proves beneficial in various scientific fields reliant on complex formulas, which we will see in Chapter 11, Using LaTeX in Science and Technology.

The current chapter offers specific techniques for everyday math tasks. We assume readers possess a foundational knowledge of mathematical writing with LaTeX, but a brief tutorial is included to assist beginners. If you are already proficient in writing math, feel free to skip ahead.

This chapter covers the following topics:

  • Getting started
  • Fine-tuning a formula
  • Automatic line breaking in equations
  • Highlighting in a formula
  • Writing theorems and definitions
  • Drawing a commutative diagram
  • Plotting functions in two dimensions
  • Plotting in three dimensions
  • Drawing geometry pictures
  • Doing calculations

We’...