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LaTeX Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Stefan Kottwitz
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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)

Further learning

The previous chapters offered quick-start recipes, but in-depth reference manuals for mathematics with LaTeX exist. The amsmath manual is one such comprehensive resource, detailing the package extensively. Access it by typing texdoc amsmath at the command prompt or online via https://texdoc.net/pkg/amsmath.

For an even more comprehensive document, visit https://ctan.org/pkg/voss-mathmode.

We used TikZ a lot to visualize mathematics. The manual is available by typing texdoc tikz at the command prompt and at https://texdoc.org/pkg/tikz.

There’s a section in the TikZ example gallery with many example math drawings with complete code at https://texample.net/tikz/examples/area/mathematics.

Even more examples are at https://tikz.net/category/mathematics.

There’s a gallery for two-dimensional and three-dimensional plots with extensive math at https://pgfplots.net/tikz/examples/area/mathematics. I maintain the mentioned websites. If you have questions...