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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)

Automatic line-breaking in equations

Typically, we meticulously design formulas, especially in multiline equations, manually selecting optimal breakpoints and alignment positions. However, envision a lengthy chain of calculations, like those found in proofs or mathematical assignments. It would be incredibly beneficial if LaTeX could automatically wrap displayed formulas the way it handles regular text. And indeed, it’s achievable.

How to do it...

The breqn package is specifically crafted for this precise purpose. This recipe will illustrate its functionality. We’ll employ the beamer class because seminar slides typically have space limitations. Follow these steps:

  1. Specify the document class:
    \documentclass[12pt]{beamer}
  2. As the beamer class uses sans-serif math font by default, we switch to the serif math font as in regular documents:
    \usefonttheme[onlymath]{serif}
  3. Load the breqn package:
    \usepackage{breqn}
  4. Begin the document and a frame for a presentation...