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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)

Highlighting in a formula

In intricate formulas or equations, emphasizing a specific part can be incredibly useful. Methods such as color highlighting or framing can effectively achieve this emphasis and are particularly beneficial in presentations where altering the highlighted area per frame helps explain the content.

To test the effectiveness of these methods beyond simple basic math, we’ll tackle more complex material using the amsmath matrices. We aim to illustrate a matrix transposition by highlighting submatrices and incorporating arrows.

How to do it...

We will use the TikZ graphics package for this. Such a comprehensive package initially seems hefty for this purpose. However, its versatility in providing consistent styles and enabling a wide range of graphical functionalities makes it an ideal choice.

Let’s dive into an example, breaking down each step to showcase how TikZ can be utilized. Follow these steps:

  1. Start with any document class...