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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)

Drawing geometry pictures

Geometry is a traditional field in mathematics that’s familiar from school days, involving compass and ruler constructions. Using LaTeX for drawing geometric constructions and explanations can particularly interest math teachers. These underlying constructions can also aid in general drawings requiring line intersections and circle tangents, even if they don’t seem strictly geometric. Therefore, in this recipe, we’ll revisit the drawings from school geometry.

How to do it...

We’re going to utilize the tkz-euclide package, an extension of TikZ. Our initial objective is to create an equilateral triangle. Afterward, we’ll include additional details. Follow these instructions:

  1. Start with a document class. It could be any one; here, we can use the standalone class to focus on a single image:
    \documentclass[border=10pt]{standalone}
  2. Load the tkz-euclide package:
    \usepackage{tkz-euclide}
  3. Begin the document and...