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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 Feynman diagrams

A Feynman diagram is a mathematical visualization of the behavior of subatomic particles. There are several ways to generate them using LaTeX.

How to do it...

We will use the tikz-feynman package. The author documented it in J. Ellis, ‘TikZ-Feynman: Feynman diagrams with TikZ’, (2016), arXiv:1601.05437 [hep-ph], and you can access the documentation executing texdoc tikz-feynman via the command line or at https://texdoc.org/pkg/tikz-feynman.

The positions of the vertices are calculated using Lua, so we must compile with LuaLaTeX. Follow these steps:

  1. Start with any document class:
    \documentclass[border=10pt]{standalone}
  2. Load the tikz-feynman package:
    \usepackage{tikz-feynman}
  3. Load additional useful TikZ libraries and begin the document:
    \usetikzlibrary{positioning,quotes}
    \begin{document}
  4. Utilize the \feynmandiagram command as follows:
    \feynmandiagram [horizontal=a to b] {
      i1 [particle=$e^-$] -- [fermion] a
    ...