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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)

Writing chemical formulas

The presentation of chemical formulas and equations differs from mathematical ones in several ways:

  • Atomic symbols are represented by upright letters, distinct from italicized mathematical variables
  • Numbers are often employed as subscripts, signifying the count of atoms.
  • The alignment of numerous subscripts and superscripts is essential for a good formula layout
  • Left subscripts and superscripts are also required in some cases
  • Special symbols for bonds and arrows are necessary for chemical equations

However, accomplishing such requirements is challenging with basic LaTeX. Let’s find a more effective solution.

How to do it...

We’ll utilize the chemformula package that Clemens Niederberger wrote to practice chemical notation in LaTeX. Let’s start:

  1. Choose a document class, such as scrartcl of the KOMA-Script bundle, and the chemformula package and begin with the document:
    \documentclass{scrartcl...