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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)

Generating minimal working examples

The most effective way to seek help from anyone is to post the problem in a readily understandable manner, sparing readers from the need to ask for additional details. That’s like serving the problem on a silver platter with a complete, illustrative, and minimal code example that can be easily compiled, making the resolution process straightforward. This approach is perfect in a forum, allowing readers to test and address the issue promptly. In other words:

  • Post the complete code so readers can try to compile it
  • The code should show the problem
  • Remove non-relevant stuff so it’s as small as possible

Then, it’s usually easy to solve it. It’s handy enough to post in a forum, and the readers can quickly try it out.

How to do it...

A good strategy is the “divide and conquer” method—resolving a problem by breaking it into smaller parts until only simple issues remain. To isolate...