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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)

Improving your content

You can leverage ChatGPT to enhance the quality of your content.

How to do it...

The most direct approach is to provide ChatGPT with your original text and instruct it to enhance it. Clearly outline ChatGPT’s role in this task and specify the desired tone.

For instance, use a prompt like the following:

Prompt: Act as a technical editor. Maintain an informal yet sober and technical tone, and avoid excessive enthusiasm. Rephrase the following texts, preserving what sounds good but improving overall quality.

Then, provide your text paragraph by paragraph, look at ChatGPT’s responses, and see if there are any corrections or improvements that you would like to keep. This ensures corrections to spelling and grammar, adherence to the desired tone, and, also important, identification of synonyms that could amplify the impact and clarity of your initial writing.

As an example, let’s consider a brief text excerpt from https://en.wikipedia...