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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 code

ChatGPT was also heavily trained in coding, making it proficient in generating code, including LaTeX. You can use it to create code snippets or even entire document templates, saving time and effort.

How to do it...

Proceed with your AI conversation like you would do with a human programming assistant as follows:

  1. Ensure you mention LaTeX as the code language in the input prompt or earlier in the chat. Clearly state your requirement, such as this one:

    Prompt: Generate the LaTeX code snippet for a matrix with m rows and n columns using a_ij entries and dots.

  2. ChatGPT will respond with an output similar to the following:
Figure 13.4 – ChatGPT wrote LaTeX code for a matrix

Figure 13.4 – ChatGPT wrote LaTeX code for a matrix

  1. Ask for an explanation of parts you want to know more about, like so:

    Prompt: What is the bmatrix environment doing?

    ChatGPT will respond by telling you the meaning and explaining the syntax. It will even tell you that the amsmath package is...