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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 justification and hyphenation

Occasionally, you may get warnings such as “overfull \hbox" or notice words hanging into the margin. This indicates that LaTeX had severe problems with justification. Now, we will look at how to improve such a situation by ensuring proper hyphenation and integrating microtypographic support.

How to do it...

We can start with any document. We will optimize it by applying particular settings in the preamble. If you don’t have a document readily available, you can take one from the code package for this book, specifically for the first chapter, or download one from https://latex-cookbook.net. Take the following steps:

  1. Load the babel package with your document languages as options. Use the preferred language as the last option:
    \usepackage[ngerman,english]{babel}
  2. If you would like to use handy shortcuts of ngerman with English too, add the following lines:
    \useshorthands{"}
    \addto\extrasenglish{\languageshorthands...