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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)

Typesetting in a grid

In addition to full horizontal justification, LaTeX adjusts the page content vertically to maintain a consistent page height. Consequently, the internal spacing within a page can vary. As a result, lines on adjacent pages may look shifted.

For two-sided prints with very thin paper, matching baselines would look much better. Especially in two-column documents, it may be desirable to have baselines of adjacent lines at precisely the same height.

In this recipe, our goal is to arrange lines on a grid. Regular text lines shall be placed at a baseline grid. Displayed formulas, figures, tables, and captions are allowed to have a different baseline, but the subsequent text should return to the grid.

How to do it...

We’ll use the grid package specifically developed for grid typesetting. Follow these steps:

  1. Begin by creating a small two-column example with placeholder text to which we can apply the grid commands. Here is a straightforward code...