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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)

Absolute positioning of text

LaTeX takes care of full justification, balancing text height, and positioning floating objects such as figures and tables. It does a great job, but sometimes, we may need to tell LaTeX to put text or an image precisely at a specific position on a page.

Most positioning commands work in relation to the current position in the document. Now, we would like to output text at an absolute position.

How to do it...

We will use the eso-pic package for precise positioning. We will print text at the edge of the page, in the middle, and at specific positions. We will break down the code into small steps. However, you can copy the entire code from GitHub or the book’s website at https://latex-cookbook.net.

Follow these steps:

  1. Start with any document class. We chose the article class with A5 paper size.
    \documentclass[a5paper]{article}
  2. Load the lipsum package so that you can generate placeholder text:
    \usepackage{lipsum}
  3. Load the graphicx...