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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)

Creating a pull quote

To capture readers’ interest in a text, we can present a brief and appealing excerpt as a quotation. We can pull out some text. In a two-column layout, it looks nice to put the quotation into a window at the center of the page between the two columns, with the regular text flowing around it. It’s also an excellent way of embedding images.

How to do it...

One approach is to use the shapepar package to cut out space from the text, like in the previous recipe. However, doing it twice, once for each column, would take some work.

The pullquote package provides a solution. It can typeset a balanced two-column text layout with a cut-out window. This can be filled with text or an image. The shape is arbitrary.

We will use placeholder text and highlight a quote by Donald Knuth, the creator of TeX.

  1. Download the file pullquote.dtx from https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~tex-sx/tex-sx/development/view/head:/pullquote.dtx.
  2. Click on “...