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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)

Choosing a document font

The default font has the name Computer Modern and is of excellent quality. It’s a whole font family containing bold, italic, sans-serif, typewriter, and more font versions. All the fonts are well-composed to fit together.

If you want to change a font, use a complete bundle or carefully select font families based on shape and size. That’s because, besides giving an excellent appearance to the document overall, it is essential that all font families are compliant with each other when they are used together.

This recipe will look at some font sets and recommended combinations.

Getting ready

The files for the fonts you would like to use should already be installed on your TeX system. If necessary, install them. Use the package manager of your LaTeX distribution, such as the MiKTeX package manager if you use MiKTeX on Windows, or the TeX Live manager tool called tlmgr.

If you have TeX Live installed, it offers the possibility to install...