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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)

Locally switching to a different font

A typographically good document with a consistent appearance commonly uses just a few fonts, each with a purpose. Common font choices are as follows:

  • Serif body text
  • Sans-serif for headings
  • Monospaced for source code

Each font family is defined in the preamble, usually implicitly done by packages. There are LaTeX commands to switch between families, shapes, and weights, but what if you also wanted to use a completely different font, such as a second serif font? This recipe will help to achieve that.

How to do it...

We will take a look at two ways to switch to a completely different font:

  • Defining a command
  • Defining an environment

In each case, we need to know the shortcut code for the font. The code is based on Karl Berry’s naming scheme; you can read about it by running texdoc fontname at the command line or online at https://texdoc.org/pkg/fontname. You don’t need to study this guide...