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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)

Printing font tables

The last recipes showed how to print text in a particular font. This gives you a visual representation immediately. In addition, you may want to see the entire set of characters and symbols in a font. You can let LaTeX print a font table for you to achieve this.

Note

We will use the term glyph when we refer to the graphic representation of a particular character or symbol in a font.

How to do it...

The fonttable package can print the character set of a font in the shape of a table. It’s straightforward, as follows:

  1. In your document’s preamble, load the fonttable package:
    \usepackage{fonttable}
  2. In the document’s body, use the following command to display the character table of the Zapf Dingbats font:
    \fonttable{pzdr}
  3. Compile, and then you will see the following table in your document:
Figure 3.5 – The Zapf Dingbats character table

Figure 3.5 – The Zapf Dingbats character table

How it works...

The \fonttable command prints...