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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)

Writing bold mathematical symbols

There are several ways to get bold mathematical symbols. LaTeX directly provides a classic method. Take a look at this code:

\boldmath $y=f(x)$\unboldmath

It works like this:

  1. In text mode, we switch to bold math alphabets.
  2. We enter math mode, in which bold symbols are always chosen, if available.
  3. We leave math mode.
  4. While in text mode, we switch the math alphabet back to normal – non-bold.

However, this makes all symbols a formula bold. This kind of emphasis is somewhat rare today, as it destroys the uniform grayness of the text from a typographer’s point of view.

A more common requirement is to get bold versions of certain symbols. For example, bold symbols are often used for vectors and number systems.

In this recipe, we will take the most recommendable approach to get bold symbols.

How to do it...

We will use the bm package, as follows:

  1. Load the bm package in your preamble. Do this...