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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)

Getting sans-serif mathematics

There are situations where a sans-serif font is required for documents. It can be, for example, a requirement by a university or institute. It may even be a design decision – for example, presentation slides often use a sans-serif font. It’s the default behavior of the LaTeX beamer class.

You can switch to sans-serif for the default text font family using this command:

\renewcommand{\familydefault}{\sfdefault}

In such a case, it’s desirable to print math formulas in sans-serif as well to get a consistent design. The beamer class already does this.

In this recipe, we will do that for an arbitrary class. We will change all math formulas to have a sans-serif font.

How to do it...

We will use the sfmath package. Follow these steps to get sans-serif math formulas:

  1. Load the sfmath package. Do it after font packages or commands that change \sfdefault:
    \usepackage{sfmath}
  2. If you use the default font – that...