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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)

Enabling the searching and copying of ligatures

Sometimes, two or more consecutive characters are joined to a single glyph. This is called a ligature. Depending on the font, LaTeX commonly does it for ff, fi, fl, ffi, ffl, and so on. That’s because font makers designed specific glyphs for certain character combinations.

While it looks fine in print and on screen, there is a caveat – if you copy text from the produced PDF file into another document, such as a text or a Word file, the ligatures may appear broken.

Another problem is searching for words containing ligatures in PDF files, which can fail, as the ligature ff differs from the letter combination ff.

We will now tackle both challenges.

How to do it...

We will stick to the commonly used pdfLaTeX. There are several possible ways to fix it. The first way is this:

  1. Input the glyphtounicode.tex file into your document’s preamble:
    \input{glyphtounicode}
  2. On the next line, activate the required...