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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)

Suppressing ligatures

A ligature is a combination of several letters in a single glyph. Ligatures improve the readability and visual quality of text, and thus, we should retain them. However, there may be a reason to disable them – for example, in verbatim text, such as source code.

Furthermore, it’s possible that searching or copying ligatures in a PDF file would fail, which we discussed in the previous recipe.

How to do it...

We will now see how to deactivate ligatures. We will use the microtype package:

  1. Load the microtype package:
    \usepackage{microtype}
  2. Disable ligatures entirely:
    \DisableLigatures{encoding = *, family = * }
  3. If you would like to restrict that feature to a certain font, you can specify it instead, such as the following:
    \DisableLigatures{encoding = T1, family = tt* }
  4. You can even suppress just selected ligatures using the following command. Specify the letter that starts the ligature:
    \DisableLigatures[f]{encoding = *, family...