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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)

Merging cells

As suggested in the table design advice in the first recipe of this chapter, instead of duplicating identical values in adjacent cells, you can leave the other cells empty if it’s evident to the reader that the same values apply.

We can support the meaning by merging cells and centering the cell value over the new width or height.

How to do it...

Merging and centering can be done horizontally, vertically, or both combined. We will start with the horizontal method, spanning cells over multiple columns. This is often used for table headers that apply to several columns. So, in this recipe, we will combine header texts.

As modeling clay, we will take the differences between various LaTeX compilers. While the LaTeX format remains the same, the underlying TeX engine causes differences. We will arrange them now. Follow these steps:

  1. Specify the class; you could use the article class for now:
    \documentclass{article}
  2. Load the array package, which...