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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)

Splitting a cell diagonally

If we need a header for the first column but also for the entries of the first row, the top-left cell can be split to contain both header entries, separated by a diagonal line.

How to do it...

We will use the slashbox package. It is part of MiKTeX but not part of TeX Live. Users of TeX Live can download it from CTAN at https://ctan.org/pkg/slashbox.

In this recipe, we will build a timetable. It’s intended to be filled out by hand later, so we use vertical lines for delimiting fields. Follow these steps:

  1. Use any document class; here, we use the article class:
    \documentclass{article}
  2. Load the slashbox package:
    \usepackage{slashbox}
  3. Within the document body, create the tabular layout:
    \begin{document}
    \renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1.8}
    \begin{tabular}{|l|c|c|c|c|c|}
      \hline
      \backslashbox{Time}{Weekday} & Monday   & Tuesday
              ...