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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)

Adding footnotes to a table

It’s advisable to keep entries concise in tables, especially row header text; otherwise, the table is more complicated to read. For example, long headers could make it harder for our eyes to follow a row with short entries but wide spaces. One approach to adding necessary details while keeping the table short and crisp is using footnotes.

Rather than placing the notes at the foot of the page, adding them directly at the foot of the table is a good idea. We also call them table notes. These are some reasons for and benefits of this approach:

  • Tables are usually self-contained objects for reference.
  • While commonly footnotes are written at the bottom of the page to retain the text flow, it’s enough to move a table note below the table so as not to disturb the table content. There’s no need to push notes further down to the bottom of the page.
  • Tables can be repositioned to achieve better page breaks; in such cases, their...