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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)

Working with Images

In LaTeX, you can easily include external images in your documents. This chapter begins with essential pointers for including images and then explores helpful techniques for arranging and adjusting them.

Specifically, we will cover the following:

  • Including images with optimal quality
  • Customizing images
  • Adding a frame to an image
  • Cutting an image to get rounded corners
  • Shaping an image like a circle
  • Drawing over an image
  • Aligning images
  • Arranging images in a grid
  • Stacking images

LaTeX supports a limited range of image file formats. First, we will speak about supported formats and their practical differences in usability and quality. Then, we will explore methods to enhance the decorative aspects of images, particularly photos.

Finally, we will arrange images with alignment, in a grid, or layering.

While this chapter is about using images, you can read about creating images in Chapter 6, Creating Graphics.

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