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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)

Customizing images

Before you add an image such as a photo to your document, it’s best to preprocess it using graphics software. LaTeX isn’t designed for image post-processing. However, there are some basic ways to customize how an image is included.

How to do it...

The graphicx package allows customization via simple options:

  • You can scale an image by specifying a scaling factor, such as the following:
    \includegraphics[scale=0.5]{filename}
  • You can resize an image to a fixed width using width and height options, as in the previous recipe.
  • You can rotate an image by specifying an anti-clockwise rotation angle, like so:
    \includegraphics[angle=90]{filename}
  • You can rotate around a particular origin by adding a key, such as c for the center, B for the baseline, and l, r, t, and b for left, right, top, and bottom, respectively. A combination would be understood, such as tl for the top-left corner. The default rotation point is the center of the image...