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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)

Cutting an image to get rounded corners

In the previous recipe, we obtained an image with sharp corners. However, there might be instances where you’d prefer rounded corners. Let’s see how to achieve this neat effect.

How to do it...

We will use a few features of a very modern (La)TeX graphics package called TikZ. People usually spell it that way. Its name and features are explained in Chapter 6, Creating Graphics, where we will talk much more about it. Follow these steps:

  1. Load the tikz package in your preamble:
    \usepackage{tikz}
  2. Declare a box for storing the image:
    \newsavebox{\picbox}
  3. Define a macro that allows us to use our recipe repeatedly:
    \newcommand{\cutpic}[3]{
      \savebox{\picbox}{\includegraphics[width=#2]{#3}}
      \tikz\node[draw, rounded corners=#1, line width=4pt,
        color=white, minimum width=\wd\picbox,
        minimum height=\ht\picbox, path picture = {
        &...