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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)

Drawing over an image

If you need to add text, arrows, or other annotations to an image, it’s recommended to do so directly within LaTeX. This offers several advantages compared to using external graphics software:

  • Font consistency: You can use the same fonts in your annotations in the image as those used throughout your LaTeX document, ensuring visual uniformity
  • Style consistency: Styles such as line widths, colors, and arrow types adhere to the style of your other drawings
  • Scalability: Your annotations scale seamlessly and will remain sharp and high-quality
  • Macro integration: You can use macros from your preamble or packages in your annotations

How to do it…

We will draw with TikZ. We use the onimage package for this example. If it’s not available in your TeX distribution or on CTAN, you can download it from Launchpad: https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~tex-sx/tex-sx/development/view/head:/onimage.dtx. The .dtx filename extension stands...