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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)

Arranging images in a grid

The \includegraphics command could load a more extensive set of photos, plots, or diagrams with some space in between, for example, positioned using minipage environments. A \foreach loop may help if the filenames can be generated programmatically.

In this recipe, we will produce a grid of aligned images with arbitrary names, which will be easy to arrange.

How to do it...

We will use a tabular environment for positioning. That’s no surprise yet. However, we will read in the tabular cell content, which we will then use as filenames for inclusion. The collcell package provides the required feature. Follow these steps:

  1. Load the graphicx package and the collcell package:
    \usepackage{graphicx}
    \usepackage{collcell}
  2. Define a command for including an image with a chosen width and height:
    \newcommand{\includepic}[1]{%
      \includegraphics[width=3cm,height=2cm,
      keepaspectratio]{#1}}
  3. Define a new column type that uses...