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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)

Stacking images

We can also stack images on top of one another, such as for a fancy photo collage. This can be combined with previous recipes such as rotating and framing. Let’s focus on stacking here.

How to do it...

The stackengine package allows things to be placed above each other. It can handle text and math as well as images. Let’s try it with the latter, using sample images. Here’s how to proceed:

  1. In your document preamble, load the mwe package. It provides dummy images and automatically loads the graphicx package, which we otherwise load ourselves, as before:
    \usepackage{mwe}
  2. Load the stackengine package:
    \usepackage{stackengine}
  3. In the document body, use the \stackinset command. It takes six arguments. This sounds like a lot of work, but it allows flexible positioning. The syntax is as follows:
    \stackinset{horizontal alignment}
        {horizontal offset}
        {vertical aligment}
       ...