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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 a pie chart

Pie charts are famous for showing proportions. Their main characteristic is that all items usually sum up to 100%. They are displayed as segments of a disc.

How to do it...

We will use the pgf-pie package, which builds on TikZ and is specialized in generating pie charts. Follow these steps:

  1. Start with a document class:
    \documentclass{article}
  2. Load the pgf-pie package:
    \usepackage{pgf-pie}
  3. Begin the document:
    \begin{document}
  4. Begin a TikZ picture, which will be the container for the pie chart:
    \begin{tikzpicture}
  5. Draw the pie chart using this command:
     \pie [rotate = 180]
        {62/\TeX\ Live and Mac\TeX,
         32/MiK\TeX\ and Pro\TeX t, 6/Other \TeX}
  6. End the TikZ picture and the whole document:
    \end{tikzpicture}
    \end{document}
  7. Compile, and take a look at the output:
Figure 6.11 – A pie chart

Figure 6.11 – A pie chart

How it works...

\pie is the only command of the pgf-pie...