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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 Venn diagram

A Venn diagram displays several sets with their relationships. Commonly, these are overlapping circles. Such sets can stand for specific properties. If an element has two such properties, it would belong to an overlapping area, the intersection of the two sets.

In this recipe, we will draw a Venn diagram of three sets.

How to do it...

We will draw colored circles and apply blending to their intersections. Follow these steps:

  1. Choose a document class:
    \documentclass{article}
  2. Load the tikz package:
    \usepackage{tikz}
  3. Begin the document:
    \begin{document}
  4. Begin a TikZ picture environment:
    \begin{tikzpicture}
  5. Use a scope environment to apply a style to a part of the drawing. Here, we apply color blending:
      \begin{scope}[blend group=soft light]
  6. Draw the diagram parts, which are, in our case, just filled circles:
        \fill[red!30!white]   ( 90:1.2) circle (2);
        \fill[green...