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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)

Producing a calendar

Self-made customized calendars can be a great gift. Also, having a personalized calendar for professional and educational purposes is helpful.

In this recipe, we’ll generate a full-year calendar with all the months presented in a tabular layout. You can adjust it to print just one month below an image or for other specific needs.

How to do it...

We will use the powerful TikZ package again since it provides a calendar library:

  1. Set up document class and page dimensions. Furthermore, change to the empty page style to not have page numbering:
    \documentclass{article}
    \usepackage[margin = 2.5cm, a4paper]{geometry}
    \pagestyle{empty}
  2. Load TikZ and its calendar and positioning libraries:
    \usepackage{tikz}
    \usetikzlibrary{calendar,positioning}
  3. To save typing and more easily change the year, we define a macro for the year and one for calling the TikZ \calendar command:
    \newcommand{\calyear}{2025}
    \newcommand{\mon}[1]{\calendar[dates = \calyear...