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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)

Mimicking keys, menu items, and terminal output

Technical documentation and software manuals often explain keyboard shortcuts, guide users through program menus, show terminal command output, and provide information on file locations.

This recipe helps in writing such guides.

How to do it...

We will use the menukeys package developed by Tobias Weh and Jonathan P. Spratte. Let’s keep it concise and try out the main commands. Follow these steps:

  1. Start a short document and load the menukeys package in it:
    \documentclass[parskip=full]{scrartcl}
    \usepackage{menukeys}
    \begin{document}
    \section*{Running \TeX works}
  2. In the body text, use \menu for menu entries, \keys for keyboard combinations, and \directory for a path, as follows:
    In the main menu, click \menu{Typeset > pdfLaTeX}
    for choosing the \TeX\ compiler. Then press
    \keys{\cmd + T} for typesetting.
    Click \menu{Window > Show > Fonts} for seeing
    the fonts used by the document.
    Press \keys{\shift + ...