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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)

Arranging topics like a puzzle

Cédric Pierquet has created numerous useful and entertaining packages, often centered around graphics, including functionalities for printing playing cards, Scrabble boards, Tangram puzzles, and Wordle grids. You can find a comprehensive list of his contributions at https://ctan.org/author/pierquet.

Let’s just try a package by him that gives a simple yet effective method to organize topics in a puzzle-like layout.

How to do it...

We will use the thematicpuzzle package developed by Cédric Pierquet. Additionally, we will load the xfp package to enable internal floating-point calculations. With TeX Live 2023 or newer, you can omit this step. Moreover, we will use the fontawesome5 package authored by Marcel Krüger, allowing us to incorporate Font Awesome 5 icons. Take the following steps:

  1. Start with a document class. Here, we use the standalone class as we just want to generate a small picture:
    \documentclass[border=10pt...