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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)

Building a word cloud

A visual representation of a concept can show information quickly and intuitively in a more engaging way than a textual explanation. A popular example is a word cloud, which displays words in different sizes based on their frequency or importance within a particular context. People like word clouds because they provide a quick and visually appealing way to grasp the most significant keywords of a topic.

So, we will define a word cloud and learn how to generate word clouds automatically from PDF or text files.

Getting ready

We will use the wordcloud package programmed by Maxime Chupin. It is included in TeX Live and MiKTeX, but you can also get it from https://ctan.org/pkg/wordcloud. The package requires LuaLaTeX, so choose this as the compiler in your editor. The wordcloud package uses Lua for parsing LaTeX commands and arguments, building lists of words from a text file, and generating MetaPost code. That code is interpreted by the luamplib package....