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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)

Tuning tables of contents and lists of figures and tables

Especially when starting to use LaTeX, the automatic creation of a table of contents (ToC) is impressive. The ToC with section titles and page numbers is generated from your heading texts in commands such as \part, \chapter, and \section. The lists of figures and tables work precisely in the same way, while they use the texts in \caption for the list entries.

The default table of contents design follows a widely used style. In some cases, though, you might need to adjust it.

How to do it...

We will use the tocstyle package for customizing, which belongs to the KOMA-Script bundle. You can try the recipe settings in your own document or use our book example from Chapter 1, Exploring Various Document Classes.

Automatic correction of widths

The default widths of numbers in the ToC remain fixed, so large section or page numbers can potentially overlap with the text. It can also happen with Roman numbering, where the...