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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)

Adding a glossary

When your document contains terms needing clarification, a glossary becomes invaluable. It’s an alphabetized roster of words or phrases accompanied by their explanations. Enhancing this further involves incorporating back-references, indicating where these terms are used within the text.

How to do it...

We will work with the glossaries package. Follow these steps:

  1. Start with any document class. For our example, we decided on the scrartcl class because, with the parskip option, we don’t start with a paragraph indentation. But you could use the article class without options as well:
    \documentclass[parskip=half]{scrartcl}
  2. Load the glossaries package and choose the style called long3col:
    \usepackage[style=long3col]{glossaries}
  3. Use the following command to tell the package to create a glossary:
    \makenoidxglossaries
  4. Create the first glossary entry for the word TeX. Using a key=value interface, state the name and a word indicating the...