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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)

Using hyperlinks

Initially, LaTeX was used primarily to produce high-quality prints on paper. Since the output was device-independent from the beginning, the results can also be viewed on screens, tablets, and smartphones.

With electronic publishing, we gain access to convenient functionalities, most notably hyperlinks, enabling effortless navigation within documents. This recipe focuses on using LaTeX to incorporate hyperlinks into a PDF.

How to do it...

We will use the hyperref package, which provides a user-friendly interface for accessing numerous PDF features, particularly hyperlinks. We can test it with examples from Chapter 1, Exploring Various Document Classes. Here are the steps to follow:

  1. Open the book example from the first chapter in your editor.
  2. At the end of the preamble, add this line for loading the hyperref package:
    \usepackage{hyperref}
  3. Compile at least twice so LaTeX can process the data in the .aux file written by the hyperref package.
  4. ...