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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)

Inserting comments

When collaborating, you may want to append notes or comments to a document, offering extra details to share with co-authors, which can later be eliminated from the final version. The PDF standard supports comments, and so does LaTeX.

How to do it...

We will insert some comments into our small document example from Chapter 1, Exploring Various Document Classes. For brevity, we will directly look at the essential commands. As with all recipes, the full source code can be downloaded. Follow these essential steps for inserting comments:

  1. Load the xcolor package in the preamble to get color support:
    \usepackage[svgnames]{xcolor}
  2. Load the pdfcomment package in the preamble:
    \usepackage{pdfcomment}

    You could define some default settings if you wish to, such as the following. Add them when loading the pdfcomment package, as follows:

    \usepackage[author={Your name}, icon=Note,
      color=Yellow, open=true]{pdfcomment}
  3. To insert a simple comment with...