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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)

Optimizing the output for e-book readers

A traditional book comprises a set of pages; LaTeX, too, follows this tradition. However, today, e-book reading devices, such as Kindle and iPad, and even smartphones have gained popularity for reading documents.

In this recipe, we will see how to make a document e-book-friendly.

How to do it...

We will set up a preamble for a document that could nicely be read on an electronic device such as a tablet reader. Perform the following steps:

  1. Choose a suitable document class. Choose small headings and a small inter-paragraph skip instead of paragraph indentation. The latter costs too much space on an already narrow display. Use this:
    \documentclass[fontsize=11pt,headings=small,
      parskip=half]{scrreprt}
  2. Set a small paper size matching a common screen ratio, and choose a small margin:
    \usepackage[papersize={3.6in,4.8in},
      margin=0.2in]{geometry}
  3. Choose a well-designed font that is also easily readable on...