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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)

Combining PDF files

Combining the source code of two LaTeX documents can be pretty challenging, especially if they are based on different classes. However, combining their PDF output is pretty straightforward.

How to do it...

We will use the pdfpages package.

We can test it with the flyer example from the first chapter together with the form example of the current chapter. Let’s get going:

  1. Start a document and choose any class:
    \documentclass{article}
  2. Load the pdfpages package:
    \usepackage{pdfpages}
  3. Begin the document:
    \begin{document}
  4. Include the first PDF file using the \includepdf command. It takes a page range as an option. Use a dash (-) for the entire page range:
    \includepdf[pages=-]{flyer}
  5. Include the second PDF file:
    \includepdf[pages=-]{form}
  6. End the document:
    \end{document}
  7. Compile once, and look at the newly generated file containing the flyer and the form.

How it works...

The pdfpages package is primarily for including...