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LaTeX Cookbook

By : Stefan Kottwitz
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LaTeX Cookbook

By: Stefan Kottwitz

Overview of this book

LaTeX is a high-quality typesetting software and is very popular, especially among scientists. Its programming language gives you full control over every aspect of your documents, no matter how complex they are. LaTeX's huge amount of customizable templates and supporting packages cover most aspects of writing with embedded typographic expertise. With this book you will learn to leverage the capabilities of the latest document classes and explore the functionalities of the newest packages. The book starts with examples of common document types. It provides you with samples for tuning text design, using fonts, embedding images, and creating legible tables. Common document parts such as the bibliography, glossary, and index are covered, with LaTeX's modern approach.You will learn how to create excellent graphics directly within LaTeX, including diagrams and plots quickly and easily. Finally, you will discover how to use the new engines XeTeX and LuaTeX for advanced programming and calculating with LaTeX. The example-driven approach of this book is sure to increase your productivity.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
LaTeX Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Stating definitions and theorems


Strictly structured math documents often contain certain numbered textual elements, which can be definitions, theorems, lemmas, examples remarks, and so on. Numbering is mainly for cross-referencing. Such structuring is especially the case in self-contained scientific works such as theses.

As a sample application, we will create a definition, a theorem with a proof, a lemma, and an additional note. All shall be automatically numbered for cross-referencing. Just for fun, we will apply it to school geometry: the theorem of Pythagoras.

Note

Actually, this recipe is of pretty universal use: you can create numbered, named environments, ready for cross-referencing, whatever it shall contain at the end.

How to do it...

We continue using the amsmath package, with a special part of it, the amsthm package as follows:

  1. As usual, start with a document class. For our recipe, the article class is sufficient.

    \documentclass{article}
  2. Load the packages amsmath and amsthm:

    \usepackage...