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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

Introduction


You can include external images into a LaTeX document. Only a few image file formats are supported by LaTeX. We will discuss supported formats and the differences between them.

After discussing quality aspects, we will take a look at the concept of floating figures for automated positioning for well-balanced text heights on pages.

Then, we will look at some recipes that can be used for making images, especially photos, more decorative.

Finally, we will arrange images with alignment, in a grid, or even on top of each other.

While this chapter is about using images, you can read about creating images in Chapter 9, Creating Graphics. In this chapter, we will focus on required commands without starting each document with \documentclass and ending it by \end{document}. You can download full code examples from http://latex-cookbook.net.