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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

Drawing a pie chart


Pie charts are popular for showing proportions. A pie chart's main characteristic is that all items usually sum up to 100 percent. They are displayed as segments of a disc.

As an example, we will use a pie chart to display the relative amount of questions about different TeX distributions.

How to do it...

We will use the pgf-pie package, which builds on TikZ and is specialized for generating pie charts. Follow these steps:

  1. Start with a document class:

    \documentclass{article}
    
  2. Load the pgf-pie package:

    \usepackage{pgf-pie}
    
  3. Begin the document:

    \begin{document}
    
  4. Begin a TikZ picture, which will be the container of the pie chart:

    \begin{tikzpicture}
    
  5. Draw a pie chart using this command:

     \pie [rotate = 180]
        {62/\TeX\ Live and Mac\TeX,
         32/MiK\TeX\ and Pro\TeX t, 6/Other \TeX}
    
    
  6. End the TikZ picture and the entire document:

    \end{tikzpicture}
    \end{document}
    
  7. Compile and take a look at the result:

How it works...

The \pie command is the only user command in the pgf-pie package. The...