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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 geometry pictures


A well-known classic field of mathematics is geometry. You may know Euclidean geometry from school, with constructions involving compass and ruler. Math teachers may be very interested in drawing geometric constructions and explanations. Underlying constructions can help us with general drawings where we would need intersections and tangents of lines and circles, even if it does not look like geometry.

So, in this recipe we will remember school geometry drawings.

How to do it...

We will use the tkz-euclide package, which works on top of TikZ. As our first goal, we will construct an equilateral triangle. Then we will add some information. Follow these steps:

  1. Start with a document class. It could be any one; here we can use the standalone class to focus on a single image.

    \documentclass[border=10pt]{standalone}
  2. Load the tkz-euclide package:

    \usepackage{tkz-euclide}
  3. Specify which geometric objects shall be supported. Let's take all available:

    \usetkzobj{all}
  4. Start the document...