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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

Automatic line-breaking in equations


Usually, we pay particular attention to formula design. In case of multiline formulas, we manually choose the best break point and where to align things. But imagine a long chain of calculations, such as in proofs or in math homework. It would be great if TeX could wrap displayed formulas as it does in case of normal text. And it's possible.

How to do it...

The breqn package is designed for exactly this purpose. This recipe will demonstrate it. We will use the beamer class because seminar slides are usually limited in terms of space. Follow these steps:

  1. Specify the document class:

    \documentclass[12pt]{beamer}
  2. As the beamer class uses sans-serif math font by default, we switch to the serif math font as in standard documents:

    \usefonttheme[onlymath]{serif}
  3. Load the breqn package:

    \usepackage{breqn}
  4. Start the document, and begin a frame:

    \begin{document}
    \begin{frame}
  5. Write your math formula, without paragraph breaks and without space, just as you would do with simple...