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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

Putting thoughts in a mind map


A mind map visualizes information or ideas. Usually, there's a main concept in the center and major concepts branching outward from it. Smaller ideas start from the major concepts, so a mind map can look like a spider web.

In this recipe, we will draw a mind map of the concepts of TeX.

How to do it...

We will use the TikZ mindmap library. Follow these steps:

  1. Start with a document class:

    \documentclass{article}
  2. Load the geometry package with the landscape option so that your wide mindmap will fit the page:

    \usepackage[landscape]{geometry}
  3. Then, load the tikz package:

    \usepackage{tikz}
  4. Next, load the mindmap TikZ library:

    \usetikzlibrary{mindmap}
  5. Load the dtklogos package to get additional TeX-related logo macros:

    \usepackage{dtklogos}
  6. Start the document and begin the TikZ picture:

    \begin{document}
    \begin{tikzpicture}
  7. Start a path with options:

      \path [
  8. Provide the mindmap option and choose the white text color:

        mindmap,
        text = white,
  9. Adjust the styles for the levels of...