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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

Producing a calendar


Self-made calendars can be a great gift. Also, for work and education, it would be great to have our own customized calendar.

In this recipe, we will print a calendar of a whole year, with all months arranged in a tabular layout. You can adjust it to print just one month below an image, for example.

How to do it...

We will use the mighty TikZ bundle again, since it provides a calendar library:

  1. Set up document class and page dimensions. Furthermore, change to empty pagestyle to not have page numbering:

    \documentclass{article}
    \usepackage[margin = 2.5cm, a4paper]{geometry}
    \pagestyle{empty}
  2. Load TikZ and its libraries calendar and positioning:

    \usepackage{tikz}
    \usetikzlibrary{calendar,positioning}
  3. To save the typing effort and for an easier change of year, define a macro for the year and one to call the TikZ \calendar command:

    \newcommand{\calyear}{2016}
    \newcommand{\mon}[1]{\calendar[dates = \calyear-#1-01
      to \calyear-#1-last] if (Sunday) [red];}
    
  4. Now write the document containing...