LaTeX Cookbook Over 100 hands on recipes to quickly prepare LaTeX documents of various kinds to solve challenging tasks Wei Zhi 1st by edition Kottwitz 1784395145 9781784395148
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ISBN 10: 1784395145
ISBN 13: 9781784395148
Author: Kottwitz
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.
What you will learn
- Choose the right document class for your project to customize its features
- Utilize fonts globally and locally
- Frame, shape, arrange, and annotate images
- Add a bibliography, a glossary, and an index
- Create colorful graphics including diagrams, flow charts, bar charts, trees, plots in 2d and 3d, time lines, and mindmaps
- Solve typical tasks for various sciences including math, physics, chemistry, electrotechnics, and computer science
- Optimize PDF output and enrich it with meta data, annotations, popups, animations, and fillin fields
- Explore the outstanding capabilities of the newest engines and formats such as XeLaTeX, LuaLaTeX, and LaTeX3
Table of contents:
1. The Variety of Document Types
Introduction
Getting ready
TeX and LaTeX distributions
LaTeX editors
Writing a short text
How to do it…
How it works…
See also
Writing a thesis
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
There’s more…
Changing the input encoding
Getting a right-justified table of contents
Changing the margins
Modifying the layout of captions
Centering displayed equations
See also
Designing a book
How to do it…
How it works…
There’s more…
Changing the page layout
Designing a title page
Adding a cover page
Changing the document class
See also
Creating a presentation
How to do it…
How it works…
There’s more…
Using short titles and names
Uncovering information piecewise
Splitting frames in columns
Showing an outline for each section
Removing the navigation symbols
Changing the font
Changing the color
Loading a theme from the Internet
Providing a handout
See also
Designing a curriculum vitae
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
See also
Writing a letter
How to do it…
How it works…
There’s more…
Separating paragraphs
Changing the signature
Adding enclosures
Producing a leaflet
How to do it…
How it works…
There’s more…
Fold marks and cut lines
Adjusting the margins
Adding a background image
Changing the sectioning font
Creating a large poster
How to do it…
How it works…
There’s more…
2. Tuning the Text
Introduction
Inputting accented characters
How to do it…
How it works…
There’s more…
Improving justification and hyphenation
How to do it…
How it works…
Converting numbers to words
How to do it…
How it works…
There’s more…
Multilingual support
Gender
Enumerated lists
Putting text into a colorful box
How to do it…
How it works…
There’s more…
Visualizing the layout
How to do it…
How it works…
There’s more…
Using geometry
Examining the page layout details
Visualizing boxes of letters and symbols
How to do it…
How it works…
Typesetting in a grid
How to do it…
How it works…
There’s more…
Absolute positioning of text
How to do it…
How it works…
There’s more…
Starting a paragraph with an over-sized letter
How to do it…
How it works…
There’s more…
Changing the drop cap size
Coloring the initial
Fitting text to a shape
How to do it…
How it works…
There’s more…
Further shapes
Cutting out shapes
Creating a pull quote
How to do it…
How it works…
There’s more…
3. Adjusting Fonts
Introduction
Basic font commands
There’s more…
Choosing a font for a document
Getting ready
How to do it…
There’s more…
Latin Modern
Kepler fonts
Font combinations
Locally switching to a different font
How to do it…
A command for changing the font
An environment for changing the font
How it works…
There’s more…
Importing just a single symbol from a font family
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Writing bold mathematical symbols
How to do it…
How it works…
There’s more…
Standard LaTeX
AMS-LaTeX and amsmath
Comparing bm and amsmath
Getting the sans serif mathematics font
How to do it…
How it works…
There’s more…
An alternative approach
Sans serif fonts with direct math support
Arev Sans
Kepler fonts
Writing double stroke letters as if on a blackboard
How to do it…
How it works…
There’s more…
Enabling the searching and copying of ligatures
How to do it…
How it works…
There’s more…
Suppressing ligatures
How to do it…
How it works…
Adding a contour
How to do it…
How it works…
See also
4. Working with Images
Introduction
Including images with optimal quality
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Automating image positioning
How to do it…
How it works…
There’s more
Limiting the floating figures and tables
Fixing the position of a figure
See also
Manipulating images
How to do it…
Adding a frame to an image
How to do it…
How it works…
Cutting an image to get rounded corners
How to do it…
How it works…
There’s more…
Shaping an image like a circle
How to do it…
How it works…
There’s more…
Drawing over an image
How to do it…
How it works…
Aligning images
How to do it…
How it works…
Arranging images in a grid
How to do it…
How it works…
Stacking images
How to do it…
How it works…
5. Beautiful Designs
Introduction
Adding a background image
How to do it…
How it works…
There’s more…
Creating beautiful ornaments
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
There’s more…
Preparing pretty headings
How to do it…
How it works…
Producing a calendar
How to do it…
How it works…
Mimicking keys and menu items
How to do it…
How it works…
6. Designing Tables
Introduction
Creating a legible table
How to do it…
How it works…
There’s more…
Adding footnotes to a table
How to do it…
How it works…
Aligning numeric data
How to do it…
How it works…
There’s more…
Coloring a table
How to do it…
How it works…
Merging cells
How to do it…
How it works…
There’s more…
Splitting a cell diagonally
How to do it…
How it works…
Adding shape, shading, and transparency
How to do it…
How it works…
There’s more…
Numbering table rows automatically
Adding styles to rows and columns
Importing data from files
How to do it…
How it works…
7. Contents, Indexes, and Bibliographies
Introduction
Tuning a table of contents, lists of figures, and tables
How to do it…
Automatic correction of widths
Printing a flat table of contents
Getting KOMA-Script like-sans-serif headings
How it works…
There’s more…
Creating a bibliography
How to do it…
How it works…
There’s more…
Adding a glossary
How to do it…
How it works…
Creating a list of acronyms
How to do it…
How it works…
Producing an index
How to do it…
How it works…
There’s more…
8. Getting the Most out of the PDF
Introduction
Adding hyperlinks
How to do it…
How it works…
There’s more…
Inserting custom hyperlinks
Linking to a place within the document
Linking to labeled objects
Linking to the Internet
Changing the color and shape of the hyperlinks
Getting backreferences in the bibliography
Hyperlinking index entries
Adding metadata
How to do it…
How it works…
There’s more…
Adding copyright information
How to do it…
How it works…
There’s more…
Inserting comments
How to do it…
How it works…
Producing fillable forms
How to do it…
How it works…
Optimizing the output for e-book readers
How to do it…
How it works…
There’s more…
Removing white margins
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
There’s more…
Combining PDF files
How to do it…
How it works…
Creating an animation
How to do it…
How it works…
9. Creating Graphics
Introduction
Getting ready
Building smart diagrams
How to do it…
How it works…
There’s more…
Circular diagrams
Bubble diagrams
Constellation diagrams
Descriptive diagrams
Priority descriptive diagrams
Animating a diagram
Further customization
Constructing a flowchart
How it works…
Building a tree
How to do it…
How it works…
There’s more…
Creating a decision tree
Building a bar chart
How to do it…
How it works…
Drawing a pie chart
How to do it…
How it works…
There’s more…
Square charts
Polar area charts
Cloud charts
Drawing a Venn diagram
How to do it…
How it works…
Putting thoughts in a mind map
How to do it…
How it works…
Generating a timeline
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
10. Advanced Mathematics
Introduction
Quick-start for beginners
How to do it…
How it works…
Math styles
Greek letters
Math symbols
Squares and fractions
There’s more…
Subscripts and superscripts
Operators
Numbering and referencing equations
Writing multiline formulas with alignment
Aligning at the relation symbol
Centering a block of equations
Adjusting numbering
Fine-tuning math formulas
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Automatic line-breaking in equations
How to do it…
How it works….
Highlighting in a formula
How to do it…
How it works…
There’s more…
Stating definitions and theorems
How to do it…
How it works…
There’s more…
Adjusting the numbering
An alternative theorem package
Additional theorem tools
Drawing commutative diagrams
How to do it…
How it works….
There’s more…
Plotting functions in two dimensions
How to do it…
How it works…
There’s more…
Adding ticks and grids
Reducing axes
Plotting in polar coordinates
Plotting in three dimensions
How to do it…
How it works…
There’s more…
Reducing axes
Drawing geometry pictures
How to do it…
How it works….
Defining points
Calculating points
Drawing objects
Printing labels
There’s more…
Doing calculations
How to do it…
How it works….
See also
11. Science and Technology
Introduction
Typesetting an algorithm
How to do it…
How it works…
There’s more…
Printing a code listing
How to do it…
How it works…
There’s more…
Application in graph theory
How to do it…
How it works…
Writing physical quantities with units
How to do it…
How it works…
Writing chemical formulae
How to do it…
How it works…
There’s more…
Drawing molecules
How to do it…
How it works…
There’s more…
Drawing rings
Naming molecules
Using building blocks
Applying TikZ options
Using ready-drawn carbohydrates
Representing atoms
How to do it…
How it works…
Drawing electrical circuits
How to do it…
How it works…
See also
12. Getting Support on the Internet
Introduction
Exploring online LaTeX resources
How to do it…
Software archives and catalogues
User groups
Web forums and discussion groups
Frequently Asked Questions
There’s more…
Using web forums
How to do it…
How it works…
There’s more…
Framing a really good question
How to do it…
Creating a minimal example
How to do it…
There’s more…
Index
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