LaTeX Cookbook

Stefan Kottwitz

• Verlag: Packt Publishing
• Jahr: 2015
• ISBN:
  9781784395148
• Auflage: 1
• Thema: Design
• Thema: Typography

Over 100 hands-on recipes to quickly prepare LaTeX documents of various kinds to solve challenging tasks

About This Book

• Work with modern document classes, such as KOMA-Script classes
• Explore the latest LaTeX packages, including TikZ, pgfplots, and biblatex
• An example-driven approach to creating stunning graphics directly within LaTeX

Who This Book Is For

If you already know the basics of LaTeX and you like to get fast, efficient solutions, this is the perfect book for you. If you are an advanced reader, you can use this book's example-driven format to take your skillset to the next level. Some familiarity with the basic syntax of LaTeX and how to use the editor of your choice for compiling is required.

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 fill-in fields
• Explore the outstanding capabilities of the newest engines and formats such as XeLaTeX, LuaLaTeX, and LaTeX3

In Detail

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.

Style and approach

This book guides you through the world of LaTeX based on over a hundred hands-on examples. These are explained in detail and are designed to take minimal time and to be self-compliant.

LaTeX Cookbook

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Table of Contents

LaTeX Cookbook

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Sections

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

See also

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

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 t...