You're reading from LaTeX Cookbook Over 90 hands-on recipes for quickly preparing LaTeX documents to solve various challenging tasks

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2015

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781784395148

Length 378 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

LaTeX

Concepts

Document Preparation

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Stefan Kottwitz

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Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Preface

What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Sections
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support

1. The Variety of Document Types

Introduction
Writing a short text
Writing a thesis
Designing a book
Creating a presentation
Designing a curriculum vitae
Writing a letter
Producing a leaflet
Creating a large poster

2. Tuning the Text FREE CHAPTER

Introduction
Inputting accented characters
Improving justification and hyphenation
Converting numbers to words
Putting text into a colorful box
Visualizing the layout
Visualizing boxes of letters and symbols
Typesetting in a grid
Absolute positioning of text
Starting a paragraph with an over-sized letter
Fitting text to a shape
Creating a pull quote

3. Adjusting Fonts

Introduction
Choosing a font for a document
Locally switching to a different font
Importing just a single symbol from a font family
Writing bold mathematical symbols
Getting the sans serif mathematics font
Writing double stroke letters as if on a blackboard
Enabling the searching and copying of ligatures
Suppressing ligatures
Adding a contour

4. Working with Images

Introduction
Including images with optimal quality
Automating image positioning
Manipulating images
Adding a frame to an image
Cutting an image to get rounded corners
Shaping an image like a circle
Drawing over an image
Aligning images
Arranging images in a grid
Stacking images

5. Beautiful Designs

Introduction
Adding a background image
Creating beautiful ornaments
Preparing pretty headings
Producing a calendar
Mimicking keys and menu items

6. Designing Tables

Introduction
Creating a legible table
Adding footnotes to a table
Aligning numeric data
Coloring a table
Merging cells
Splitting a cell diagonally
Adding shape, shading, and transparency
Importing data from files

7. Contents, Indexes, and Bibliographies

Introduction
Tuning a table of contents, lists of figures, and tables
Creating a bibliography
Adding a glossary
Creating a list of acronyms
Producing an index

8. Getting the Most out of the PDF

Introduction
Adding hyperlinks
Adding metadata
Adding copyright information
Inserting comments
Producing fillable forms
Optimizing the output for e-book readers
Removing white margins
Combining PDF files
Creating an animation

9. Creating Graphics

Introduction
Building smart diagrams
Constructing a flowchart
Building a tree
Building a bar chart
Drawing a pie chart
Drawing a Venn diagram
Putting thoughts in a mind map
Generating a timeline

10. Advanced Mathematics

Introduction
Quick-start for beginners
Fine-tuning math formulas
Automatic line-breaking in equations
Highlighting in a formula
Stating definitions and theorems
Drawing commutative diagrams
Plotting functions in two dimensions
Plotting in three dimensions
Drawing geometry pictures
Doing calculations

11. Science and Technology

Introduction
Typesetting an algorithm
Printing a code listing
Application in graph theory
Writing physical quantities with units
Writing chemical formulae
Drawing molecules
Representing atoms
Drawing electrical circuits

12. Getting Support on the Internet

Introduction
Exploring online LaTeX resources
Using web forums
Framing a really good question
Creating a minimal example

Index

Chapter 12. Getting Support on the Internet

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Exploring online LaTeX resources
Using web forums
Framing a really good question
Creating a minimal example

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