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LaTeX Cookbook : Over 90 hands-on recipes for quickly preparing LaTeX documents to solve various challenging tasks - Stefan Kottwitz

LaTeX Cookbook

Over 90 hands-on recipes for quickly preparing LaTeX documents to solve various challenging tasks

By: Stefan Kottwitz

Paperback | 30 October 2015

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A pragmatic guide with actionable recipes on LaTex to apply for tuning text, custom designs, fonts, embedding images, tables, advanced mathematics, and graphics for all your complex documents


Key Features:

- 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


Book Description:

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


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.


Table of Contents

- The Variety of Document Types

- Tuning the Text

- Adjusting the font

- Working with images

- Beautiful Designs

- Designing Tables

- Contents, Lists, and Bibliographies

- Getting the Most out of the PDF

- Creating Graphics

- Advanced Mathematics

- Science and Technology

- Getting Support on the Internet

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