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LaTeX Cookbook

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781784395148
Length 378 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Stefan Kottwitz Stefan Kottwitz
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. The Variety of Document Types FREE CHAPTER 2. Tuning the Text 3. Adjusting Fonts 4. Working with Images 5. Beautiful Designs 6. Designing Tables 7. Contents, Indexes, and Bibliographies 8. Getting the Most out of the PDF 9. Creating Graphics 10. Advanced Mathematics 11. Science and Technology 12. Getting Support on the Internet Index

Putting thoughts in a mind map


A mind map visualizes information or ideas. Usually, there's a main concept in the center and major concepts branching outward from it. Smaller ideas start from the major concepts, so a mind map can look like a spider web.

In this recipe, we will draw a mind map of the concepts of TeX.

How to do it...

We will use the TikZ mindmap library. Follow these steps:

  1. Start with a document class:

    \documentclass{article}
  2. Load the geometry package with the landscape option so that your wide mindmap will fit the page:

    \usepackage[landscape]{geometry}
  3. Then, load the tikz package:

    \usepackage{tikz}
  4. Next, load the mindmap TikZ library:

    \usetikzlibrary{mindmap}
  5. Load the dtklogos package to get additional TeX-related logo macros:

    \usepackage{dtklogos}
  6. Start the document and begin the TikZ picture:

    \begin{document}
    \begin{tikzpicture}
  7. Start a path with options:

      \path [
  8. Provide the mindmap option and choose the white text color:

        mindmap,
        text = white,
  9. Adjust the styles for the levels of...

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