Tuning the Text
The previous chapter provided recipes for creating entire documents. You may use them as starting points. Now, we will focus on fine-tuning text elements, such as shaping paragraphs and manipulating, positioning, and arranging text.
This chapter shows recipes for:
- Improving justification and hyphenation
- Adding margin notes
- 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
- Adding drop caps
- Fitting text to a shape
- Creating a pull quote
We will not yet deal with fonts. This topic deserves a whole chapter and will be covered in Chapter 3, Adjusting Fonts.
This chapter will start with some fundamental principles, explore helpful techniques, and conclude with practical recipes that illustrate LaTeX’s capabilities that extend beyond conventional paragraph formatting.
