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LaTeX Cookbook

You're reading from   LaTeX Cookbook Over 100 practical, ready-to-use LaTeX recipes for instant solutions

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781835080320
Length 424 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Exploring Various Document Classes FREE CHAPTER 2. Chapter 2: Tuning the Text 3. Chapter 3: Adjusting Fonts 4. Chapter 4: Creating Tables 5. Chapter 5: Working with Images 6. Chapter 6: Creating Graphics 7. Chapter 7: Creating Beautiful Designs 8. Chapter 8: Producing Contents, Indexes, and Bibliographies 9. Chapter 9: Optimizing PDF Files 10. Chapter 10: Writing Advanced Mathematics 11. Chapter 11: Using LaTeX in Science and Technology 12. Chapter 12: Getting Support on the Internet 13. Chapter 13: Using Artificial Intelligence with LaTeX 14. Index 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Mimicking keys, menu items, and terminal output

Technical documentation and software manuals often explain keyboard shortcuts, guide users through program menus, show terminal command output, and provide information on file locations.

This recipe helps in writing such guides.

How to do it...

We will use the menukeys package developed by Tobias Weh and Jonathan P. Spratte. Let’s keep it concise and try out the main commands. Follow these steps:

  1. Start a short document and load the menukeys package in it:
    \documentclass[parskip=full]{scrartcl}
    \usepackage{menukeys}
    \begin{document}
    \section*{Running \TeX works}
  2. In the body text, use \menu for menu entries, \keys for keyboard combinations, and \directory for a path, as follows:
    In the main menu, click \menu{Typeset > pdfLaTeX}
    for choosing the \TeX\ compiler. Then press
    \keys{\cmd + T} for typesetting.
    Click \menu{Window > Show > Fonts} for seeing
    the fonts used by the document.
    Press \keys{\shift + ...
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