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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

Representing atoms

Now that we can draw molecules, how about digging deeper? Can we draw atoms? Sure!

How to do it...

We will use a package named after the famous physicist Niels Bohr. That's bohr.

  1. Start with a document class.
    \documentclass{article}
  2. Load the bohr package:
    \usepackage{bohr}
  3. Start the document:
    \begin{document}
  4. Use the command \bohr{number of electrons}{element name}, for Fluorine:
    \bohr{10}{F}
  5. We can modify the nucleus radius this way:
    \setbohr{nucleus-radius=1.5em}
  6. Now we have more space in the center for an ion symbol. This time we use the command with an optional argument for the number of electron shells since we need an empty one. We need to do that in square brackets. We will display a Sodium ion:
    \bohr[3]{10}{$\mathrm{Na^+}$}
  7. That's all for now! End the document:
    \end{document}
  8. Compile to see the result:
    How to do it...

How it works...

It was quite simple. Nevertheless, I wanted to show you how easy it can be to write about science today.

After loading the package, we just needed this command...

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