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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

Constructing a flowchart


In the previous recipe, Building smart diagrams, we used predefined chart types. In a case when we would need more flexibility, we can do it ourselves from scratch. It's also not too hard, and it's a very good way of learning to draw with TikZ.

We will create a flowchart depicting the decision-making procedure for choosing a math environment.

Similar to what we saw in our description diagram of the first recipe, we will do the following:

  1. Define shapes and colors.

  2. Place nodes using a matrix.

  3. Insert labeled arrows between selected nodes.

Of course, whatever is done in each step may be modified at any time. It's usual to place nodes and arrows at first, and then start fine-tuning shapes and colors.

So let's tackle it. Go through the following steps, and also look at the graphical output shown after them to understand the meaning of your drawing tasks:

  1. Start with a document class:

    \documentclass{article}
  2. We load the geometry package and specify a vertical margin so that the long...

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