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LaTeX Cookbook
LaTeX Cookbook

LaTeX Cookbook: Over 90 hands-on recipes for quickly preparing LaTeX documents to solve various challenging tasks

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Key benefits

  • Work with modern document classes, such as KOMA-Script classes
  • Explore the latest LaTeX packages, including TikZ, pgfplots, and biblatex
  • An example-driven approach to creating stunning graphics directly within LaTeX

Description

LaTeX is a high-quality typesetting software and is very popular, especially among scientists. Its programming language gives you full control over every aspect of your documents, no matter how complex they are. LaTeX's huge amount of customizable templates and supporting packages cover most aspects of writing with embedded typographic expertise. With this book you will learn to leverage the capabilities of the latest document classes and explore the functionalities of the newest packages. The book starts with examples of common document types. It provides you with samples for tuning text design, using fonts, embedding images, and creating legible tables. Common document parts such as the bibliography, glossary, and index are covered, with LaTeX's modern approach.You will learn how to create excellent graphics directly within LaTeX, including diagrams and plots quickly and easily. Finally, you will discover how to use the new engines XeTeX and LuaTeX for advanced programming and calculating with LaTeX. The example-driven approach of this book is sure to increase your productivity.

Who is this book for?

If you already know the basics of LaTeX and you like to get fast, efficient solutions, this is the perfect book for you. If you are an advanced reader, you can use this book's example-driven format to take your skillset to the next level. Some familiarity with the basic syntax of LaTeX and how to use the editor of your choice for compiling is required.

What you will learn

  • Choose the right document class for your project to customize its features
  • Utilize fonts globally and locally
  • Frame, shape, arrange, and annotate images
  • Add a bibliography, a glossary, and an index
  • Create colorful graphics including diagrams, flow charts, bar charts, trees, plots in 2d and 3d, time lines, and mindmaps
  • Solve typical tasks for various sciences including math, physics, chemistry, electrotechnics, and computer science
  • Optimize PDF output and enrich it with meta data, annotations, popups, animations, and fillin fields
  • Explore the outstanding capabilities of the newest engines and formats such as XeLaTeX, LuaLaTeX, and LaTeX3

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Publication date : Oct 28, 2015
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Table of Contents

13 Chapters
1. The Variety of Document Types Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
2. Tuning the Text Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
3. Adjusting Fonts Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
4. Working with Images Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
5. Beautiful Designs Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
6. Designing Tables Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
7. Contents, Indexes, and Bibliographies Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
8. Getting the Most out of the PDF Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
9. Creating Graphics Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
10. Advanced Mathematics Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
11. Science and Technology Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
12. Getting Support on the Internet Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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A splendid book that should be read if you want to learn latex. The exhibition is clear and minimalist so that learning is fun.
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Zen Lobo Mar 15, 2019
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Excellent book covering many very advanced types of documents that can be prepared using LaTeX
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D. Lee Dec 27, 2020
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Great book. It provides some good examples but more importantly contained what I needed. It’s also nice because I don’t have to search discussion post hoping to find the information.
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xyah Sep 28, 2017
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todo ok, gracias por todo, en orden y a tiempo. gracias por todo, muy bueno, tks all ok, tks. bien
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Mark Sep 15, 2016
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This book showcases a great many possible uses of LaTeX, many of them surprising and useful. The "recipes" can quickly be used to setup templates. Even if you don't use the "recipes" for the purpose the author intended, they're easy to apply for other purposes, and showing what you can learn about later. LaTeX is a gradual learning process, easy to start with, but difficult to master. I'm no scientist or academic, but after skimming through sections, and diligently reading others, I feel empowered. At least I know what's possible and where to begin to get started. The greatest obstacle for new users of LaTeX isn't understanding how to learn it, but what they can learn to do with it. This answers that in depth.The authors other book for beginning LaTeX is the best FirstStudy available. And I would recommend this book to top it off. Both of these together have helped to make me a LaTeX enthusiast. Yes, this author has nailed it twice in a row.
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