Over 100 hands-on recipes to quickly prepare LaTeX documents of
various kinds to solve challenging tasks
About This Book
- 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
In Detail
LaTeX is both a word processor and a markup language. It's pretty simple
really, which is why its unsurprising that its so popular within the
research community - whether you're a scientist or statistician, with
LaTeX, you'll find it easy to present and communicate your work - it
gives you full control of the documents you create, no matter how
complex they might be. With a huge range of customizable templates and
supporting packages available, there's plenty to explore - so you can
make LaTeX work for you. LaTeX Cookbook shows you how to get the most
from LaTeX - so you can focus on what's important.
Inside, you'll find everything from different templates and document
types, samples for fine-tuning text design, guidance through embedding
images, as well as drawing tables in LaTeX. With essential components to
the modern research document included, such as creating a bibliography,
glossary, and index, you can be confident that your document is clean
and clear.
You will also learn how to create graphics within LaTeX, and find vital
tips to help you build diagrams with minimum fuss. If that isn't enough,
the book also shows you how to use new engines XeTeX and LuaTeX which
give LaTeX further functionality so you can handle any complexity with
ease and elegance. If you're worried about presenting or communicating
ideas and research for maximum impact, look no further than this book -
it's sure to increase your productivity.
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 fill-in fields
- Explore the outstanding capabilities of the newest engines and formats
such as XeLaTeX, LuaLaTeX, and LaTeX3
