This is the code repository for LaTeX Cookbook, published by Packt.

Over 100 practical, ready-to-use LaTeX recipes for instant solutions

This book provides over a hundred practical LaTeX examples that’ll help you learn how to customize text to suit your needs. It covers various document types and delves into specific solutions for tables, images, diagrams, and plots.

This book covers the following exciting features:

• Utilize various document classes and incorporate bibliography, glossary, and index sections
• Handle arranging and annotating images with ease
• Create visually appealing tables and learn how to manage fonts efficiently
• Generate diverse and colorful graphics, including diagrams, flow charts, bar charts, trees, and both 2D and 3D plots
• Solve writing and drawing tasks across various scientific disciplines
• Optimize PDF output, enhancing it with metadata, annotations, popups, animations, and fill-in fields
• Leverage ChatGPT to improve content and code

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All the code is organized into folders. For example, Chapter02.

The code will look like the following:

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\end{document}

To build the documents, you can either use the tools mentioned in the book, or use the script in the root of this repository, build.sh. For example, the following command will build the pdf file for the first example in the book: build.sh 01-Exploring-Various-Document-Classes/01-short-text.tex

Following is what you need for this book:

If you're a LaTeX user in school, academia, or industry with a foundational understanding of LaTeX basics, this book offers efficient solutions to expedite your tasks. Tailored to students, teachers, authors, and engineers, its example-driven format enables quick access to solutions. Familiarity with basic LaTeX syntax and using LaTeX with your preferred editor for compiling is recommended to make the most of this book.

• LaTeX Beginner's Guide [Packt] [Amazon] [Book website]

• LaTeX Graphics with TikZ [Packt] [Amazon] [Book website]

Stefan Kottwitz studied mathematics in Jena and Hamburg. He works as a network and IT security engineer at Lufthansa Industry Solutions.

For numerous years, Stefan has been providing LaTeX support on internet forums. He manages the web forums LaTeX.org and goLaTeX.de, along with the question-and-answer platforms TeXwelt.de and TeXnique.fr. He maintains the TeX graphics gallery sites TeXample.net, TikZ.net, and PGFplots.net, the TeXlive.net online compiler, the TeXdoc.org documentation service, and the CTAN.net software mirror.

A moderator of the TeX Stack Exchange site and matheplanet.com, he publishes ideas and news from the TeX world on his blogs LaTeX.net and TeX.co.

He also authored the LaTeX Beginner’s Guide in 2011, with the second edition in 2021, and LaTeX Graphics with TikZ in 2023, all published by Packt.