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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

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2015

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781784395148

Length 378 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

LaTeX

Concepts

Document Preparation

Author (1):

Stefan Kottwitz

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

LaTeX Cookbook

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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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

Chapter 3. Adjusting Fonts

This chapter contains recipes that will help you to benefit from the wealth of fonts. We will specifically cover the following:

Choosing a document font
Locally switching to a different font
Importing just a single symbol of a font
Writing bold mathematical symbols
Getting the sans serif mathematics font
Writing double stroke letters as if on a blackboard
Enabling the searching and copying of ligatures
Suppressing ligatures
Adding a contour

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Authors (1)

Stefan Kottwitz

Stefan Kottwitz

Stefan Kottwitz studied mathematics in Jena and Hamburg. He works as a network and IT security engineer both for Lufthansa Industry Solutions and for Eurowings Aviation. For many years, he has been providing LaTeX support on online forums. He maintains the web forums LaTeX and goLaTeX and the Q&A sites TeXwelt and TeXnique. He runs the TeX graphics gallery sites TeXample, TikZ, and PGFplots, the TeXlive online compiler, the TeXdoc service, and the CTAN software mirror. He is a moderator of the TeX Stack Exchange site and matheplanet. He publishes ideas and news from the TeX world on his blogs LaTeX and TeX. Before this book, he authored the first edition of LaTeX Beginner's Guide in 2011, and LaTeX Cookbook in 2015, both published by Packt.

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