LaTeX Cookbook: Over 100 Practical, Ready-to-Use LaTeX Recipes for Instant Solutions (Second Edition)

LaTeX can do far more than set a page of text—and this recipe-led guide shows how to put that flexibility to work. Stefan Kottwitz’s LaTeX Cookbook brings together more than 100 practical examples, from choosing a document class to shaping typography, building tables, and creating graphics.

The second edition updates examples for newer LaTeX and package versions, adds material, and includes a chapter on using ChatGPT with LaTeX. Instead of asking readers to work through one long project from beginning to end, it offers focused recipes to consult when a particular document or typesetting challenge comes up.

Recipes for real document types

Start with examples for articles, theses, books, presentations, CVs, letters, leaflets, and posters. The book then turns to the details that help documents read and look better: text layout, fonts, mathematical symbols, tables, images, and PDF properties.

Make the details of typesetting work for you

Recipes cover practical tasks such as adjusting justification and hyphenation, positioning text, selecting fonts, merging table cells, aligning numerical data, and adding table footnotes. Seeing techniques applied to specific problems can help LaTeX users understand how to adapt them to their own documents.

Graphics, references, and newer workflows

Later material addresses graphics, diagrams and plots, as well as supporting parts of a polished document such as bibliographies, glossaries, and indexes. The revised edition also explores ways ChatGPT can assist with LaTeX questions, content work, and code generation.

A useful companion for LaTeX users

With examples spanning common academic and professional documents, this reference is suited to readers who already work with LaTeX and want targeted solutions at hand. Browse by task, follow a recipe, and adapt the approach to the document in front of you.