Examples from The LaTeX Companion book (3rd edition)
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·September 12, 2025haunter
Not sure why is this posted here, pretty much useless without the book
maweki
Who doesn't own the third edition of the LaTeX Companion book?
psychoslave
Hmm, I guess most people. Just like TAOC, everybody talk about it and even those who buy it let it rot on a shelve.
I remember in university one of the professor coming to me during my master asking how did I achieved this fancy stuff in my report. Dude I just red the book, lol. I didn't manage to validate my M2 though, double lol. :D
sombragris
Well, it's a reference book, not a tutorial. You "let it rot on a shelve" until that moment when you need to achieve a specific outcome in your LaTeX code and then check out the book.
Just when I started to look back at latex to typeset some poetry of mine yesterday!
Been a while since I didn't touch it, so I didn't even have texlive installed on my Ubuntu box, and started a chase of dependency to make my French specific stuff to install. I still need to see if I can manage to make the three strophe I wrote be as rectangle shaped as possible, be it with automatic line break on a vers (not sure the term in English) to the next row right aligned and preceded with a [