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On managing large documents

20. June 2016 by tom 12 Comments

  Whether you are working on a book, a doctoral thesis, or an extensive report, large documents can be difficult. The source code becomes confusing; you scroll back and forth to find what you are looking for; and processing the document can take minutes rather than seconds. In this article, I describe some tools and … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Introduction, LaTeX, Package, Tips & tricks Tagged: book, efficiency, focus, LaTeX, organization, report, thesis

Adding a column separator line and extra space between columns in LaTeX

25. January 2016 by tom Leave a Comment

Documents with two columns are very popular, especially in academic publishing. In other scenarios, it may be desirable to have three or even more columns. In this brief post, I show how to add a separator line between columns as well as how to adapt the space between columns, for a better visual separation of … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Introduction, LaTeX, Package, Tips & tricks Tagged: article, column, journal, LaTeX, line, multi column, multicol, rule, separation, space, twocolumn

How to define custom colors in LaTeX

8. December 2015 by tom 2 Comments

There are different ways to define a specific color in LaTeX. Often, I just choose a predefined color from the xcolor package or define a color using the RGB color model. However, I personally like the red!40!blue notation best. This creates purple with 40% red and 60% blue. In this post, I will introduce these … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Introduction, LaTeX, Package, Tips & tricks Tagged: color, colorlet, custom, definecolor, design, LaTeX, mix, red, shiny, style, usepackage, xcolor

Fancy boxes for theorem, lemma, and proof with mdframed

30. September 2015 by tom 42 Comments

The mdframed package implements a box environment that automatically breaks boxes across multiple pages. Moreover, it allows flexible box designs. An example from the documentation that I particularly like is titled: “Theorem with separate header and the help of TikZ (complex)”. In this article, I use the example to create environments for theorems, lemmas, and … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Introduction, LaTeX, math, Package, Tips & tricks Tagged: box, color, design, fancy box, frame, LaTeX, lemma, mdframed, page break, proof, theorem

Drawing trees with TikZ/PGF and LuaLaTeX

16. September 2015 by tom 14 Comments

TikZ/PGF is a flexible and powerful package for creating graphics in LaTeX. It’s syntax can be somewhat overwhelming at the beginning. In this post I show the basics of tree drawing using TikZ and LuaLaTeX.   The following code only works with LuaLaTeX. Make sure you use the lualatex engine rather than standard tex/latex for … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Introduction, LaTeX, Package, Tips & tricks Tagged: directed, edge, graph, LaTeX, node, pgf/TiKZ, TikZ, tree, usepackage
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