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Adding line numbers to documents

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There is a really nice package, lineno, which provides line-numbering and various options for customization, some of which I will discuss further below. The most common use is continuous line numbering throughout the document. The following two lines in the preamble will do the trick:   Options Some of the options the package provides include: … [Read more…]

Generating dummy text/blindtext with LaTeX for testing

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I was often using any of the available “lorem ipsum” generators on the web while testing different things in LaTeX until I discovered that the Latex distribution provides packages generating blind text, which is definitely more convenient. With just a few lines of code, these packages will generate paragraphes, even whole documents with sections, paragraphs … [Read more…]