Motivation LaTeX offers great functionality to create professionally looking tables. The default column types (left-aligned l; center-aligned c; and right-aligned r) adjust to the text size, rather than wrapping text automatically. This works well as long as the content in each cell is short and of similar length. However, often you want to display several … [Read more…]
Dear Reader, Unfortunately, I have had very little time to write articles during the past few months. Therefore, I am looking for people interested in writing articles for texblog.org. I am not looking for an expert LaTeX user, but someone with a genuine interest in learning more about the language as well as writing about … [Read more…]
I was asked more than once how to produce words instead of numbers in the chapter heading. This is fairly straight forward, but requires patching the chapter macro. I will show how to do this for chapter. However, this works similarly for part, section, and subsection. Loading the required packages First we load the … [Read more…]
Tables are great to visualize data in a structured way. Unfortunately, too often I see tables which are cluttered and difficult to read and interpret. It takes little to make them more presentable and easier to read. This post advocates tidy and lean tables, to the benefit of the reader. 1. Add a caption which … [Read more…]
When writing a scientific paper, one often provides supplementary materials together with the main manuscript. Supplementary materials can be additional figures, tables, or other materials not included in the main manuscript. However, since these materials are usually kept in a different physical file, they can not be referenced in the main manuscript using the standard … [Read more…]