I wrote a somewhat short post on list of figures and list of tables a few years ago. Nevertheless, it gets quite a bit of traffic, possibly due to the large number of comments. For that reason, I decided to put together another, more informative post on the same topic that includes table of contents. … [Read more…]
I recently wrote an article on side-by-side figures in LaTeX (TUGboat 34:1), based on a series of posts on this blog. For illustration of the code samples, I created a series of very basic Smileys faces for which I publish the code here. Let me know below if you have suggestions for improvement or ideas … [Read more…]
When multirow cells in LaTeX tables are colored, the text is partially hidden as illustrated by the example below. This happens because the color of the second row is added after typesetting the text of the first row. Solution: There is a simple solution to this problem. If the multirow command is placed in … [Read more…]
I was recently asked if there is a way to reverse the numbering of chapters in a report from n to 1. I didn’t find an easy way to do it which is why I decided to write a short post. Here is the minimal example used to produce the above output. I will explain … [Read more…]
I recently came across the menukeys package and found it very useful for software documentation and description of workflows. The output it creates is quite neat. Therefore, I will briefly introduce the main features and give some examples here. An example at the beginning Getting the package The package comes with the texlive … [Read more…]