When writing documents in TeX/LaTeX, it is important to understand how the TeX engine “thinks”. A paragraph is the basic text unit in a document and many TeX/LaTeX commands, when used properly, affect the current paragraph only. TeX provides a set of basic commands controlling the way a paragraphs are typeset. The following article explains … [Read more…]
The three most commonly used standard document-classes in LaTeX include: article, report and book. A number of global options allows customization of certain elements of the document by the author. Different document-classes might have different default settings. The following post illustrates available options with figures, provides alternatives and highlights the default option for each document-class. … [Read more…]
The paralist package implements the three standard lists: itemize, enumerate and description for usage within paragraphs. In other words, the package provides a way to create inline lists placed within normal text. Besides the inline environments for the standard lists, the package also provides support to format the labels (bullets, numbering, etc.). However, for labeling … [Read more…]
There are two ways (and possibly more) to place content side-by-side in a beamer presentation, the columns and the minipage environments. The first is a beamer-specific environment and is therefore only available in a beamer presentation. Whereas the latter has other applications and is available in all document-classes. General considerations In any LaTeX document, … [Read more…]
I always forget how to do this. If you have the same problem, here is a quick post for your bookmarks… Basic commands Using * as width in the multirow command, the text argument’s natural width is used (multirow package documentation). Multiple columns Multiple rows Multiple rows and columns The examples … [Read more…]