I found myself using the same TeX distribution for years, without updating it. This is not a problem usually, unless you are asking someone else to look at a particular error or problem and that person is working with another version and therefore may not be able to reproduce your issue. The TeX Live distribution … [Read more…]
Frankly speaking, I don’t know what this might be useful for. \the in front of any length command displays its value (in pt): displays their actual length in points. E.g. \textwidth in my case is translated to: . A list of length “macros” can be found on wikibooks. Use the layouts package to convert pt … [Read more…]
Beamer is a LaTeX document class that provides extensive functionality to create presentations. Here, I will only show the basics and after reading this guide you will be able to create a simple presentation in LaTeX. I am aware there are a lot of tutorials available out there and this is not different from any … [Read more…]
I’m sure most of you have used \date{…} to print a date in a title (\maketitle) or letter. Probably you also know the more dynamic command \today to produce today’s date. Setting the date dynamically is not recommended (or even prohibited by some compilers) for usage in letters (i.e. \date{\today} or simply \date), since it … [Read more…]
The following post will show you how to better present your data in tables through coloring rows/columns or even single cells to highlight important data. You will need the following two packages, the first to define new colors and the latter to actually color the table: Let me first show you how to define a … [Read more…]