I am sure you know the situation where you have several columns in a tabular which all are of the same type: Now this can be simplified as follows using the *(star) symbol: The advantages are obvious, the table can be easily extended, you don’t have to count the numerous c’s, l’s or r’s and … [Read more…]
Latex will automatically adjust the width of a cell in a table. If you wish to have a table where each cell in a row has the same width, you would use the p option instead of l, c or r for left, centre or right alignment. Example:
Every package in Latex comes with its documentation. Hence, most LaTeX-distributions contain the “complete” documentation by default, which is accessible without an internet connection. In order to access a documentation file of any package, go to the command line and type: For example, to open the documentation of the hyperref package, use: The texdoc command opens … [Read more…]
Everyone knows the problem, in Latex a figure or table takes the whole width of a page. Even though you can have several figures/tables next to each other (see posts on minipage and subfigure), with none of these techniques it is possible to have floating text around a figure or table. Here is how you … [Read more…]
First include the “listings”-package into your document: \usepackage{listings} Basics Now you have basically two possibilities. Either you type/copy your source code directly into the Latex document: \begin{lstlisting} place your source code here \end{lstlisting} The other possibility is to directly include the source file: \lstinputlisting{filename.java} This is particularly useful if you are still editing your source … [Read more…]