You probably know how to add comments in Latex using the reserved character %. Many LaTeX editors provide functionality to comment/uncomment entire paragraphs of your document. However, what if you are using a basic text editor or prefer not to use a menu button? The comment package solves this by defining the comment environment. … [Read more…]
Different packages of Latex provide nice and easy-to-use environments for theorems, lemmas, proofs, etc. The following post will show you the mostly used layouts and how to change numbering. Theorem styles: For theorems, corollaries and lemmas, you need the following package: which allows you to define new environments using either: or where env_name: Environment name … [Read more…]
Adding links to PDFs , both internal and external, certainly only makes sense for digital copies of the file. Nevertheless, they still come in handy, for example for actual WWW-addresses or as direct reference inside a document. Local references As usual, you first need the package which handles the links: \usepackage{hyperref} This does the job … [Read more…]
The default page layout is “portrait”, but sometimes it is still useful/necessary to have the whole document or only single pages changed to “landscape”. The latter might be due to a large table or figure. This post will tell you how to change the page layout of the whole document or single pages to “landscape”. … [Read more…]
Creating headers and footers in Latex can be done by using the package “fancyhdr”. This is a short introduction, showing the most important features of the package. If you know “fancyhdr” and are looking for something particular, refer to the fancyhdr-documentation. First of all, you need to tell Latex to use the package: and change … [Read more…]