Including images in a report is very common in LaTeX. Structuring your work nicely is probably the most obvious reason why you want to put two figures/tables side-by-side. Another reason might be to save space, wherever a smaller size of an image is sufficient. The following code can be used to place two figures side-by-side … [Read more…]
In a thesis, report or book one can often find a list of figures and a list of tables. Latex provides a simple command for both of them which will collect all your figures and/or tables and automatically generate a list. This is another great example which nicely shows how powerful LaTex is compared to … [Read more…]
The following is a summary of counter usage and manipulations available in LaTex. The following commands have a counter associated with it: part chapter section subsection subsubsection paragraph subparagraph page equation figure table footnote mpfootnote enumi enumii enumiii enumiv You have several possibilities to manipulate counters in LaTex: \addtocounter {counter} {value} increments the specified counter … [Read more…]
When I started using LaTex, I never bothered about dividing my report into several files. I ended up scrolling down hundreds of lines every time I wanted to make a little change somewhere in the document. It was only later that I learnt how to structure the whole story into different files and therefore omit … [Read more…]
Formatting code in LaTex is as astonishingly easy, once one knows how to do it. There is a command “tabbing”, which is used in the same way as for example “centering”, except that one has to tell the computer where to set a tab. \begin{tabbing} if \= (condition) \{ \\ % inserts a tab just … [Read more…]