LaTeX has plenty of hidden treasures and it seems the graphics bundle is particular rich in surprises. For example, the package can crop figures on the fly (see my previous post). Recently, I was looking for a way to mirror text. Guess what, it’s the graphics bundle again. It implements commands for horizontal and vertical … [Read more…]
A while ago, I wrote a post on how to write a letter using LaTeX. That post was based on the standard documentclass letter. Letters look different in different parts of the world. Furthermore, the standard class has certain limitations. Therefore, it is not surprising that a number of alternative letter classes and packages were … [Read more…]
The rotating package provides easy-to-use functionality to rotate content. The float environments sidewaystable and sidewaysfigure introduce landscape tables and figures, respectively. The package automatically takes care of the rotation direction for twoside documents. Besides 90 degrees rotation, the package also provides a command and environment to rotate content at an arbitrary angle. Sidewaysfigure example … [Read more…]
The fancyhdr package provides an easy and flexible way to customize the page style. Furthermore, the package makes it easy to define new page styles. In this post, I will briefly show how to define an alternative page style in general and illustrate two possible applications including complete code examples: Different page style in the … [Read more…]
Everybody is talking about making research reproducible. With the integration of knitr in RStudio, reproducible research has been made available to people who are less familiar with the Terminal. All you need is some basics in R and LaTeX and you can generate reports directly from within RStudio. With a few tweaks, RStudio automatically generates … [Read more…]