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 multitoc package provides an easy and clean way to save space when producing a table of contents. It allows for two or more columns. Similarly, list of figures and list of tables can be compressed. The basics To produce a multi-column table of contents like the one above you’ll have to do the … [Read more…]
The tocloft package implements a number of commands to customize the table of contents, list of figures and list of tables. One of these commands provided by the package adds whitespace before entries. This is particularly neat for short documents, but might also improve the readability in longer content lists. However, it has its limitations … [Read more…]
Inspired by a question in the latex-community.org forum and on the basis of a solution to a similar question on tex.SX, I came up with some code to plot a heatmap based on matrix in form of a standard tabular environment. Single color example I will first consider a more basic case where the … [Read more…]
Using standard cross-referencing in LaTeX only produces the label number, a name describing the label such as figure, chapter or equation has to be added manually. The cleveref package overcomes this limitation by automatically producing the label name and number. It further allows cross-referencing ranges of labels and multiple labels of the same or different … [Read more…]