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Keeping things organized in large documents

4. December 2012 by tom 3 Comments

In large project such as dissertations or even books, it is important and necessary to keep the content organized. One way is to split a document, by chapter for example, and then load the parts using input or include. The catchfilebetweentags package offers a more flexible way to organize content. It let’s you store chunks … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Figure & table, Introduction, LaTeX, Package, Tips & tricks Tagged: catchfilebetweentags, chunks, equation, figure, LaTeX, newcommand, organization, table, usepackage

Stop loosing track of labels by displaying them in the PDF

2. October 2012 by tom 7 Comments

Sometimes it is hard to keep track of labels, particularly in large documents with many figures, tables or equations. Unless you remember all label names by heart, you will likely scroll up and down till you find the particular position in the text where the label is defined. The showlabels package provides a convenient way … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Bibtex & biblatex, Figure & table, Introduction, LaTeX, Package, Tips & tricks Tagged: cite, enumerate, equation, figure, label, LaTeX, showlabels, table, usepackage

Cropping the output file to its content in LaTeX

12. September 2012 by tom 4 Comments

The documentclass options a4paper or letterpaper are certainly not the right choices when creating a set of equations or vector graphics using TiKZ for embedding in another document or standalone usage. Ideally, the output file is automatically set to fit its content, possibly with some whitespace around it. The following post describes two possible ways: … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Figure & table, Introduction, LaTeX, Package, Tips & tricks Tagged: crop, crop page, documentclass, figure, fit page to content, LaTeX, pgf/TiKZ, preview, standalone, usepackage

Adding a shadow to a figure in LaTeX

13. August 2012 by tom 2 Comments

I recently wrote about cropping figures using the graphics bundle. Here is another fancy way to get more out of your figures. The fancybox package implements commands for various boxes such as a box with round corners. The command shadowbox creates a black box with a shadow. It works with normal text, in math mode … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Figure & table, LaTeX, Package, Tips & tricks Tagged: code, fancybox, figure, graphicx, LaTeX, math, shadow, shadowbox, usepackage

Wide figure/table in a twocolumn/multi-column document

30. July 2012 by tom 11 Comments

The floating environments figure* and table* allow adding wide, single-column tables or figures in a two- or multicolumn document. Here is an example.   Wide figure in a 3-column-document The example makes use of the multicol package. For two columns, it is sufficient to use the documentclass-option twocolumn. The starred version of figure, figure*, and … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Figure & table, LaTeX, Tips & tricks Tagged: dblfloatfix, figure, fixltx2e, LaTeX, multicol, single column, table, usepackage, wide figure
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