I’m sure most of you have used \date{…} to print a date in a title (\maketitle) or letter. Probably you also know the more dynamic command \today to produce today’s date. Setting the date dynamically is not recommended (or even prohibited by some compilers) for usage in letters (i.e. \date{\today} or simply \date), since it … [Read more…]
The following post will show you how to better present your data in tables through coloring rows/columns or even single cells to highlight important data. You will need the following two packages, the first to define new colors and the latter to actually color the table: Let me first show you how to define a … [Read more…]
A random generator might come in handy at some point. The lcg package provides exactly that. All you have to do is load the package with options if needed. Available options: first: lower bound (), last: upper bound (), counter: name of the random number (overwritten if existing), seed: starting value for reproducibility, and quiet: … [Read more…]
The package showframe makes the page margins visible and hence is a handy tool if you have problems with the document margins. It will display a box showing the margins as well as lines for the header and footer. If you only need to show margins for a particular page, use: and at the page: … [Read more…]
I was often using any of the available “lorem ipsum” generators on the web while testing different things in LaTeX until I discovered that the Latex distribution provides packages generating blind text, which is definitely more convenient. With just a few lines of code, these packages will generate paragraphes, even whole documents with sections, paragraphs … [Read more…]