Some Latex editors (like WinEdt) internally convert your umlauts to Lamport’s umlaut format, e.g. รค \"a Now, if your editor is not doing it automatically (like Vim ๐ ), you basically have two possibilities Use Lamport’s umlaut format: \"{} Use a package that can handle umlauts and all characters having a code > 127 The … [Read more…]
Adding margin notes to a document is more convenient and better noticable than comments between the lines. Latex provides a very easy way to add margin notes without changing the margins of your document. You can add anything you like, e.g. a formula in the math environment, etc. And you don’t even need to use … [Read more…]
This post is not to be taken too seriously, but to show that Latex is not only used by mathematicians and engineers, but actually has a very broad field of application with its thousands of packages available. LaTeX for Chemists: Helping chemists type their chemical symbols. chemsym LaTeX for Chefs: Helping chefs type their recipies. … [Read more…]
In large documents, it is helpful to add a “mini-table-of-contents” at the beginning of every chapter in order to get a better overview of the chapter. The minitoc-package provides a nice, easy-to-use and customizable layout for TOCs on a chapter level. How to create a minitoc: Any minitoc can only be created if you have … [Read more…]
I got this very interesting question lately, how to define a custom list of examples, similar to the list of figures. But as this is not only applicable to examples, but to all sorts of things (e.g. questions, theorems, proofs, lemmas, answers, etc.) and hence might be useful for other people, I decided publish a … [Read more…]