I was asked to give an introduction to tables in LaTeX. Even though there are plenty of tutorials and pieces of LaTeX-code out there in the internet, it might still be useful to somebody who just started using Latex or has never used tables before… Table Let me start with the table-stub and later on … [Read more…]
The following is a summary of counter usage and manipulations available in LaTex. The following commands have a counter associated with it: part chapter section subsection subsubsection paragraph subparagraph page equation figure table footnote mpfootnote enumi enumii enumiii enumiv You have several possibilities to manipulate counters in LaTex: \addtocounter {counter} {value} increments the specified counter … [Read more…]
When I started using LaTex, I never bothered about dividing my report into several files. I ended up scrolling down hundreds of lines every time I wanted to make a little change somewhere in the document. It was only later that I learnt how to structure the whole story into different files and therefore omit … [Read more…]
Formatting code in LaTex is as astonishingly easy, once one knows how to do it. There is a command “tabbing”, which is used in the same way as for example “centering”, except that one has to tell the computer where to set a tab. \begin{tabbing} if \= (condition) \{ \\ % inserts a tab just … [Read more…]
A LaTeX document starts with the command \documentclass [option] {type}. The most common document-classes in LaTex are: book report article letter All of them are similar, except letter. The main differences can be summerised as follows: An “article” does not provide “chapter”, whereas “book” and “report” do. Thus, the first structuring element of an “article” … [Read more…]