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…]
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…]
I wrote a somewhat short post on list of figures and list of tables a few years ago. Nevertheless, it gets quite a bit of traffic, possibly due to the large number of comments. For that reason, I decided to put together another, more informative post on the same topic that includes table of contents. … [Read more…]
I recently wrote an article on side-by-side figures in LaTeX (TUGboat 34:1), based on a series of posts on this blog. For illustration of the code samples, I created a series of very basic Smileys faces for which I publish the code here. Let me know below if you have suggestions for improvement or ideas … [Read more…]
I was recently asked if there is a way to reverse the numbering of chapters in a report from n to 1. I didn’t find an easy way to do it which is why I decided to write a short post. Here is the minimal example used to produce the above output. I will explain … [Read more…]