Writing a thesis is a time-intensive endeavor. Fortunately, using LaTeX, you can focus on the content rather than the formatting of your thesis. The following article summarizes the most important aspects of writing a thesis in LaTeX, providing you with a document skeleton (at the end) and lots of additional tips and tricks. Document class … [Read more…]
Besides various online services and scripts, there are several LaTeX packages that generate tables directly from CSV (comma separated value) files. The advantage is everything is in the tex-file in one place and one doesn’t have to switch back and forth between website/script and LaTeX when changes are made. The drawback clearly is their limited … [Read more…]
While writing a presentation with beamer it may be convenient to have some backup/appendix slides ready as a support for answers to potential questions. By default, beamer will count the total number of slides, including the backup slides at the end of the presentation, leading to a wrong number of total slides intended for presentation. The package … [Read more…]
Update (April 2014): This package has not been updated in the past few years. You may want to use the more recent and more flexible glossaries package. Printing a list of abbreviations or symbols is one of these things (like so many) LaTeX provides a very simple and elegant solution for. The nomencl … [Read more…]
Writing my curriculum in LaTeX was a task that has been on my TODO-list for quite a while. I liked the style of my Word-written CV and I believed it would take hours to come up with a reasonable CV in LaTeX. Nevertheless, I recently sat down, began writing, and after not too long, I … [Read more…]