Trying to place an image (scan of one’s signature) between the closing and the name in a letter will unfortunately not result in a nice formatting. Latex automtically adds some space for a manual signature between the closing and the printed name. This space will not automatically disappear if you place your signature as an … [Read more…]
Imagine you have an appendix chapter that contains a whole set of figures, but you don’t want them to show up in the list of figures. The caption package does the trick for you: and then use to exclude figures from the LOF from that point onwards. Switching it on again can obviously be done … [Read more…]
Latex distinguishes between three different enumeration/itemization environments. Each of them provide four levels, which means you can have nested lists of up to four levels. Enumerate: The enumerate-environment is used to create numbered lists. If you like to change the appearance of the enumerator, the simplest way to change is to use the enumerate-package, giving … [Read more…]
Showing the total number of pages in addition to the actual page number is straight forward using the lastpage package. Now you can simply access the number of pages using: Note: You will have to typeset the DVI/PDF twice in order to get the number right. Example: Note: See this recent comment on how to … [Read more…]
Some Latex editors (like WinEdt) internally convert your umlauts to Lamport’s umlaut format, e.g. ä \"a Now, if your editor is not doing it automatically (like Vim 🙂 ), 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…]