Pictures do not necessarily have to be placed inside the figure environment, but can perfectly be included inside table cells. The advantage is, you can without any effort arrange a series of images in a matrix and individually scale them. Or, you could combine text with images in a table. And here is how: You … [Read more…]
Obviously, LaTeX cannot only generate articles, reports and books, but also slides for presentations. This blog-entry is not an extensive introduction to slide-creation in LaTeX, but shows the basic concepts in a simple environment. There are other, more sophisticated commands than we introduce here, which are more powerful. But for simple slides with text and … [Read more…]
You probably know how to add comments in Latex using the reserved character %. Many LaTeX editors provide functionality to comment/uncomment entire paragraphs of your document. However, what if you are using a basic text editor or prefer not to use a menu button? The comment package solves this by defining the comment environment. … [Read more…]
Different packages of Latex provide nice and easy-to-use environments for theorems, lemmas, proofs, etc. The following post will show you the mostly used layouts and how to change numbering. Theorem styles: For theorems, corollaries and lemmas, you need the following package: which allows you to define new environments using either: or where env_name: Environment name … [Read more…]
Adding links to PDFs , both internal and external, certainly only makes sense for digital copies of the file. Nevertheless, they still come in handy, for example for actual WWW-addresses or as direct reference inside a document. Local references As usual, you first need the package which handles the links: \usepackage{hyperref} This does the job … [Read more…]