Number sets such as natural numbers () or complex numbers () are not provided by default by LaTeX. It doesn’t mean that LaTeX doesn’t know those sets, or more importantly their symbols… There are two packages which provide the same set of symbols. You can choose to load either of them: Now, you have access … [Read more…]
I recently had the following problem, I was using a label to reference a table where I placed the “tabular”- environment into the “small”- environment to decrease its size. The number indicated by the reference was not the table index, but rather the number of the section/subsection within which I placed the table. The problems … [Read more…]
Latex provides a draft-mode as an optional argument to the document class, having two main effects on the whole document. Draft is an optional argument of the document class and is therefore used as follows \documentclass[draft]{…} The two main effects mentioned before are: Marking overfull hboxes (no line-break within the margin) by a vertical line, … [Read more…]
Letters are still rarely written in Latex, even though its so simple and straight forward. With this post we hope to convince at least some people to write letters using Latex. The advantages are obvious, you get a standard layout (which can be changed if necessary), the output is in PDF-format and last but not … [Read more…]
Three different styles have to be distinguished when creating multiple columns in a Latex document. Either we want the whole document to have two columns, single pages or only part of a page. In order to do so, three different Latex commands are used… Whole document (using article to write a paper): The only thing … [Read more…]