According to Wikipedia a drop cap or initial is a letter at the beginning of a published or written work, chapter or paragraph that is larger than the rest of the text. I have to admit however that the following initial is not a LaTeX creation, but it nicely illustrates what I am talking about. Note: The … [Read more…]
The longtable package defines an environment that has most of the features of the tabular environment. In addition however, tables may be broken by TeX’s standard page breaking algorithm. Furthermore, it uses the same counter “table” as the table environment and has a \caption{…} command. Finally, “longtables” will be listed in the list of tables … [Read more…]
I found myself using the same TeX distribution for years, without updating it. This is not a problem usually, unless you are asking someone else to look at a particular error or problem and that person is working with another version and therefore may not be able to reproduce your issue. The TeX Live distribution … [Read more…]
Frankly speaking, I don’t know what this might be useful for. \the in front of any length command displays its value (in pt): displays their actual length in points. E.g. \textwidth in my case is translated to: . A list of length “macros” can be found on wikibooks. Use the layouts package to convert pt … [Read more…]
Beamer is a LaTeX document class that provides extensive functionality to create presentations. Here, I will only show the basics and after reading this guide you will be able to create a simple presentation in LaTeX. I am aware there are a lot of tutorials available out there and this is not different from any … [Read more…]