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Check syntax only, save time typesetting!

2. February 2011 by tom 4 Comments

Working on a large document? Producing output can take quite some time, but with the following tricks you can save some of it… Add the following two lines to your preamble and Latex will not produce any output pages, while still checking that your syntax is correct and working. Just comment out the second line … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Introduction, LaTeX, Package, Tips & tricks Tagged: code, LaTeX, preamble, syntaxonly, syntonly, typeset, usepackage

Add todo notes to your document

31. January 2011 by tom 9 Comments

This is amazing, easily add todo notes to your Latex file while you are still working on it. They will show up as a bubble on the right side of the PDF file, with a line pointing to the actual position in the text. Usage is as simple as that, include the package: Add todos: … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Introduction, LaTeX, Package, Tips & tricks Tagged: margin notes, tasks, todo, todonotes, usepackage

Add your logo to the title page using thispagestyle

27. January 2011 by tom 4 Comments

Adding your company’s logo or brand to the title page of an product description, general terms and conditions or news announcement makes it look more professional. This quick post shows an easy way how to do this using Latex. We define a simple fancy header for the title page, adding the logo to the right-hand … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Figure & table, LaTeX, Package, Tips & tricks Tagged: article, fancy, fancyhdr, fancyhead, figure, LaTeX, pagestyle, plain, thispagestyle, usepackage

Wrap text around figures and tables

13. May 2010 by tom 9 Comments

Latex provides the wrapfig package which lets you wrap text around figures. In not only saves place, but also embeds the figure nicely into your text. Add the wrapfig package in your preamble: And place the figure where you want to have it: and similarly for tables: Number of lines (optional) “r” for right and … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Figure & table, Introduction, LaTeX, Package, Tips & tricks Tagged: figure, table, usepackage, wrapfig, wrapfigure, wraptable

Excluding items from list-of-figures / list-of-tables

2. May 2010 by tom 6 Comments

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…]

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Posted in: Figure & table, Introduction, LaTeX, Package, Tips & tricks Tagged: caption, captionsetup, LaTeX, list of figures, list of tables, lof, lot
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