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. รค \"a Now, if your editor is not doing it automatically (like Vim ๐ ), 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…]
This post is not to be taken too seriously, but to show that Latex is not only used by mathematicians and engineers, but actually has a very broad field of application with its thousands of packages available. LaTeX for Chemists: Helping chemists type their chemical symbols. chemsym LaTeX for Chefs: Helping chefs type their recipies. … [Read more…]
I just found this very cool package which lets you easily print two pages in one. I have only tested it for articles and reports and it works perfectly for articles. Using the document-class report, the content is perfectly structured, but not the table of contents, which still takes the entire page. The package also … [Read more…]