In large documents, it is helpful to add a “mini-table-of-contents” at the beginning of every chapter in order to get a better overview of the chapter. The minitoc-package provides a nice, easy-to-use and customizable layout for TOCs on a chapter level. How to create a minitoc: Any minitoc can only be created if you have … [Read more…]
I got this very interesting question lately, how to define a custom list of examples, similar to the list of figures. But as this is not only applicable to examples, but to all sorts of things (e.g. questions, theorems, proofs, lemmas, answers, etc.) and hence might be useful for other people, I decided publish a … [Read more…]
Every package in Latex comes with its documentation. Hence, most LaTeX-distributions contain the “complete” documentation by default, which is accessible without an internet connection. In order to access a documentation file of any package, go to the command line and type: For example, to open the documentation of the hyperref package, use: The texdoc command opens … [Read more…]
Everyone knows the problem, in Latex a figure or table takes the whole width of a page. Even though you can have several figures/tables next to each other (see posts on minipage and subfigure), with none of these techniques it is possible to have floating text around a figure or table. Here is how you … [Read more…]
First include the “listings”-package into your document: \usepackage{listings} Basics Now you have basically two possibilities. Either you type/copy your source code directly into the Latex document: \begin{lstlisting} place your source code here \end{lstlisting} The other possibility is to directly include the source file: \lstinputlisting{filename.java} This is particularly useful if you are still editing your source … [Read more…]