The default page layout is “portrait”, but sometimes it is still useful/necessary to have the whole document or only single pages changed to “landscape”. The latter might be due to a large table or figure. This post will tell you how to change the page layout of the whole document or single pages to “landscape”. … [Read more…]
Creating headers and footers in Latex can be done by using the package “fancyhdr”. This is a short introduction, showing the most important features of the package. If you know “fancyhdr” and are looking for something particular, refer to the fancyhdr-documentation. First of all, you need to tell Latex to use the package: and change … [Read more…]
A glossary is a nice thing to have in a report and usually very helpful. As you probably can imaging, it is very easy to create in Latex. Nevertheless, there are a few things to be done, especially generating the glossary-files. First you have to tell Latex to use the glossary package and to create … [Read more…]
Remark: The subfigure package has been replace by subfig and is therefore obsolete. Please see my post on that topic. There are two different ways to place two figures/tables side-by-side. The subfigure package provides functionality to arrange figures and tables next to each other, within the usual figure-floating-environment. You can find a post on the … [Read more…]
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…]