I recently wrote about cropping figures using the graphics bundle. Here is another fancy way to get more out of your figures. The fancybox package implements commands for various boxes such as a box with round corners. The command shadowbox creates a black box with a shadow. It works with normal text, in math mode … [Read more…]
The dirtree package produces really nice directory trees. The input follows a predefined structure. Manually typing all directories and files in a root directory is painful, even for a relatively short number of items. I wrote a short perl script that outputs the file structure in the right format. It works on Linux and Mac … [Read more…]
The floating environments figure* and table* allow adding wide, single-column tables or figures in a two- or multicolumn document. Here is an example. Wide figure in a 3-column-document The example makes use of the multicol package. For two columns, it is sufficient to use the documentclass-option twocolumn. The starred version of figure, figure*, and … [Read more…]
Many books, theses and reports are written in LaTeX using the report or book document classes. Often, the authors make use of the default chapter style. There are, however, a great number of alternative styles available, some of which being very fancy or playful. This post is a collection of alternative chapter styles available, some … [Read more…]
I recently wanted to add a few empty lines to a document for taking handwritten notes on a printed copy. Somewhat similar to a package available for slides created with the document class beamer (see handoutWithNotes). However, I couldn’t find a package that allows me to do that. So I wrote a few lines of … [Read more…]