There is a really nice package, lineno, which provides line-numbering and various options for customization, some of which I will discuss further below. The most common use is continuous line numbering throughout the document. The following two lines in the preamble will do the trick: Options Some of the options the package provides include: … [Read more…]
Have you ever tried to add a footnote to a table inside the tabular environment? Even though the index is printed, the search for the actual footnote will be in vain. One way to overcome this issue is by using longtable. The package handles footnotes really well. But it may be an overkill if your … [Read more…]
In large documents, you may end up with a pretty long list of figures or tables. In this post, I will show how to nicely structure these lists by adding subtitles. The whole thing turned out to be more tricky than I first thought, but more on that later. The my examples, I will show … [Read more…]
PDFs have meta document information which usually can be read and modified using standard PDF viewers such as Acrobat Reader or Preview (Mac). In Acrobat Reader search for “Properties” in the file-menu. When creating a document using LaTeX, the hyperref package helps setting some of these information, including: Title Author Subject Creator Producer Keywords and many … [Read more…]
Strict inequalities are widely used in math equations as well as within text for comparisons. They can be produced using the ordinary (inline) math-mode ($…$) without loading a specific package. In order to omit the math-mode within a text-paragraph, LaTeX knows text-mode commands for these symbols. Greater than (>): Less than (<): Non-strict inequalities ( … [Read more…]