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Making page margins visible

4. April 2011 by tom 7 Comments

The package showframe makes the page margins visible and hence is a handy tool if you have problems with the document margins. It will display a box showing the margins as well as lines for the header and footer. If you only need to show margins for a particular page, use: and at the page: … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Introduction, LaTeX, Package, Tips & tricks Tagged: footer, header, LaTeX, margin, showframe, usepackage

Generating dummy text/blindtext with LaTeX for testing

26. February 2011 by tom 9 Comments

I was often using any of the available “lorem ipsum” generators on the web while testing different things in LaTeX until I discovered that the Latex distribution provides packages generating blind text, which is definitely more convenient. With just a few lines of code, these packages will generate paragraphes, even whole documents with sections, paragraphs … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Introduction, LaTeX, math, Package, Tips & tricks Tagged: babel, blinddescription, blinddocument, blindenumerate, blinditemize, blindlist, blindmathfalse, blindmathtrue, blindtext, code, description, dummy text, enumerate, itemize, LaTeX, lipsum, list, math, text, usepackage

Check syntax only, save time typesetting!

2. February 2011 by tom 4 Comments

Working on a large document? Producing output can take quite some time, but with the following tricks you can save some of it… Add the following two lines to your preamble and Latex will not produce any output pages, while still checking that your syntax is correct and working. Just comment out the second line … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Introduction, LaTeX, Package, Tips & tricks Tagged: code, LaTeX, preamble, syntaxonly, syntonly, typeset, usepackage

Add todo notes to your document

31. January 2011 by tom 9 Comments

This is amazing, easily add todo notes to your Latex file while you are still working on it. They will show up as a bubble on the right side of the PDF file, with a line pointing to the actual position in the text. Usage is as simple as that, include the package: Add todos: … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Introduction, LaTeX, Package, Tips & tricks Tagged: margin notes, tasks, todo, todonotes, usepackage

Add your logo to the title page using thispagestyle

27. January 2011 by tom 4 Comments

Adding your company’s logo or brand to the title page of an product description, general terms and conditions or news announcement makes it look more professional. This quick post shows an easy way how to do this using Latex. We define a simple fancy header for the title page, adding the logo to the right-hand … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Figure & table, LaTeX, Package, Tips & tricks Tagged: article, fancy, fancyhdr, fancyhead, figure, LaTeX, pagestyle, plain, thispagestyle, usepackage
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