I just found this very cool package which lets you easily print two pages in one. I have only tested it for articles and reports and it works perfectly for articles. Using the document-class report, the content is perfectly structured, but not the table of contents, which still takes the entire page. The package also … [Read more…]
One of my last posts was on how to define the width of a column in a table (see here). The parbox (p), which is used by Latex when you define the column width, will by default align its content on the left. This can be changed, but is a bit tricky. The keyword is: … [Read more…]
I am sure you know the situation where you have several columns in a tabular which all are of the same type: Now this can be simplified as follows using the *(star) symbol: The advantages are obvious, the table can be easily extended, you don’t have to count the numerous c’s, l’s or r’s and … [Read more…]
Latex will automatically adjust the width of a cell in a table. If you wish to have a table where each cell in a row has the same width, you would use the p option instead of l, c or r for left, centre or right alignment. Example:
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…]