The rotating package provides easy-to-use functionality to rotate content. The float environments sidewaystable and sidewaysfigure introduce landscape tables and figures, respectively. The package automatically takes care of the rotation direction for twoside documents. Besides 90 degrees rotation, the package also provides a command and environment to rotate content at an arbitrary angle. Sidewaysfigure example … [Read more…]
The fancyhdr package provides an easy and flexible way to customize the page style. Furthermore, the package makes it easy to define new page styles. In this post, I will briefly show how to define an alternative page style in general and illustrate two possible applications including complete code examples: Different page style in the … [Read more…]
Everybody is talking about making research reproducible. With the integration of knitr in RStudio, reproducible research has been made available to people who are less familiar with the Terminal. All you need is some basics in R and LaTeX and you can generate reports directly from within RStudio. With a few tweaks, RStudio automatically generates … [Read more…]
The multitoc package provides an easy and clean way to save space when producing a table of contents. It allows for two or more columns. Similarly, list of figures and list of tables can be compressed. The basics To produce a multi-column table of contents like the one above you’ll have to do the … [Read more…]
The tocloft package implements a number of commands to customize the table of contents, list of figures and list of tables. One of these commands provided by the package adds whitespace before entries. This is particularly neat for short documents, but might also improve the readability in longer content lists. However, it has its limitations … [Read more…]