Inspired by a question in the latex-community.org forum and on the basis of a solution to a similar question on tex.SX, I came up with some code to plot a heatmap based on matrix in form of a standard tabular environment. Single color example I will first consider a more basic case where the … [Read more…]
Seth Godin mentioned in his recent blog post on simple typography that certain fonts remind us of something. I’m not a professional. But for to fun it, I tried to reproduce Seth’s first example using PGF/TikZ. And here is the result (using LaTeX’s standard font Computer Modern). Below is the code. Just copy and paste … [Read more…]
Using standard cross-referencing in LaTeX only produces the label number, a name describing the label such as figure, chapter or equation has to be added manually. The cleveref package overcomes this limitation by automatically producing the label name and number. It further allows cross-referencing ranges of labels and multiple labels of the same or different … [Read more…]
I wrote a somewhat short post on list of figures and list of tables a few years ago. Nevertheless, it gets quite a bit of traffic, possibly due to the large number of comments. For that reason, I decided to put together another, more informative post on the same topic that includes table of contents. … [Read more…]
I recently wrote an article on side-by-side figures in LaTeX (TUGboat 34:1), based on a series of posts on this blog. For illustration of the code samples, I created a series of very basic Smileys faces for which I publish the code here. Let me know below if you have suggestions for improvement or ideas … [Read more…]