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Inline lists in LaTeX using paralist

1. February 2013 by tom 11 Comments

The paralist package implements the three standard lists: itemize, enumerate and description for usage within paragraphs. In other words, the package provides a way to create inline lists placed within normal text. Besides the inline environments for the standard lists, the package also provides support to format the labels (bullets, numbering, etc.). However, for labeling … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Introduction, LaTeX, Package, Tips & tricks Tagged: description, enumerate, inline, inparadesc, inparaenum, inparaitem, item, itemize, LaTeX, list, paragraph, paralist

Side-by-side content in beamer presentations

21. January 2013 by tom 4 Comments

There are two ways (and possibly more) to place content side-by-side in a beamer presentation, the columns and the minipage environments. The first is a beamer-specific environment and is therefore only available in a beamer presentation. Whereas the latter has other applications and is available in all document-classes.   General considerations In any LaTeX document, … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Figure & table, Introduction, LaTeX Tagged: beamer, column, columns, figure, itemize, LaTeX, linewidth, minipage, table, textwidth

Multi-column and multi-row cells in LaTeX tables

21. December 2012 by tom 72 Comments

I always forget how to do this. If you have the same problem, here is a quick post for your bookmarks…   Basic commands Using * as width in the multirow command, the text argument’s natural width is used (multirow package documentation).   Multiple columns   Multiple rows   Multiple rows and columns The examples … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Figure & table, Introduction, LaTeX, Package, Tips & tricks Tagged: cline, hline, LaTeX, multicolumn, multirow, table, tabular, usepackage

Keeping things organized in large documents

4. December 2012 by tom 3 Comments

In large project such as dissertations or even books, it is important and necessary to keep the content organized. One way is to split a document, by chapter for example, and then load the parts using input or include. The catchfilebetweentags package offers a more flexible way to organize content. It let’s you store chunks … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Figure & table, Introduction, LaTeX, Package, Tips & tricks Tagged: catchfilebetweentags, chunks, equation, figure, LaTeX, newcommand, organization, table, usepackage

Correctly typesetting paragraphs in LaTeX

7. November 2012 by tom 4 Comments

In LaTeX, paragraphs are ended by leaving a blank line between the end of the previous and the beginning of the next paragraph, never through a combination of end-line (\\) and new-line (\newline) commands.   A standard paragraph   Changing the standard behavior The new paragraph automatically gets indented a little with no extra vertical … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Introduction, LaTeX, Package, Tips & tricks Tagged: baselineskip, LaTeX, newline, paragraph, parindent, parskip, rubber length, setlength, spacing, usepackage
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