You probably know how to emphasise text by making it italicised or bold. But did you know there were other possibilities to emphasise text in Latex? Standard method to emphasise text: \emph{}: italics Complete list of possibilities provided by Latex: \textit{} % italics \textbf{} % bold \texttt{} % typewriter style \textsf{} % sans-serif \textsc{} % all … [Read more…]
Pictures do not necessarily have to be placed inside the figure environment, but can perfectly be included inside table cells. The advantage is, you can without any effort arrange a series of images in a matrix and individually scale them. Or, you could combine text with images in a table. And here is how: You … [Read more…]
Obviously, LaTeX cannot only generate articles, reports and books, but also slides for presentations. This blog-entry is not an extensive introduction to slide-creation in LaTeX, but shows the basic concepts in a simple environment. There are other, more sophisticated commands than we introduce here, which are more powerful. But for simple slides with text and … [Read more…]
You probably know how to add comments in Latex using the reserved character %. Many LaTeX editors provide functionality to comment/uncomment entire paragraphs of your document. However, what if you are using a basic text editor or prefer not to use a menu button? The comment package solves this by defining the comment environment. … [Read more…]
Different packages of Latex provide nice and easy-to-use environments for theorems, lemmas, proofs, etc. The following post will show you the mostly used layouts and how to change numbering. Theorem styles: For theorems, corollaries and lemmas, you need the following package: which allows you to define new environments using either: or where env_name: Environment name … [Read more…]