Adding links to PDFs , both internal and external, certainly only makes sense for digital copies of the file. Nevertheless, they still come in handy, for example for actual WWW-addresses or as direct reference inside a document. Local references As usual, you first need the package which handles the links: \usepackage{hyperref} This does the job … [Read more…]
The default page layout is “portrait”, but sometimes it is still useful/necessary to have the whole document or only single pages changed to “landscape”. The latter might be due to a large table or figure. This post will tell you how to change the page layout of the whole document or single pages to “landscape”. … [Read more…]
Creating headers and footers in Latex can be done by using the package “fancyhdr”. This is a short introduction, showing the most important features of the package. If you know “fancyhdr” and are looking for something particular, refer to the fancyhdr-documentation. First of all, you need to tell Latex to use the package: and change … [Read more…]
A glossary is a nice thing to have in a report and usually very helpful. As you probably can imaging, it is very easy to create in Latex. Nevertheless, there are a few things to be done, especially generating the glossary-files. First you have to tell Latex to use the glossary package and to create … [Read more…]
Usually figures are placed where there is enough space, e.g. for begin{figure}[ht] at the beginning of the next page. Sometimes, some or all figures are placed at the end of the document. What if you want to place the figure within your text, because you have other figures which you do not want to place … [Read more…]