Three different styles have to be distinguished when creating multiple columns in a Latex document. Either we want the whole document to have two columns, single pages or only part of a page. In order to do so, three different Latex commands are used… Whole document (using article to write a paper): The only thing … [Read more…]
Having all your references in a BibTeX-file (*.bib) is more convenient for reusage than typing or copy the whole list of references everytime you are writing a new book, report or article. Therefore, it is worth to learn how to use BibTeX from the beginning, it will save you a lot of time… BibTeX offers … [Read more…]
I was asked to give an introduction to tables in LaTeX. Even though there are plenty of tutorials and pieces of LaTeX-code out there in the internet, it might still be useful to somebody who just started using Latex or has never used tables before… Table Let me start with the table-stub and later on … [Read more…]
Including images in a report is very common in LaTeX. Structuring your work nicely is probably the most obvious reason why you want to put two figures/tables side-by-side. Another reason might be to save space, wherever a smaller size of an image is sufficient. The following code can be used to place two figures side-by-side … [Read more…]
In a thesis, report or book one can often find a list of figures and a list of tables. Latex provides a simple command for both of them which will collect all your figures and/or tables and automatically generate a list. This is another great example which nicely shows how powerful LaTex is compared to … [Read more…]