The following is a summary of counter usage and manipulations available in LaTex. The following commands have a counter associated with it: part chapter section subsection subsubsection paragraph subparagraph page equation figure table footnote mpfootnote enumi enumii enumiii enumiv You have several possibilities to manipulate counters in LaTex: \addtocounter {counter} {value} increments the specified counter … [Read more…]
When I started using LaTex, I never bothered about dividing my report into several files. I ended up scrolling down hundreds of lines every time I wanted to make a little change somewhere in the document. It was only later that I learnt how to structure the whole story into different files and therefore omit … [Read more…]
Formatting code in LaTex is as astonishingly easy, once one knows how to do it. There is a command “tabbing”, which is used in the same way as for example “centering”, except that one has to tell the computer where to set a tab. \begin{tabbing} if \= (condition) \{ \\ % inserts a tab just … [Read more…]
A LaTeX document starts with the command \documentclass [option] {type}. The most common document-classes in LaTex are: book report article letter All of them are similar, except letter. The main differences can be summerised as follows: An “article” does not provide “chapter”, whereas “book” and “report” do. Thus, the first structuring element of an “article” … [Read more…]
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