I have been diving quite a bit during the past few months. Like most divers I met, I log my dives in a small booklet, a dive log book. Many dive shops sell their own dive log books, usually at around US$5-10. The motivation for creating my own dive log book is not so much … [Read more…]
Guest post by Qutub Sajib While preparing a document in LaTeX, you may want to use colors for different purposes. Those purposes might be to color text or highlight text by changing its background color. You may even want to do both, highlight colored text. In this tutorial, we’re going to discuss how to color … [Read more…]
Ideally, tables are quickly and easily readable. Removing repetitive content helps the reader to grasp the essential result quicker and makes tables more readable. A possible option to make a table more readable is to replace repetitive content across a column with an arrow. Preparations We will use TikZ to draw an arrow from … [Read more…]
This offer has expired! The author of LaTeX Beginner’s Guide, Stefan Kottwitz, just notified me that his book is freely available for download as ebook. This offer is only valid for today. If you are interested, you can get a copy from the publisher’s website through this link. For more information on the book, see the … [Read more…]
In the standard document classes report and book, figure and table counters are reset after every chapter. On the other hand, article does not reset these counters when a new section is started. The chngcntr package provides the \counterwithin and \counterwithout commands to redefine a counter, by adding or removing a dependency. Through these commands, … [Read more…]