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Control the width of table columns (tabular) in LaTeX

3. June 2019 by tom 1 Comment

Motivation LaTeX offers great functionality to create professionally looking tables. The default column types (left-aligned l; center-aligned c; and right-aligned r) adjust to the text size, rather than wrapping text automatically. This works well as long as the content in each cell is short and of similar length. However, often you want to display several … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Figure & table, Introduction, LaTeX, Package, Tips & tricks Tagged: align, array, fixed, linebreak, multi-row, table, tabular, width, wrap

Aligning multiple figures or logos

26. February 2016 by tom 2 Comments

I was working on a presentation and had to place several logos at the end of a slide. Initially, I just added them using includegraphics. However, it looked terrible because each logo was of a different size. Obviously, I wanted to arrange them at least half-decently. For that, I aligned them vertically and added some … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Figure & table, LaTeX, Package, Tips & tricks Tagged: align, arrange, figure, horizontal, LaTeX, logo, vertical

Left equation numbering

5. April 2012 by tom 5 Comments

By default, equation numbers are place on the right side of an equation for any numbered math environment, such as equation, eqnarray, and align. Surprisingly, the equation number position can is changed through the optional documentclass argument leqno: Left numbering Right numbering (by default and therefore usually skipped): Here is a minimal working example: Align … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Introduction, LaTeX, Package, Tips & tricks Tagged: align, amsmath, documentclass, equation, LaTeX, left number, leqno, math, reqno, usepackage




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