Different packages of Latex provide nice and easy-to-use environments for theorems, lemmas, proofs, etc. The following post will show you the mostly used layouts and how to change numbering. Theorem styles: For theorems, corollaries and lemmas, you need the following package: which allows you to define new environments using either: or where env_name: Environment name … [Read more…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
I recently had the following problem, I was using a label to reference a table where I placed the “tabular”- environment into the “small”- environment to decrease its size. The number indicated by the reference was not the table index, but rather the number of the section/subsection within which I placed the table. The problems … [Read more…]