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Using draft to determine overfull hboxes

15. August 2007 by tom 8 Comments

Latex provides a draft-mode as an optional argument to the document class, having two main effects on the whole document. Draft is an optional argument of the document class and is therefore used as follows \documentclass[draft]{…} The two main effects mentioned before are: Marking overfull hboxes (no line-break within the margin) by a vertical line, … [Read more…]

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Posted in: LaTeX Tagged: article, cook, documentclass, draft, figure, LaTeX, letter, report

How to use Bibtex as a reference library for Latex

9. August 2007 by tom 31 Comments

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…]

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Posted in: Bibtex & biblatex, Introduction, LaTeX Tagged: article, bibliography, bibliographystyle, Bibtex & biblatex, book, citation, cite, LaTeX, report

Placing figures/tables side-by-side (\minipage)

1. August 2007 by tom 114 Comments

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…]

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Posted in: Figure & table, LaTeX, Tips & tricks Tagged: article, book, code, figure, LaTeX, minipage, report, table, tabular

\documentclass{book, report, article or letter}

9. July 2007 by tom 1 Comment

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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Posted in: Introduction, LaTeX Tagged: abstract, article, book, documentclass, LaTeX, letter, report, titlepage, twoside
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