In a thesis, report or book one can often find a list of figures and a list of tables. Latex provides a simple command for both of them which will collect all your figures and/or tables and automatically generate a list. This is another great example which nicely shows how powerful LaTex is compared to … [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…]
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…]