The subfigure package was replace by the subfig package quite a while ago. I therefore decided to replace my old post on that topic (Placing figures/tables side-by-side with subfigure) with an introduction to the subfig package. The package simplifies the positioning, captioning (I wonder if that’s a word) and labeling of small “sub” figures and … [Read more…]
The longtable package defines an environment that has most of the features of the tabular environment. In addition however, tables may be broken by TeX’s standard page breaking algorithm. Furthermore, it uses the same counter “table” as the table environment and has a \caption{…} command. Finally, “longtables” will be listed in the list of tables … [Read more…]
Imagine you have an appendix chapter that contains a whole set of figures, but you don’t want them to show up in the list of figures. The caption package does the trick for you: and then use to exclude figures from the LOF from that point onwards. Switching it on again can obviously be done … [Read more…]
Pictures do not necessarily have to be placed inside the figure environment, but can perfectly be included inside table cells. The advantage is, you can without any effort arrange a series of images in a matrix and individually scale them. Or, you could combine text with images in a table. And here is how: You … [Read more…]
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…]