The animate package allows to include JavaScript driven animations into a pdf created with LaTeX. This can be particularly useful for beamer presentations. The biggest caveat upfront: the animations are only supported by some pdf readers (AcrobatReader, PDF-XChange, acroread, and Foxit Reader). Using ImageMagick to convert an animated gif into several png files The animate … [Read more…]
The R package animation has a function saveLatex() which creates a tex document (and compiles it) with the animation created by your R code. It essentially produces the individual image files and a tex file that uses the LaTeX package animate to create the animation in the pdf. Here is an example of an R … [Read more…]
I recently wrote an article on side-by-side figures in LaTeX (TUGboat 34:1), based on a series of posts on this blog. For illustration of the code samples, I created a series of very basic Smileys faces for which I publish the code here. Let me know below if you have suggestions for improvement or ideas … [Read more…]
I recently wrote about cropping figures using the graphics bundle. Here is another fancy way to get more out of your figures. The fancybox package implements commands for various boxes such as a box with round corners. The command shadowbox creates a black box with a shadow. It works with normal text, in math mode … [Read more…]
Syntax highlighting in LaTeX using the listings package is very powerful. Below, I will provide a few examples for your convenience. First, let me briefly summarize the usage of the listings package. So below you’ll find a few complete code examples to reuse and modify for your purposes: “The Pseudo Code Box” This code was … [Read more…]