I was often using any of the available “lorem ipsum” generators on the web while testing different things in LaTeX until I discovered that the Latex distribution provides packages generating blind text, which is definitely more convenient. With just a few lines of code, these packages will generate paragraphes, even whole documents with sections, paragraphs … [Read more…]
Working on a large document? Producing output can take quite some time, but with the following tricks you can save some of it… Add the following two lines to your preamble and Latex will not produce any output pages, while still checking that your syntax is correct and working. Just comment out the second line … [Read more…]
First include the “listings”-package into your document: \usepackage{listings} Basics Now you have basically two possibilities. Either you type/copy your source code directly into the Latex document: \begin{lstlisting} place your source code here \end{lstlisting} The other possibility is to directly include the source file: \lstinputlisting{filename.java} This is particularly useful if you are still editing your source … [Read more…]
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…]
Formatting code in LaTex is as astonishingly easy, once one knows how to do it. There is a command “tabbing”, which is used in the same way as for example “centering”, except that one has to tell the computer where to set a tab. \begin{tabbing} if \= (condition) \{ \\ % inserts a tab just … [Read more…]