• About
    • Cookie Policy
  • Code Snippets
    • Beamer (presentation)
    • Figures
    • Lists
    • Standard classes
    • Tables
  • Consulting
  • LaTeX Installation
  • Posting Questions
  • TeX/LaTeX Resources

texblog

because LaTeX matters

custom

How to define custom colors in LaTeX

8. December 2015 by tom 2 Comments

There are different ways to define a specific color in LaTeX. Often, I just choose a predefined color from the xcolor package or define a color using the RGB color model. However, I personally like the red!40!blue notation best. This creates purple with 40% red and 60% blue. In this post, I will introduce these … [Read more…]

Share this:

  • Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X
  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook
  • Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit
  • Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) LinkedIn
  • Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email
Posted in: Introduction, LaTeX, Package, Tips & tricks Tagged: color, colorlet, custom, definecolor, design, LaTeX, mix, red, shiny, style, usepackage, xcolor

DIY Scuba Diving Log Book

22. July 2015 by tom 3 Comments

I have been diving quite a bit during the past few months. Like most divers I met, I log my dives in a small booklet, a dive log book. Many dive shops sell their own dive log books, usually at around US$5-10. The motivation for creating my own dive log book is not so much … [Read more…]

Share this:

  • Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X
  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook
  • Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit
  • Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) LinkedIn
  • Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email
Posted in: Introduction, LaTeX, Tips & tricks Tagged: book, booklet, custom, diving, DIY, LaTeX, log, scuba, template




Consulting

Need help with your thesis or book project? Let’s discuss.

Join 6,570 other subscribers
doi2bib




Top Posts & Pages

  • Multi-column and multi-row cells in LaTeX tables
  • Control the width of table columns (tabular) in LaTeX
  • Big O and related notations in LaTeX
  • Changing the font size in LaTeX
  • LaTeX documentclass options illustrated

Tags

addcontentsline array article bibliography Bibtex & biblatex book caption chapter citation cite code color definecolor description documentclass draft enumerate equation fancyhdr figure graphicx hyperref includegraphics item itemize label landscape LaTeX letter listoffigures listoftables math minipage reference renewcommand report section subfigure table tableofcontent tabular text TikZ usepackage xcolor

Copyright © 2025 texblog.

Omega Child WordPress Theme by ThemeHall