While preparing a manuscript for publication, it may become necessary to combine several sub-figure to a single figure outside the main LaTeX document. A possible reason may be package conflicts with the journal’s class- or style-file. Therefore, a journal might disallow usage of LaTeX packages such as subfigure, subfig, or subcaption. Another reason may be … [Read more…]
The document class options draft is extremely useful to speed up typesetting and visualize overfull \hbox warnings. Even more so, when you work on a large document. I previously introduced the draft and final options here and here. The ifdraft package adds more flexibility to the draft and final options. It implements three commands with … [Read more…]
By default, the table of contents (TOC), list of figures (LOF) and list of tables (LOT) are typeset as chapters when using the report document class. However, the level of the heading can be changed. In this post, I will show how to decrease the level of the TOC, LOF, and LOT to section. Similarly, … [Read more…]
A while ago, I wrote a post on how to write a letter using LaTeX. That post was based on the standard documentclass letter. Letters look different in different parts of the world. Furthermore, the standard class has certain limitations. Therefore, it is not surprising that a number of alternative letter classes and packages were … [Read more…]
The three most commonly used standard document-classes in LaTeX include: article, report and book. A number of global options allows customization of certain elements of the document by the author. Different document-classes might have different default settings. The following post illustrates available options with figures, provides alternatives and highlights the default option for each document-class. … [Read more…]