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…]
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…]
The draftwatermark package implements a few simple commands for adding watermarks to documents. It provides some flexibility that is sufficient in most cases. A basic example: The following 5 properties of a watermark can be modified through commands defined by the package. Text (default DRAFT): The following command controls the watermark text: To … [Read more…]
Latex provides a draft-mode as an optional argument to the document class, having two main effects on the whole document. Draft is an optional argument of the document class and is therefore used as follows \documentclass[draft]{…} The two main effects mentioned before are: Marking overfull hboxes (no line-break within the margin) by a vertical line, … [Read more…]