While writing a presentation with beamer it may be convenient to have some backup/appendix slides ready as a support for answers to potential questions. By default, beamer will count the total number of slides, including the backup slides at the end of the presentation, leading to a wrong number of total slides intended for presentation. The package … [Read more…]
Update (April 2014): This package has not been updated in the past few years. You may want to use the more recent and more flexible glossaries package. Printing a list of abbreviations or symbols is one of these things (like so many) LaTeX provides a very simple and elegant solution for. The nomencl … [Read more…]
Writing my curriculum in LaTeX was a task that has been on my TODO-list for quite a while. I liked the style of my Word-written CV and I believed it would take hours to come up with a reasonable CV in LaTeX. Nevertheless, I recently sat down, began writing, and after not too long, I … [Read more…]
…sections, chapters, pages, theorems, equations, references, etc. There are numerous potential commands in LaTeX one may consider counting in order to automatically output their total number of appearances in a document. The totcount package provides a simple way to do that. We will to consider two different cases, single commands (cite, section, chapter, etc.) and … [Read more…]
By default, equation numbers are place on the right side of an equation for any numbered math environment, such as equation, eqnarray, and align. Surprisingly, the equation number position can is changed through the optional documentclass argument leqno: Left numbering Right numbering (by default and therefore usually skipped): Here is a minimal working example: Align … [Read more…]