Syntax highlighting in LaTeX using the listings package is very powerful. Below, I will provide a few examples for your convenience. First, let me briefly summarize the usage of the listings package. So below you’ll find a few complete code examples to reuse and modify for your purposes: “The Pseudo Code Box” This code was … [Read more…]
R and LaTeX work very well together. Let me show you how to generate a LaTeX table from a R variable. First, install the xtable package if it’s not already. Next load the package and create the tex-file with the table variable result. For illustration purposes, I create a matrix with random values. Since you … [Read more…]
The subfigure package was replace by the subfig package quite a while ago. I therefore decided to replace my old post on that topic (Placing figures/tables side-by-side with subfigure) with an introduction to the subfig package. The package simplifies the positioning, captioning (I wonder if that’s a word) and labeling of small “sub” figures and … [Read more…]
The longtable package defines an environment that has most of the features of the tabular environment. In addition however, tables may be broken by TeX’s standard page breaking algorithm. Furthermore, it uses the same counter “table” as the table environment and has a \caption{…} command. Finally, “longtables” will be listed in the list of tables … [Read more…]
Frankly speaking, I don’t know what this might be useful for. \the in front of any length command displays its value (in pt): displays their actual length in points. E.g. \textwidth in my case is translated to: . A list of length “macros” can be found on wikibooks. Use the layouts package to convert pt … [Read more…]