I was often using any of the available “lorem ipsum” generators on the web while testing different things in LaTeX until I discovered that the Latex distribution provides packages generating blind text, which is definitely more convenient. With just a few lines of code, these packages will generate paragraphes, even whole documents with sections, paragraphs … [Read more…]
Working on a large document? Producing output can take quite some time, but with the following tricks you can save some of it… Add the following two lines to your preamble and Latex will not produce any output pages, while still checking that your syntax is correct and working. Just comment out the second line … [Read more…]
Adding your company’s logo or brand to the title page of an product description, general terms and conditions or news announcement makes it look more professional. This quick post shows an easy way how to do this using Latex. We define a simple fancy header for the title page, adding the logo to the right-hand … [Read more…]
Trying to place an image (scan of one’s signature) between the closing and the name in a letter will unfortunately not result in a nice formatting. Latex automtically adds some space for a manual signature between the closing and the printed name. This space will not automatically disappear if you place your signature as an … [Read more…]
Imagine you have an appendix chapter that contains a whole set of figures, but you don’t want them to show up in the list of figures. The caption package does the trick for you: and then use to exclude figures from the LOF from that point onwards. Switching it on again can obviously be done … [Read more…]