This post is not to be taken too seriously, but to show that Latex is not only used by mathematicians and engineers, but actually has a very broad field of application with its thousands of packages available. LaTeX for Chemists: Helping chemists type their chemical symbols. chemsym LaTeX for Chefs: Helping chefs type their recipies. … [Read more…]
In large documents, it is helpful to add a “mini-table-of-contents” at the beginning of every chapter in order to get a better overview of the chapter. The minitoc-package provides a nice, easy-to-use and customizable layout for TOCs on a chapter level. How to create a minitoc: Any minitoc can only be created if you have … [Read more…]
I got this very interesting question lately, how to define a custom list of examples, similar to the list of figures. But as this is not only applicable to examples, but to all sorts of things (e.g. questions, theorems, proofs, lemmas, answers, etc.) and hence might be useful for other people, I decided publish a … [Read more…]
One of my last posts was on how to define the width of a column in a table (see here). The parbox (p), which is used by Latex when you define the column width, will by default align its content on the left. This can be changed, but is a bit tricky. The keyword is: … [Read more…]
I am sure you know the situation where you have several columns in a tabular which all are of the same type: Now this can be simplified as follows using the *(star) symbol: The advantages are obvious, the table can be easily extended, you don’t have to count the numerous c’s, l’s or r’s and … [Read more…]