A while ago, I wrote a post on how to write a letter using LaTeX. That post was based on the standard documentclass letter. Letters look different in different parts of the world. Furthermore, the standard class has certain limitations. Therefore, it is not surprising that a number of alternative letter classes and packages were … [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…]
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…]
Letters are still rarely written in Latex, even though its so simple and straight forward. With this post we hope to convince at least some people to write letters using Latex. The advantages are obvious, you get a standard layout (which can be changed if necessary), the output is in PDF-format and last but not … [Read more…]
Three different styles have to be distinguished when creating multiple columns in a Latex document. Either we want the whole document to have two columns, single pages or only part of a page. In order to do so, three different Latex commands are used… Whole document (using article to write a paper): The only thing … [Read more…]