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Professional and clean tables with LaTeX

6. February 2017 by tom 10 Comments

Tables are great to visualize data in a structured way. Unfortunately, too often I see tables which are cluttered and difficult to read and interpret. It takes little to make them more presentable and easier to read. This post advocates tidy and lean tables, to the benefit of the reader. 1. Add a caption which … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Figure & table, Introduction, LaTeX, Package Tagged: array, book, booktabs, editor, LaTeX, style, table, tabular, typesetting

How to define custom colors in LaTeX

8. December 2015 by tom 2 Comments

There are different ways to define a specific color in LaTeX. Often, I just choose a predefined color from the xcolor package or define a color using the RGB color model. However, I personally like the red!40!blue notation best. This creates purple with 40% red and 60% blue. In this post, I will introduce these … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Introduction, LaTeX, Package, Tips & tricks Tagged: color, colorlet, custom, definecolor, design, LaTeX, mix, red, shiny, style, usepackage, xcolor

Changing font styles in LaTeX

10. August 2015 by tom Leave a Comment

I wrote an article about font sizes in LaTeX, which has become a hugely popular post. Other features of a font can be summarized as its style. The font style describes whether a font is with decorations (serif) or without (sans serif) as well as other features of its appreance (bold, italic, etc.). These features … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Introduction, LaTeX, Tips & tricks Tagged: bold, font, italic, LaTeX, monospace, sans serif, series, serif, shape, slant, small capitals, style, typewriter




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