I was recently asked an interesting question about how to place a sub-caption on top of a sub-figure. By default, sub-captions are produced below sub-figures. When using the subfigure package, the answer is reasonably easy. The package has an option to move the sub-captions on top of the figure. However, I was curious how other … [Read more…]
The rotating package provides easy-to-use functionality to rotate content. The float environments sidewaystable and sidewaysfigure introduce landscape tables and figures, respectively. The package automatically takes care of the rotation direction for twoside documents. Besides 90 degrees rotation, the package also provides a command and environment to rotate content at an arbitrary angle. Sidewaysfigure example … [Read more…]
Using standard cross-referencing in LaTeX only produces the label number, a name describing the label such as figure, chapter or equation has to be added manually. The cleveref package overcomes this limitation by automatically producing the label name and number. It further allows cross-referencing ranges of labels and multiple labels of the same or different … [Read more…]
When multirow cells in LaTeX tables are colored, the text is partially hidden as illustrated by the example below. This happens because the color of the second row is added after typesetting the text of the first row. Solution: There is a simple solution to this problem. If the multirow command is placed in … [Read more…]
There are two ways (and possibly more) to place content side-by-side in a beamer presentation, the columns and the minipage environments. The first is a beamer-specific environment and is therefore only available in a beamer presentation. Whereas the latter has other applications and is available in all document-classes. General considerations In any LaTeX document, … [Read more…]