Have you ever tried to add a footnote to a table inside the tabular environment? Even though the index is printed, the search for the actual footnote will be in vain. One way to overcome this issue is by using longtable. The package handles footnotes really well. But it may be an overkill if your … [Read more…]
In large documents, you may end up with a pretty long list of figures or tables. In this post, I will show how to nicely structure these lists by adding subtitles. The whole thing turned out to be more tricky than I first thought, but more on that later. The my examples, I will show … [Read more…]
I put together this list of 10 ways to customize the Table of Contents, List of Figures and List of Tables. Some of them are pretty common, some may be new to you. Hope you enjoy the list… Some pieces of code below require the tocloft package which provides extensive customization functionality for table of … [Read more…]
In one of my previous posts I describe how to color or shade every other row in a LaTeX table. However, there is a much nicer, cleaner and simpler way to color every odd/even row, making tables much more readable. First load the xcolor package in the preamble: and define any color you like, e.g. … [Read more…]
I recently edited a table with data. One column contained a text description which was rather long. So I wondered if there is a way to reduce the font size of the whole column rather than for each cell individually. And this is what I figured out: Using the column type b{width} it is further … [Read more…]