Guest post by Qutub Sajib While preparing a document in LaTeX, you may want to use colors for different purposes. Those purposes might be to color text or highlight text by changing its background color. You may even want to do both, highlight colored text. In this tutorial, we’re going to discuss how to color … [Read more…]
LaTeX has plenty of hidden treasures and it seems the graphics bundle is particular rich in surprises. For example, the package can crop figures on the fly (see my previous post). Recently, I was looking for a way to mirror text. Guess what, it’s the graphics bundle again. It implements commands for horizontal and vertical … [Read more…]
The font type LaTeX uses in math mode is somewhat special since it is optimized for writing mathematical formulas. Letters are printed in italics, with more space left in-between, spaces are ignored. In certain cases it may be desirable to include “normal text” within an equation. There is a simple way to add “normal text” … [Read more…]
Strict inequalities are widely used in math equations as well as within text for comparisons. They can be produced using the ordinary (inline) math-mode ($…$) without loading a specific package. In order to omit the math-mode within a text-paragraph, LaTeX knows text-mode commands for these symbols. Greater than (>): Less than (<): Non-strict inequalities ( … [Read more…]
I was often using any of the available “lorem ipsum” generators on the web while testing different things in LaTeX until I discovered that the Latex distribution provides packages generating blind text, which is definitely more convenient. With just a few lines of code, these packages will generate paragraphes, even whole documents with sections, paragraphs … [Read more…]