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Reverse numbering for chapters, sections, etc.

3. April 2013 by tom 1 Comment

I was recently asked if there is a way to reverse the numbering of chapters in a report from n to 1. I didn’t find an easy way to do it which is why I decided to write a short post. Here is the minimal example used to produce the above output. I will explain … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Introduction, LaTeX, Package, Tips & tricks Tagged: chapter, count down, descending, header, LaTeX, regtotcounter, reverse, section, thechapter, thesection, totcount

Adding additional structure to the list of figures/tables

18. January 2012 by tom 68 Comments

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…]

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Posted in: Figure & table, LaTeX, Package, Tips & tricks Tagged: addcontentsline, addtocontents, caption, chapter, contentsline, etoolbox, figure, LaTeX, listoffigures, listoftables, newcommand, renewcommand, table, thechapter, usepackage




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