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…]
PDFs have meta document information which usually can be read and modified using standard PDF viewers such as Acrobat Reader or Preview (Mac). In Acrobat Reader search for “Properties” in the file-menu. When creating a document using LaTeX, the hyperref package helps setting some of these information, including: Title Author Subject Creator Producer Keywords and many … [Read more…]
A friend asked me today to help him convert a bibtex-file to a bibliography (\bibitem{}), since the journal he submits his paper to doesn’t accept bibtex-files (*.bib). So what we were trying to do is to convert a set of bibtex-references of the following form (from cell): to a format that understands, e.g.: There is … [Read more…]
I’ve been writing quite a bit of R code recently for my gene expression analysis. Also, I use Sweave (manual) which allows embedding R code “chunks” into TeX documents. When the code is being evaluated, the output (code, calculation results, plots, tables, etc.) will automatically integrated into the document as TeX syntax, making it an … [Read more…]
I stumbled across this package recently thanks to a comment by ofer. Basically, the etaremune package inverses the enumerate counter, making the indices decreasing rather than increasing. Basic example: Furthermore, to make the package more flexible, it offers different customizations. Starting number: The start option, lets you begin with an arbitrary number. In case the … [Read more…]