A random generator might come in handy at some point. The lcg package provides exactly that. All you have to do is load the package with options if needed. Available options: first: lower bound (), last: upper bound (), counter: name of the random number (overwritten if existing), seed: starting value for reproducibility, and quiet: … [Read more…]
The package showframe makes the page margins visible and hence is a handy tool if you have problems with the document margins. It will display a box showing the margins as well as lines for the header and footer. If you only need to show margins for a particular page, use: and at the page: … [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…]
Working on a large document? Producing output can take quite some time, but with the following tricks you can save some of it… Add the following two lines to your preamble and Latex will not produce any output pages, while still checking that your syntax is correct and working. Just comment out the second line … [Read more…]
This is amazing, easily add todo notes to your Latex file while you are still working on it. They will show up as a bubble on the right side of the PDF file, with a line pointing to the actual position in the text. Usage is as simple as that, include the package: Add todos: … [Read more…]