TikZ/PGF is a flexible and powerful package for creating graphics in LaTeX. It’s syntax can be somewhat overwhelming at the beginning. In this post I show the basics of tree drawing using TikZ and LuaLaTeX. The following code only works with LuaLaTeX. Make sure you use the lualatex engine rather than standard tex/latex for … [Read more…]
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…]
In the standard document classes report and book, figure and table counters are reset after every chapter. On the other hand, article does not reset these counters when a new section is started. The chngcntr package provides the \counterwithin and \counterwithout commands to redefine a counter, by adding or removing a dependency. Through these commands, … [Read more…]
The document class options draft is extremely useful to speed up typesetting and visualize overfull \hbox warnings. Even more so, when you work on a large document. I previously introduced the draft and final options here and here. The ifdraft package adds more flexibility to the draft and final options. It implements three commands with … [Read more…]