According to Wikipedia, a glossary is an alphabetical list of terms in a particular domain of knowledge with the definitions for those terms. It doesn’t come as a surprise that there are several LaTeX packages that assist with the generation of glossaries. Among them are the nomencl package, the glossary package, and the glossaries package. … [Read more…]
This post summarizes symbols used in complex number theory. The set of complex numbers See here for a complete list of set symbols. Complex number notation Nothing unexpected here, the standard i or sometimes j is used. Real part Imaginary part
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 rotating package provides easy-to-use functionality to rotate content. The float environments sidewaystable and sidewaysfigure introduce landscape tables and figures, respectively. The package automatically takes care of the rotation direction for twoside documents. Besides 90 degrees rotation, the package also provides a command and environment to rotate content at an arbitrary angle. Sidewaysfigure example … [Read more…]
The fancyhdr package provides an easy and flexible way to customize the page style. Furthermore, the package makes it easy to define new page styles. In this post, I will briefly show how to define an alternative page style in general and illustrate two possible applications including complete code examples: Different page style in the … [Read more…]