…sections, chapters, pages, theorems, equations, references, etc. There are numerous potential commands in LaTeX one may consider counting in order to automatically output their total number of appearances in a document. The totcount package provides a simple way to do that. We will to consider two different cases, single commands (cite, section, chapter, etc.) and … [Read more…]
By default, equation numbers are place on the right side of an equation for any numbered math environment, such as equation, eqnarray, and align. Surprisingly, the equation number position can is changed through the optional documentclass argument leqno: Left numbering Right numbering (by default and therefore usually skipped): Here is a minimal working example: Align … [Read more…]
List items of numbered lists (enumerate) can be cross-referenced using the standard \label{} and \ref{} command pair. Cross-referencing description items is not supported by default, but can be done with a few additional lines of code in the preamble. Enumerate Ordered or numbered lists are cross-referenced with the label-ref command pair similar to figures, tables … [Read more…]
You don’t need to change to math mode every time you want to type a greek letter in normal text. Loading the textgreek package allows typesetting greek letters, generally just by adding a text-prefix to the letter name, e.g. for it would be: The letters will adapt to the font style you are using (bold, … [Read more…]
I was recently looking for a memorandum template when I came across a neat memo class, texMemo, written by Rob Oakes. It is based on the article documentclass and provides the following five commands: To: \memoto{}, From: \memofrom{}, Subject: \memosubject{}, Date: \memodate{}, and Logo: \logo{}. The usage is very simple, here is an example: The … [Read more…]