Horizontal rule under section titles
In textbooks, sections are often emphasized in by an horizontal rule below the the section title. Here’s how to do that in LaTeX, using the sectsty package. When using this package, new command become...
View ArticleBeautiful fractions and units with the unit package
When dealing with mathematics, especially with fractions, you might not be satisfied with the way \frac (and \dfrac) look. Me neither! Especially in inline fractions. Similar, when dealing with...
View ArticleControl float placement (Part 2)
If you’re reading this blog, its unnecessary to convince you of the advantages of (La)TeX over typesetting software like Microsoft Word. However, one of the main flaws I always struggle with is the way...
View ArticleFloat control part 3: Floats underneath footnotes
Last week I wrote a new post on float control and today a new problem occurred while I was typesetting a report: A table was placed underneath the footnotes, which is wrong and ugly! Fortunately, the...
View ArticleCompact lists with paralist
The space occupied by list environments in LaTeX (itemize, enumerate, etc.) is sometimes a bit too much. For example, when you need to save space in your document or simply because you don’t like the...
View ArticleThe nag package warns you for incorrect LaTeX usage
Although (La)TeX is already more than 30 years old, it is still optimized and updated. LaTeX commands, classes and packages may therefore become obsolete or outdated. It’s no fun to keep track of all...
View ArticleChange margins of a single page
Once in a while I write a document with a lot of large figures in it. It then may occur that you want to change the margins of a single page in order to fit a number of figures in one page. This can be...
View Article9 essential LaTeX packages everyone should use
Originally, I started this blog to help the very beginners of LaTeX. I have to admit that the horizon got a little wider since the day howtoTeX.com was launched and that is (in my eyes) not a bad...
View ArticleManage your labels with the showkeys package
Here’s another LaTeX trick that might come in handy. With the showkeys package, the labels you’ve defined are printed in the margins of the document. This way you have a perfect overview of which label...
View ArticleHow to add Bibliography (and more) to Table of Contents
I often wonder why the bibliography of LaTeX documents is not shown in the Table of Contents by defaults. Happily enough, I wasn’t the only one wondering this. That is why the tocbibind package was...
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