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Have you ever tried to add a footnote to a table inside the tabular environment? Even though the index is printed, the search for the actual footnote will be in vain. One way to overcome this issue is by using longtable. The package handles footnotes really well. But it may be an overkill if your [...]
Thierry Laronde, the author of kerTeX explains, that the first aim of the very small system kerTeX is and will remain to be an easily obtainable TeX system, that is not only TeX but also METAFONT and the fonts, because a minimal TeX system is hard to get today, when large TeX distributions exist with OS dependencies. Minimum requirement is a libc, and for building a minimal subset of POSIX utilities. For the future, the next step will be unicode support via utf-8. Support for PDF as native format is not planned.
The fourth Alpha version of the upcoming TeXnicCenter 2.0 has been released. It brings many changes, such as support for preprocessors, for TortoiseSVN and for 64 bit systems.
It all started a few days ago, when we had a question on TeX.sx about using TeX for (nearly) any kind of document. In one of the answers, our friend Andrew Stacey mentioned that he even does his kids birthday invitations in TeX; in the comments, Stefan Kottwitz asked for seeing this TikZ birthday cake, [...]
Previously, I wrote a post on how to make the LaTeX compilation process faster by compiling only parts of large documents. This time a tip is given for those who use TikZ figures and experience slow compilation of their documents. This is especially the case when converting figures from MATLAB to TikZ using the matlab2tikz routine (due to the largeRead more
As an expert, can you always use TeX for (nearly) any kind of document? Read more...
In my previous post, I introduced the idea of a token list variable, the LaTeX3 term for a macro used to store ‘stuff’. Token list variables (tl vars) are the basis of many of the higher level data types in LaTeX3, and they also have arbitrary contents. As a result, there are a lot of [...]
If you aren’t aware of the possibility before this, you read the title right, it’s possible to do mail-merging in LaTeX with e.g. the versatile datatool package. This makes LaTeX quite a handy Swiss knife in a pinch. The example scenario: you need to produce a batch of letters, name cards, or certificates really quickly. Let’s say certificates of appreciation for some long-serving employees. The recipients list has most probably been compiled by someone, as a spreadsheet like this: Now all spreadsheet applications should be able to export the worksheet as a comma-separated values (CSV) plain text file, so we have namelist.csv with the following contents: Name,ID,Gender,Years in Service Abdul Ali,382473856,M,15 Francesca Joestar,461276432,F,10 Chan Ker Mei,463724631,F,5 Hikaru Yagami,154954739,M,10 The datatool package can then load namelist.csv as a simple database, which each line being a record, consisting of fields delimited by commas. By default, the field names are given by the first line of the .csv file. After assigning macros to the field names, we can then use the macros to insert ‘mail merge’ fields into a LaTeX document. Here’s a quick example, using the wallpaper package and an external image (image courtesy of fromoldbooks.org) for the decorative frame: % Use ...
In large documents, you may end up with a pretty long list of figures or tables. In this post, I will show how to nicely structure these lists by adding subtitles. The whole thing turned out to be more tricky than I first thought, but more on that later. The my examples, I will show [...]
Agodemar posted a very nice diagram of the LaTeX workflow on TeX.SX: ...
I’ve finally joined twitter for the blog! This was a long awaited item on my to do list and I’ve even received a couple of emails from readers with the request for a twitter account (thanks for that, feedback is greatly appreciated). Follow howtoTeX.com on twitter: @howtoTeX On this twitter account I will not only tweet about posts on thisRead more
For a school research project I followed, a small paper needed to be written afterwards. It was required to do this in MS Word, as a template was made that needed to be used. However, as I’m working with LaTeX for quite a while now, I didn’t want to use MS Word. The only option for me was to recreateRead more
PDFs have meta document information which usually can be read and modified using standard PDF viewers such as Acrobat Reader or Preview (Mac). In Acrobat Reader search for “Properties” in the file-menu. When creating a document using LaTeX, the hyper ref package helps setting some of these information, including: Title Author Subject Creator Producer Keywords and [...]
For large and highly customized documents, preambles can be lengthy. Should all packages be loaded before macros are defined? Or should packages and related definitions be close together? What about externalizing settings, and handling package dependencies? Here are some recommendations.
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