Customize the date format in your LaTeX documents
Today I’m writing about a package that will allow you to change the format in which the date is printed in the title of your LaTeX documents. I’m talking about the datetime package. This package also...
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 ArticleBeautiful MATLAB figures in LaTeX
Probably the most important part of a (scientific) document are the figures. The main reason is that “a picture is worth a thousand words”. On this blog, quite a few post have been dedicated to figures...
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 LaTeX commands, classes and packages may therefore become obsolete or outdated.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 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 ArticleCreate a simple nomenclature with the longtable package
There are plenty of LaTeX packages that enable users to create a nomenclature (also called glossary or list of symbols); some make use of makeindex or xindy, others use bibtex. I think a nomenclature...
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 ArticleReset footnotes counter every page
A previous post on this blog explained how to make sure footnotes are placed underneath floats (which is not a standard in LaTeX). This post is written for another trick with footnotes: resetting the...
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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