Control float placement
If you’ve ever written a report with a lot of (big) pictures in it, you’ve probably also noticed that LaTeX sometimes places floats (e.g. figures, tables) on other pages than intended. Adding options...
View ArticleImprove your tables with booktabs
Besides the overall beauty of LaTeX, I was never really satisfied with the table environment. The vertical rules are quite useless in most cases and not exactly eye candy. There is a must have package...
View ArticleAutomatic, clever references with cleveref
I recently came into contact with a LaTeX package that saves me quite a bit of time: the cleveref package. This package is very easy to use, so I will start explaining things right away! But first,...
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 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...
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How to create table cells of multiple rows in LaTeX
You may have encountered the problem where you wanted to merge multiple cells in a table column. Especially in the table headers (the leftmost column), this is not unthinkable. In this post, a simple...
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