Archive for category: LaTeX

LaTeX tabular Environment with Both Defined Column Width and Alignment

29 July, 2010 (06:30) | LaTeX, [English Posts] | By: Wolfgang

Probably the easiest way to set a specific column width and a certain type of alignment is to use the package ragged2e:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{inputenc}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{ragged2e}

\begin{document}
\begin{tabular}{p{20mm} >{\RaggedLeft}p{20mm} }
foo & bar \\
\end{tabular}
\end{document}

If you don't want to use the ragged2e package the following works too. Note that now \tabularnewline instead of \\ is necessary in order to typeset the ...

Adding a Custom Entry to the Table of Contents of an LaTeX Document

4 July, 2010 (06:30) | LaTeX, [English Posts] | By: Wolfgang

Sometimes it is necessary that the section heading isn't listed in the table of contents of a LaTeX document as is, but as a slightly modified entry. To show how to do so, I chose to additionally list the author of a section in the TOC but not in the section heading itself.

\documentclass{report}

\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\vspace{20mm}

\newcommand{\titlE}{Lorem Ipsum ...

Synchronization Between LaTeX File (MacVim) and PDF (Skim) with SyncTeX

2 July, 2010 (06:30) | LaTeX, Mac OS X, [English Posts] | By: Wolfgang

Todays short post describes how to enable inverse search in a typical LaTeX workflow on OS X. That means, that by clicking somewhere on the pdflatex/xelatex generated PDF, MacVim will be opened or brought to foreground, and the cursor jumps to the corresponding location in the LaTeX file. Although usage of the following components ...

LaTeX pdfpages Package and Page Numbers

27 June, 2010 (06:30) | LaTeX, [English Posts] | By: Wolfgang

Sometimes I like to have page numbers on pages I use pdfpages on. I searched for a solution quite a while until I finally found one in the package's manual (The least obvious location to search for it, of course ;). Here is the solution so you don't have to RTFM too:

By default, the ...

XeTeX Font Size

16 June, 2010 (01:04) | LaTeX, [English Posts] | By: Wolfgang

To adjust the font size in XeTeX add the Scale option as shown below:
\setsansfont{Helvetica}

Avoiding a Page Break when Using the pdfpages Package in LaTeX

18 May, 2010 (20:23) | LaTeX, [English Posts] | By: Wolfgang

Every so often I want to add a whole multipage PDF-Document to the appendix of a LaTeX document. To do so I use the great pdfpages package which can be found at http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/pdfpages/.
If your TeX distribution doesn't come with pdfpages preinstalled, install it and then add \usepackage{pdfpages} to your preamble.

The only problem is that ...

Umlaute in LaTeX-Dokumenten unter OS X

14 May, 2010 (00:45) | LaTeX, Mac OS X, Vim, [Deutschsprachige Einträge] | By: Wolfgang

Durch Verwendung einer der beiden nachfolgend angeführten Methoden sollten Probleme mit Umlauten am Mac endgültig der Vergangenheit angehören:

Kodierung ändern
Am schnellsten geht es, die Kodierung auf applemac zu setzen: \usepackage{inputenc}

Danach sollten Umlaute ganz normal angegeben werden können.

Ersetzen

Persönlich bevorzuge ich die seit jeher von LaTeX vorgesehene Variante Umlaute anzugeben: Dabei wird einfach \"a für ä, ...

TeX Live Utility

10 May, 2010 (23:16) | Applications, LaTeX, Mac OS X, [Deutschsprachige Einträge] | By: Wolfgang

Das TeX Live Utility ist eine dringende Programmemfehlung an alle, die mit MacTeX arbeiten und ihre TeX-Pakete lieber mit Hilfe eines grafischen Frontends anstatt auf der Konsole verwalten.

Tex Live Utility hilft sowohl bei der Installation von neuen Pakten sowie bei der Aktualisierung oder Entfernung bestehender Pakete.

Das nützliche Programm ist im MacTeXtras Archiv (erhältlich ...