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[R/knitr] Automatic bibliography generation with biblatex in RStudio 20 Aug 2013 | 07:25 pm
Everyone is talking about making research reproducible. With the integration of knitr in RStudio, reproducible research has been made available to people who are less familiar with the Terminal. All y...
Tidy and compact table of contents with multitoc 14 Aug 2013 | 06:51 pm
The multitoc package provides an easy and clean way to save space when producing a table of contents. It allows for two or more columns. Similarly, list of figures and list of tables can be compressed...
How to add extra space to the table of contents, list of figures and tables 16 Jul 2013 | 01:31 pm
The tocloft package implements a number of commands to customize the table of contents, list of figures and list of tables. One of these commands provided by the package adds whitespace before entries...
LaTeX heatmap using tabular 13 Jun 2013 | 12:00 pm
Inspired by a question in the latex-community.org forum and on the basis of a solution to a similar question on tex.SX, I came up with some code to plot a heatmap based on matrix in form of a standard...
Tiny leaves for official LaTeX announcements 7 May 2013 | 09:18 pm
Seth Godin mentioned in his recent blog post on simple typography that certain fonts remind us of something. I’m not a professional. But for to fun it, I tried to reproduce Seth’s first example using ...
Cleveref, a clever way to reference in LaTeX 7 May 2013 | 12:00 am
Using standard cross-referencing in LaTeX only produces the label number, a name describing the label such as figure, chapter or equation has to be added manually. The cleveref package overcomes this ...
LaTeX table of contents, list of figures/tables and some customizations 30 Apr 2013 | 12:00 am
I wrote a somewhat short post on list of figures and list of tables a few years ago. Nevertheless, it gets quite a bit of traffic, possibly due to the large number of comments. For that reason, I deci...
Simple Smiley faces with TiKZ in LaTeX 22 Apr 2013 | 12:00 pm
I recently wrote an article on side-by-side figures in LaTeX (TUGboat 34:1), based on a series of posts on this blog. For illustration of the code samples, I created a series of very basic Smileys fac...
Hidden text with LaTeX colored multi-row tables 9 Apr 2013 | 01:00 pm
When multirow cells in LaTeX tables are colored, the text is partially hidden as illustrated by the example below. This happens because the color of the second row is added after typesetting the text ...
Reverse numbering for chapters, sections, etc. 3 Apr 2013 | 11:30 am
I was recently asked if there is a way to reverse the numbering of chapters in a report from n to 1. I didn’t find an easy way to do it which is why I decided to write a short post. Here is the minima...
