Posted in LaTeX on December 22nd, 2010 No Comments »
if your section headings are printing 0.1, 0.2, etc., and you’d like to remove the leading 0′s, add the following to your latex file: \renewcommand*\thesection{\arabic{section}}
Posted in LaTeX on June 1st, 2010 1 Comment »
Despite having multiple sections and chapters in my document, my figures were only numbered: Figure 1, Figure, 2, etc. To change their naming to Figure 1.1, Figure 1.2, etc, I simply included the following code: \usepackage{amsmath} \numberwithin{figure}{section}
Posted in LaTeX on June 1st, 2010 1 Comment »
to have hyperlinks between references in your document and figures or sections, simply load: \usepackage{hyperref} once this package is loaded, you can also embed webpage hyperlinks: \url{http//www.google.com}
Posted in LaTeX on April 19th, 2008 1 Comment »
much thanks to ilana bromberg heintz for the following hint!    When you have a list environment, either itemize or enumerate, it automatically double spaces between the items.  That’s annoying.  To get rid of it, just add ‘mdwlist’ to the \usepackage list in your declarations, then use\begin{enumerate*} and \end{enumerate*} (or itemize*).  Single spaced!
Posted in LaTeX on June 18th, 2007 3 Comments »
for my thesis proposal, i’ve tried to reduce the volume of space my bibliography takes up as much as possible. here are some of the strategies i’ve employed: use single-spacing, make the font small, and make the citations print in two-column style: \begin{singlespace} \begin{footnotesize} \begin{twocolumn} \bibliography{main} \bibliographystyle{unsrtnat} \end{twocolumn} \end{footnotesize} \end{singlespace}
Posted in LaTeX on May 25th, 2007 8 Comments »
to adjust the spacing between rows in a latex table, add square brackets and the size adjustment after the linebreak. for instance, to compress rows by 1 inch: entry1 & entry2 & entry3 \\[-1in]
Posted in LaTeX on May 17th, 2007 4 Comments »
i wanted to give my thesis proposal abstract a listing in the table of contents, but i didn’t want to give it an explicit chapter number. to achieve this, i prefaced by abstract with: \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{\protect\numberline{}Abstract} \chapter*{Abstract} my abstract.
Posted in LaTeX on October 3rd, 2006 1 Comment »
latex makes everything beautiful. so, why not use it to make one of your most important documents — your resume — more attractive? it’s easy. (assuming you’ve got some basic knowledge of latex or the moxie to acquire some.) i won’t teach any introductory latex here; that’s what google is for. instead, i’ll provide something […]
Posted in LaTeX, Mac OS X on July 18th, 2006 1 Comment »
to get latex and pdflatex running in mac os x, first download i-installer. then, install the ‘tex’ package found in the i-installer. then, compile a tex file into a pdf with the command: >>pdflatex mytexfile.tex
Posted in LaTeX on May 16th, 2006 48 Comments »
to tile images in a figure, use the following code: \begin{figure}[h] \begin{center}$ \begin{array}{cc} \includegraphics[width=2.5in]{image1.jpg} & \includegraphics[width=2.5in]{image2.jpg} \end{array}$ \end{center} \caption{my caption} \end{figure} to place more than 2 images on a line, add extra ‘c’s to the {array} specification and follow each \includegraphics[]{} with an ampersand (&). to create a matrix of images, insert newlines using two […]