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center vs. centering

A frequently seen mistake is to use \begin{center} … \end{center} inside a figure or table environment. This center environment can cause additional vertical space. If you want to avoid that just use \centering instead like in this example: \begin{figure}[ht] \centering … Continue reading

13. June 2008 by stefan
Categories: Figures and Tables | 9 comments

Prevent page breaks

A page break directly after a first item of a itemize oder enumerate environment or other lists may be annoying. How to prevent that? A common way to prevent a page break is to use a minipage (or samepage) environment, … Continue reading

11. June 2008 by stefan
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EPS file with incorrect BoundingBox

If an included eps image does not show up at the right position the coordinates of the BoundingBox may be incorrect. You could get an impression of if you open the image with an external viewer like gsview (Evince). epstool … Continue reading

10. June 2008 by stefan
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Sumatra PDF 0.8.1 released

Sumatra PDF is a slim, free, open-source pdw viewer for Windows. Important new features are automatic reloading of changed PDFs tex integration (support for pdfsync) For more information see Sumatra PDF homepage and Version History. Kjell Magne Fauske provided links … Continue reading

06. June 2008 by stefan
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Used fonts in pdf files

Sometimes it may be useful to examine the fonts actually used by a pdf file, even when it’s self-produced, for instance when the font quality is too low. That can be caused for instance when using Computer Modern fonts if … Continue reading

04. June 2008 by stefan
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LEd 0.52 released

Version 0.52 of the LaTeX Editor LEd released on May 29 2008 now supports MiKTeX 2.6 and 2.7. LEd is a freeware LaTeX IDE designed to work on Windows operating systems. To get more informations about features and license and … Continue reading

30. May 2008 by stefan
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Kile under Windows

Recently I got to know that the very recommendable integrated LaTeX environment Kile can be used on Windows too by installing andLinux, an Ubuntu Linux Version running natively inside Windows, still in the beta state. Chris has written a HowTo … Continue reading

30. May 2008 by stefan
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Increase font size

Sometimes the question is raised how to get bigger font sizes than the standard LaTeX command \Huge provides (see: font sizes). It can easily done by using the \fontsize command followed by \selectfont. If unusual sizes are used the fix-cm … Continue reading

24. May 2008 by stefan
Categories: Uncategorized | 5 comments

Full justification with typewriter font

In a typewriter font aka monospaced font each character is given the same width. Monospaced fonts are frequently used by programmers to increase the readability of source code, but long text passages with monospace typeface are considerably less readable than … Continue reading

14. May 2008 by stefan
Categories: Fonts and Symbols, plain TeX | 11 comments

pgf version 2.00 debian package released

On my Ubuntu 8.04 (“Hardy Heron”) the pgf/TikZ graphics package version 1.18 was installed. The pgf version 2.0 offers new features and is needed by newer documents and packages. A debian package of that version is now available. For information … Continue reading

07. May 2008 by stefan
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Matrices with alignment

The entries of matrix columns are centered by default. Let’s see an example: \[ \begin{pmatrix} 1 & 2 & 1 \\ 0 & -2 & -3 \\ 0 & 3 & -2 \end{pmatrix} \] Output: For right alignment you could … Continue reading

05. May 2008 by stefan
Categories: Uncategorized | 3 comments

Changing margins for just one paragraph

If you want to indent a paragraph just by a certain length but the standard LaTeX environments don’t meet the requirements you could use the TeX primitive \leftskip. To limit its effect it can be enclosed in \begingroup … \endgroup. … Continue reading

02. May 2008 by stefan
Categories: Uncategorized | 3 comments

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