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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
How to declare the appendix
Some LaTeX tutorials and at least one wellknown online reference manual explain the declaration of an appendix by an environment, they recommend to write: \begin{appendix} … \end{appendix}. Though this will be compiled without error it actually is not functioning like … Continue reading
