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Today I found a second way to achieve a strikethrough in LaTeX (what is done by »line-through« in css: strike...   READ MORE

In short: To avoid the standard pixel bitmap fonts and go for smooth, scalable post script ones, use one of the following:

\usepackage{palatino}
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In css there is the handy absolute positioning. Today I found out how to do it in LaTeX:

In the preamble

\usepackage{textpos}

In the document

The arguments...   READ MORE

I left biting marks in the table on this one. I don’t know if it’s a general issue or just my document. Anyway:

I wanted to have footnotes...   READ MORE

By default LaTeX starts the footnote counter at zero for each chapter when you use the class {book} or {scrbook}. If you want to avoid that and have...   READ MORE

There are various possibilities to include Greek text in your LaTeX document. The three ones I found are these:

1. $\Gamma\rho\varepsilon\varepsilon\kappa$ gets you Γρεεκ allright, but it looks clumsy and lacks all the accents etc.
2. betababel. It does not work with my customised control sequences, and I am too lazy to change them and learn them all anew.
3. polutonikogreek. Neat, slim, worked straight away.

Nos. 2 & 3 use ngerman, so make sure they don’t start a fight with german.

update

I had a slight problem with polutonikogreek and titletoc. Whenever I used something like

which referred to this entry in the preamble:

the .toc-file looked like this at the corresponding place:

Wherever \select@language appeared in the toc, the styling of my toc entries of the subsection level was being messed up. I style subsection entries in the toc in a way that they all get written in a single line. It looks like this:

\titlecontents*{subsection}[3.5em]
   {\vspace{-0.5mm}\itshape\footnotesize}{}%
   {}{\dots\normalfont\footnotesize%

How it does work:

Here is what we do: We define the counter

then we add

after it, and it works. Thanks to Axel for his help on this.

How it does not work:

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While working on a somewhat larger scale document I always end up with numerous prints, .dvis,...   READ MORE