If you use Kile as LaTeX editor and if you find yourself typing the same code all over again – like a specific table environment, or a slide environment in beamer or whatever, why not create your own user tag and assign a custom shortcut? You can even decide where the cursor should be placed and what should happen in case text is selected while pressing your shortcut.
It’s very easy and very fantastic: User defined Tags.
Working with multibib, Bibtex started failing me after a recent reinstallation of texlive on xubuntu. On
bibtex <project-path>/src.aux
I got:
To get rid of the error, open texmf.cnf, which resides in /usr/share/texlive/texmf/web2c through
sudo gedit /usr/share/texlive/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
Then find the entry
I have not needed it so far, but I’m sure the day will come where someone insits, so this howto might come in handy: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1033441
Today I found a second way to achieve a strikethrough in LaTeX (what is done by »line-through« in css: strike out text). If you want to put a line across text, your choices are »ulem« and »cancel«:
\usepackage{ulem} in the preamble gives you two ways to strike out text (and a couple more for underlining):
In short: To avoid the standard pixel bitmap fonts and go for smooth, scalable post script ones, use one of the following:
\usepackage{palatino}
\usepackage{times}
\usepackage{bookman}
\usepackage{newcent}
In css there is the handy absolute positioning. Today I found out how to do it in LaTeX:
In the preamble
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 from inside sections, subsections, and subsubsections. They work similar to footnotes in tables, you need to address them similar to this:
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 a continuous enumeration, here is how it works:
Create a folder <remreset> in your local package repository. Save the file remreset.sty into this folder.
There are various possibilities to include Greek text in your LaTeX document. The three ones I found are these:
$\Gamma\rho\varepsilon\varepsilon\kappa$ gets you Γρεεκ allright, but it looks clumsy and lacks all the accents etc.Nos. 2 & 3 use ngerman, so make sure they don’t start a fight with german.
Here is what we do: We define the counter
\newcounter{MyCounter}then we add
While working on a somewhat larger scale document I always end up with numerous prints, .dvis, .pdfs and so on and so forth. Once, I lost all my original .tex documents and thus had to copy everything from a pdf and reformat it. In a case like that, it sure is handy to know exactly with which version you are dealing and which one is the latest. So for my thesis I wanted to add a little automatic timestamp to each print. Sure enough I found timestamp.sty. Just go to your local package repository, create a folder called <timestamp> and save timestamp.sty into it. With
\usepackage{timestamp}in the preambel and