LaTeX

Working with multibib, Bibtex started failing me after a recent reinstallation of texlive on xubuntu. On bibtex <project-path>/src.aux I got:

 bibtex: Not writing to <project-path>/src.blg (openout_any = p).

I couldn't open file name `<project-path>/src.blg' 

To ...READ MORE

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 ...READ MORE

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 ...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} \usepackage{times} \usepackage{bookman} \usepackage{newcent}

or, for standard post script fonts

\usepackage{pslatex} or \usepackage{ae,aecompl} ...READ MORE

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 from inside sections, subsections, and subsubsections. They ...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 a continuous enumeration, here is how it ...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

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.

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 ...READ MORE