Custom Shortcuts in Kile
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
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
Working with multibib, Bibtex started failing me after a recent reinstallation of texlive on xubuntu. On
bibtex <project-path>/src.aux
I got:
To
Today I found a second way to achieve a strikethrough in LaTeX (what is done by »line-through« in css: strike
In short: To avoid the standard pixel bitmap fonts and go for smooth, scalable post script ones, use one of the following:
\usepackage{palatino}
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
\begin{textblock}{2}[0,0](8,1.5) Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet \end{textblock}The arguments
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
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
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.
I had a slight problem with polutonikogreek and titletoc. Whenever I used something like
\greek{p’olemos}which referred to this entry in the preamble:
\newcommand*{\greek}[1]% {\selectlanguage{polutonikogreek}{#1}% \selectlanguage{german}}the .toc-file looked like this at the corresponding place:
[…] \contentsline {section}{\numberline {1.1}KAPITEL-1.1}{14} \contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {1.1.1}UNTERKAPITEL-1.1.1}{14} \select@language {polutonikogreek} \select@language {german} \select@language {polutonikogreek} \select@language {german} \contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {1.1.2}UNTERKAPITEL-1.1.2}{20} […]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%
While working on a somewhat larger scale document I always end up with numerous prints, .dvis,