Thursday, April 12, 2012

How to place figures / images inside a table

Figures and images can be placed within tables, but even into other environments, or without environment. A good description is available here:

http://texblog.org/2008/02/04/placing-graphicsimages-inside-a-table/

Thank you J. !

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

How to use subtitle in an article

Make use of the \subtitle command, to do this use scrartcl document class,
and if you want the same fonts as at the article class,
also set them accordingly with \setkomafont
 
\documentclass{scrartcl}
\setkomafont{disposition}{\normalfont\bfseries}

\begin{document}

\title{(Title)}
\subtitle{(Subtitle)}
\author{(Author)}
\maketitle
\end{document}

Friday, March 30, 2012

How to embed fonts in your document

Sometimes you need font types embedded into your document, here is a good solution:

http://mohamednabeel.blogspot.pt/2009/10/fixing-font-not-embedded-issue-to-pass.html

Since I personally use kile to edit LaTeX documents, I process normally to create the .dvi, and then I use the commands

> dvips -Ppdf -G0 -tA4 file.dvi

> ps2pdf -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress file.ps file.pdf

Monday, March 26, 2012

How to link webpages from latex

Use the hyperref package as:
 
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\begin{document}

Here's a link to \href{http://webpage.com}{text}.

\end{document}
 
See at http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2008/11/24/link-to-web-pages-from-latex-pdf/
 or
 http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Hyperlinks

How to create matrices

Generally the easiest way is:
$
  L = \left[
    \begin{array}{cc}
       x & y \\
       z & w
    \end{array} \right]
$
A good reference about the topic can be found here:

http://www.rizauddin.com/2009/05/how-to-create-a-matrix-in-latex/

An even easier way to do this is to use pmatrix as
$
  \begin{pmatrix}
     x & y \\
     z &  w
  \end{pmatrix}
$
 However this latter will always put the matrix inside round  parenthesis.

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

write 1st, 2nd, ... nth correctly

Using the nth package as

\usepackage[super]{nth}

 ...

 \nth{<number>}

super is only needed if you want the "th" in superscript, this is the English preferred format, so I usually use as this

or alternatively

 k$^{\textnormal{th}}