Together with a friend of mine, I’ve written a beginners guide for LaTeX. The main goal of the guide was to keep things simple and to convince MS Word users to write proper documents with LaTeX. The result? Four pages of text, explaining the basics of LaTeX. The content of the guide is filled with examples. This, in our opinion,

Today’s LaTeX template has a two column layout, which makes it suitable for a (scientific) journal article. The section headings are changed, as well as the font of the document. Furthermore a header is added to the pages. I tried to create a clean looking article. Judge yourselves if I succeeded in doing that. The description in this post will

There are plenty of LaTeX packages that enable users to create a nomenclature (also called glossary or list of symbols); some make use of makeindex or xindy, others use bibtex. I think a nomenclature adds a great amount of value to theses or other large documents, but setting up a system to maintain one is a bit of a pain

Originally, I started this blog to help the very beginners of LaTeX. I have to admit that the horizon got a little wider since the day howtoTeX.com was launched and that is (in my eyes) not a bad thing. Challenges will only keep you motivated! However, today a post that is very useful for starters. In this post, I sum

After the third part in this series on how to speed up the LaTeX compilation part I ran out of ideas. Fortunately, Stefan Kottwitz and Frakturfreund reminded me of one more thing: precompiled preambles. The idea is quite simple: Every time you compile a LaTeX document, it first reads all packages that are called in the preamble with the \usepackage{}

Once in a while I write a document with a lot of large figures in it. It then may occur that you want to change the margins of a single page in order to fit a number of figures in one page. This can be done with the geometry package (from version 5 and later) and the \newgeometry command. A

I got some requests of people that wanted to see a LaTeX template for a curriculum vitae (CV) or resume, even after I wrote a guide to building a plain and simple LaTeX CV. Therefore I’ve decided to write another guide. This post will teach you how to get creative with LaTeX and build a designer’s CV (that’s what I

Although (La)TeX is already more than 30 years old, it is still optimized and updated. LaTeX commands, classes and packages may therefore become obsolete or outdated. It’s no fun to keep track of all changes in LaTeX and check what package are still good to use, so the nag package does that for you. For example, the \bf, \it, etc.