You may have encountered the problem where you wanted to merge multiple cells in a table column. Especially in the table headers (the leftmost column), this is not unthinkable. In this post, a simple way to realize this is described. We will be using the multirow package to do this.

After writing a five minute guide to LaTeX, I’d like to summarize some of the best resources for LaTeX beginners. When performing a Google search, you’ll find way too much information. Knowing what resources to use is key for a successful start with LaTeX and this post will help you with that.

Elaborating plotted data and drawing conclusions from them in a (scientific) report can be cumbersome and often takes way too many words than necessary. Following the old saying ‘a picture is worth a thousand words‘, this post describes how to highlight certain areas in a TikZ plot. You’ll be able to adjust the color of the highlighted area, its layer

This blog is getting more and more popular and therefore more and more comments are being posted. In order to help everyone as quick as possible, with answers that are easy to understand, I’ll use writeLaTeX.com to answer questions. Since this way of answering question is a probably new to you, this post will help you with the basics. Quite

Recently I received an email with the question for a bilingual document. I never had to write a bilingual document before, and the challenge was there. What I create is a two column document in which two languages can be used: one in the left column and one in the right column. I tried to keep things as simple and

I often wonder why the bibliography of LaTeX documents is not shown in the Table of Contents by defaults. Happily enough, I wasn’t the only one wondering this. That is why the tocbibind package was created. This package allows one to add the bibliography to the ToC. But wait, there more!

I created a clean looking title page that can be used for a book (with multiple authors). I won’t be writing a lot on this template, as I’ve added comments to the TeX code of the template. If something is unclear, feel free to ask!

You probably know the largest LaTeX community on the web: LaTeX-community.org by Sven Wiegand and Stefan Kottwitz. There is a large forum there, where a lot of questions are answered every day (also by me). Recently they started a contest, which can be found here. In short, it was asked to write a post about graphics in LaTeX. The result?