A previous post on this blog explained how to make sure footnotes are placed underneath floats (which is not a standard in LaTeX). This post is written for another trick with footnotes: resetting the footnote counter for every new page. The way this will be done is by making use of the pfnote package, although numerous alternatives exist.

Here’s another LaTeX trick that might come in handy. With the showkeys package, the labels you’ve defined are printed in the margins of the document. This way you have a perfect overview of which label is defined where and how they are called. The package affects the following commands: label, ref, pageref, cite and bibitem.

When working on a LaTeX project of some value, you might want to add your credentials to the PDF metadata. This way, readers of the document will know who made the document and what its about without actually opening the document. Adding metadata might also be a good idea for copyright reasons, etc. As always, there are multiple ways of

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{}