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

Besides the overall beauty of LaTeX, I was never really satisfied with the table environment. The vertical rules are quite useless in most cases and not exactly eye candy. There is a must have package called booktabs, which helps you improve the quality of your LaTeX tables. It gets rid of the vertical rules, as well as the double rules.