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!

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.

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

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

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 LaTeX commands, classes and packages may therefore become obsolete or outdated.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.

The space occupied by list environments in LaTeX (itemize, enumerate, etc.) is sometimes a bit too much. For example, when you need to save space in your document or simply because you don’t like the looks of the standard list environments. In this post, the paralist package will be used to create compact lists. This will be done by elimination

Last week I wrote a new post on float control and today a new problem occurred while I was typesetting a report: A table was placed underneath the footnotes, which is wrong and ugly! Fortunately, the way to fix this is very easy. That’s why this post will be very short :-) We’re going to use a package called footmisc.

If you’re reading this blog, its unnecessary to convince you of the advantages of (La)TeX over typesetting software like Microsoft Word. However, one of the main flaws I always struggle with is the way the LaTeX engine places floats (figure, tables, etc.). When typesetting large documents that contain a lot of figures and tables, I often find figures being placed