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Tag Archives: LaTeX
LaTeX Tip For Using Colon In Math Mode
The other day, I stumbled across a LaTeX tip over at John Cook’s TeX and Typography feed. For some reason, WordPress won’t let me embed it, so here it is. The Tweet is about why you should use \colon instead … Continue reading
Typesetting Tables with Booktabs
Nick Higham, whom I’ve written about several times before [1, 2, 3, 4] is a mathematician at the University of Manchester. As an academic and book author he does a lot of publishing and, of course, one of his go … Continue reading
Taking Notes in LaTeX
This is astounding. Gilles Castel uses LaTeX to take notes in his Math classes. These aren’t simple notes with a smattering of elementary math symbols; they’re notes for classes like Complex Variables and other advanced topics. Take a look at … Continue reading
MathJax Tips
Over at John Cook’s TeX Tips there’s a pointer to a very nice MathJax basic tutorial and quick reference. It’s especially handy for those who don’t use \(\mathrm{\LaTeX}\) all the time but occasionally want to include a bit of mathematics … Continue reading
Four LaTeX Mistakes
From the excellent TeX Tips twitter feed I got a pointer to a useful article from John Cook. The article is about the top 4 LaTeX mistakes that Cook, a practicing mathematician, sees in books and articles. You might think … Continue reading
Emacs Configurations for LaTeX
There’s been a lot of tweets and posts on Reddit lately asking about Emacs configurations to support writing \(\TeX\) and \(\LaTeX\). Here’s an example from anasrchid. He asks the typical question: how should I configure Emacs and what packages should … Continue reading
Research Paper Workflow
In a comment on my post Why I Use Emacs, which was mostly a hat tip to Don Knuth’s observation about enjoying your tools, Nick Higham points us to his post on the same quote. Higham is a mathematician whose … Continue reading
Why LaTeX is Better Than Word
Many of you are aware, doubtlessly to your sorrow, of my many rants about Word and its evil brethren. If you care—and you should—what your finished writing looks like, you shouldn’t be using Word. Journals and publishers who generate printing … Continue reading
LaTeX Tips for Beginners
After years of resistance, I’ve come to like LaTeX and now prefer it—particularly through Org mode—over than troff. The thing is, I mostly don’t write in LaTeX; I write in Org mode and just export the Org mode to LaTeX. … Continue reading
Crossword
For all you puzzle constructors out there: How to create a crossword puzzle in LaTeX http://t.co/0BdZcYhRyA — TeX tips (@TeXtip) July 7, 2015 The cwpuzzle makes it really easy to typeset a crossword puzzle. If you want to try your … Continue reading