Tag Archives: LaTeX

LaTeX Templates

Posted on 2015-06-08 by jcs

If you’re a beginning or intermediate LaTeX user, you can probably produce pretty nice looking documents as long as the document is one of the standard types. If you want to produce slightly unusual documents—a homework assignment or résumé, say—you’ll … Continue reading →

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A LaTeX Tip

Posted on 2015-02-23 by jcs

Here’s something from John Cook that I didn’t know: Use \phantom{} to insert white space the size of the argument. For example, \phantom{\pi} is an invisible \pi. — TeX tips (@TeXtip) February 23, 2015

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Using AUCTeX

Posted on 2015-01-08 by jcs

Before I started using Org-mode for most of my writing, I typeset everything using groff. I occasionally used TeX but very little LaTeX. One of my New Year Resolutions is to learn more LaTeX. My recent post on Piotr Kaźmierczak’s … Continue reading →

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Using AUCTeX

Posted on 2014-12-30 by jcs

Piotr Kaźmierczak has a nice post on why Emacs is the ultimate LaTeX editor1. The idea is that adding AUCTeX to the greatest editor in the world gives you an incredibly powerful LaTeX environment. Kaźmierczak is a Mathematician so his … Continue reading →

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