LaTeX Notepad

Interesting Packages

Language Related

American:

\usepackage[american]{babel}

Make Umlauts possible (2. variant with Unicode):

\usepackage[latin2]{inputenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

Include Pictures

\usepackage{graphicx}

Display Soure-Code of Programs

\usepackage{listings}

Tables Over Several Pages

\usepackage{longtable}

Several figures side by side

\usepackage{subfigure}
\begin{figure}
 \begin{center}
   \subfigure[foo]
             {
              ...
             }
   \subfigure[bar]
             {
              ...
             }
   \caption{foo bar}
    \label{fig1}
  \end{center}
\end{figure}

User-Defined Commands

Include a Graphic

\newcommand{\einbild}[3]{
\begin{figure}
  \begin{center}
    \includegraphics[scale=0.75]{#1}
    \caption{#2}
    \label{fig:#3}
  \end{center}
\end{figure}
}

\einbild{pic1.eps}{This is figure 1}{fig1}

"Beautiful" Characters

\usepackage{amsfonts}
\newcommand{\schoen}[1]{\mathbb{#1}}
\newcommand{\mschoen}[1]{$\schoen{#1}$}
\mschoen{S}
$\schoen{S}$

see ...

\newcommand{\see}[1]{{\it(see #1 section~\ref{#1}, page~\pageref{#1})}}
\see{fig1}

Comment Over Multiple Lines

\newcommand{\mycomment}[1]{}

\mycomment{

THIS AREA WILL BE IGNORED

}

Lists

itemize

\begin{itemize}
  \item foo
  \item bar
\end{itemize}

• foo
• bar

enumerate

\begin{enumerate}
 \item foo
 \item bar
\end{enumerate}

1. foo
2. bar

description

\begin{description}
 \item[foo] This is foo
 \item[bar] This is bar
\end{description}

• foo This is foo
• bar This is bar

Content Should Appear on the Same Page

\begin{samepage}
 BLA BLA
 \begin{itemize}
   \item foo
   \item bar
 \end{itemize}
 BLA BLA
\end{samepage}

Tables

 \begin{table}
   \label{table1}
  \begin{tabular}[ht]{|l|l||l|l|}
  \hline
  A & B & C & D\\
  \hline
   1 &  2 &  3 &  4\\
  \hline
   5 &  6 &  \multicolumn{2}{|l|}{7 8}\\
  \hline
  \hline
   9 & 10 & 11 & 12\\
  \hline
  13 & 14 & 15 & 16\\
  \hline
 \end{tabular}
  \caption{A Table}
\end{table}

LaTeX Beamer

Create slides for your presentation with LaTeX Beamer directly from you LaTeX sources.

LaTeX Beamer
Choose a layout:

%\usetheme{default}
%\usetheme{PaloAlto}
%\usetheme{Malmoe}
\usetheme{Warsaw}

Start a new (sub-) section:

\section{Foo}
%\subsection{Bar}

Create a new page:

\frame
{
  \frametitle{Foo}
  ...
}

Create the index:

\frame{\tableofcontents}

Show the following content not before the next slide:

foo \pause bar

Let items appear successively

Manually select on which slide a item will appear:

\begin{itemize}
  \item<1->  AA
  \item<2-3> BB
  \item<3->  CC
  \item<4->  DD
\end{itemize}

1.	2.	3.	4.
AA	AA BB	AA BB CC	AA CC DD

Elements won't be only invisible on some pages but also won't use any space there:

\only<2-3>{FOO}

...
\item<only@1->  FOO
...

The items will appear successively (unless otherwise noted):

\begin{itemize}[<+->]
\item AA
\item BB
\item CC
\item<2-3> DD
\item EE
\end{itemize}

1.	2.	3.	4.
AA	AA BB DD	AA BB CC DD	AA BB CC EE

Highlight the current item:

\begin{itemize}[<+-| alert@+>]
 \item AA
 \item BB
 \item CC
\end{itemize}

1.	2.	3.
AA	AA BB	AA BB CC

\item<3-| alert@3> Foo
%\alert<4>{Foo}

Elements which are not yet uncovered are shown transparent

\setbeamercovered{transparent}

Show a block with the title FOO and the content BAR:

\begin{block}{FOO}
BAR
\end{block}

The block will only a appear on some slides:

\begin{exampleblock}{Example}<2->
%\begin{exampleblock}{Example}<only@2->

Include a graphics:

\includegraphics[width=7cm,height=3cm]{foo.jpg}
%\includegraphics<1>[height=2cm]{foo.pdf}%

Split a slide in two columns (The parameter indicates how to vertically arrange the two columns: b last line, c center, t (T) first line):

\begin{columns}[t]
 \column{5cm}
 Foo
 \column[T]{5cm}
 Bar
\end{columns}

\begin{columns}
 \begin{column}[t]{5cm}
  FOO
 \end{column}
 \begin{column}[t]{5cm}
  BAR
 \end{column}
\end{columns}

View presentation in xpdf in fullscreen mode:

xpdf -fullscreen presentation.pdf

gbrief

\documentclass[german]{g-brief}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin2]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\makeatletter
\lochermarke
\faltmarken
\fenstermarken
\trennlinien
%% \klassisch
\makeatother
\begin{document}
 \Name{}
 \Unterschrift{}
 \Strasse{}
 \Zusatz{}
 \Ort{}
 \Land{}
 \RetourAdresse{}
 \Telefon{}
 \Telefax{}
 \Telex{}
 \EMail{}
 \HTTP{}
 \Bank{}
 \BLZ{}
 \Konto{}
 \Betreff{}
 %\Postvermerk{}
 \MeinZeichen{}
 \IhrZeichen{}
 \IhrSchreiben{}
 \Anlagen{}
 \Verteiler{}
 \Datum{\today}
 \Anrede{}
 
 \begin{g-brief}
  
  ...
  
 \end{g-brief}
\end{document}

Example: gbrief.tex, gbrief.pdf

Miscellaneous

References

BibTeX

\cite{q1,q2}

Links

• LaTeX commands
• DE-TeX-FAQ
• LaTeX cookbook
• LaTeX cheat sheet
• LaTeX Beamer

Latex Makefile with latexmk

latexmk Debian latexmk

myfile:=foo.tex

all:	dvi pdf ps

dvi:
	latexmk -dvi ${myfile}

pdf:
	latexmk -pdf ${myfile}

ps:
	latexmk -ps  ${myfile}

force:
	latexmk -g   ${myfile}

view:
	latexmk -pvc ${myfile}

clean:
	latexml -c


figurelist=\
foo\
bar

figurelist := $(figurelist:%=figures/rendered/%.pdf)

figures: ${figurelist}

figures/rendered/%.pdf: figures/%.fig
	fig2dev -L pdf $<  $@