Category: latex

  • Beamer fragile frames

    If you want to include verbatim text, say for some program code, in a frame in beamer, you have to pass the fragile option to the frame, like so: \begin{frame}[fragile] \frametitle{a fragile frame} \begin{verbatim} some verbatim text here \end{verbatim} \end{frame} Though latex usually doesn’t really care about whitespace at the beginning of a line, in…


  • Finally a better LaTeX to html converter

    About a year ago I wrote a post about my frustration with the lack of a good LaTeX to html converter. Recently I found one. It is called plasTeX, so named because it is written in python. Finally a converter which works well with most any LaTeX package or macro you write, and produces sane,…


  • Fun with fonts in LaTeX

    Today I stumbled across the LaTeX font catalogue, which lists all available fonts for LaTeX. I am really surprised that I had not been aware of it earlier. I was also surprised at the number of fonts there. While some new projects such as XeTeX are making all open-type and true-type fonts available to the…


  • numbered footnotes on titlepage

    The new lab I work in at Indiana University has an annual progress report, with its own stylesheet. There is a template available for Microsoft Word, but I much prefer LaTeX, so I am trying to write my own class file for that. One of the quirks of the stylesheet is that footnotes from the…


  • advanced typography with pdfLaTeX

    I have been using LaTeX for several years now, but only a couple months ago did I start experimenting with pdflatex. Actually, most current LaTeX distributions use pdflatex as the default LaTeX engine, but if you use the latex command, then it will produce a .dvi file, which most people then convert to .ps and…


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