One of the few things I really missed when I switched from Windows to Linux was MikTeX, since it makes installation of LaTeX packages very easy, where Linux makes you jump through hoops. So I’m delighted that MikTeX brings this functionality to Linux, trough MikTeX Tools.
Since this is not available through aptitude, you have to […]
I’ve started using Sweave and immediately ran into a problem. I had a wide figure to include (actually, a plot that combined several plots in R using the layout command). I had used the lscape package in LaTeX and the corresponding landscape environment for that page, and before, it worked fine, but with Sweave, the […]
I want to include horizontally (landscape) oriented pages in a LaTeX document; to do that I use \usepackage{lscape}. Then:
Some normal text
\begin{landscape}
Some text that should be oriented horizontally.
A page break automatically gets put in before and after.
\end{landscape}
Revert back to portrait orientation.
This works fine, except when I include a {figure} environment inside the {landscape} environment: In the […]
I told you this blog is my outsourced memory :)
I can put packages in my home directory at ~/texmf/tex/latex/, and into subdirectories of that dir. Then, say:
texhash
This will complain that it can’t update the system-wide texmf info, but no prob if no changes were made to that. So I moved sciposter.cls there instead of having […]
I use Dia to produce diagrams that I then include in LaTeX documents. I export them to .eps (encapsulated postscript) file format. If your diagram contains fonts and they look ugly (ragged) in the resulting LaTeX document, you picked the wrong export format. Make sure you pick “Encapsulated Postscript (using PostScript … fonts) (*eps)”. Or, […]