Author Jan Sauermann

LaTeX has ability to integrate many standard and user-defined counters that count from a, b, …, roman and arabic numbers and many more. Even counting backwards are relatively straightforward if you set a static number from which LaTeX can count… Continue Reading →

Manuscripts typically contain many different types of numbering: page numbering, sections, subsections, figures, tables etc. Types of counters Each counter has a different name that is used to modify them. This is typically slightly different from the one that is… Continue Reading →

Over and over again we were searching for BibTeX styles files (.bst) that follow the required styles of specific journals. So we decided to create a list ourselves. If you have any additions or corrections, please lets us know! You… Continue Reading →

Including the current date in your LaTeX document is quite straightforward. Simply put \today whereever you want the current timestamp (i.e. the date at the time of compiling the document), and you get the current date: \documentclass[english,a4paper,oneside,12pt]{article} \begin{document} Today’s date… Continue Reading →

You might have seen that PDF documents have (as many other files as well) their own document properties, such as the document’s author, title, etc. Using LaTeX’s hyperref package, you can very easily define these in the preamble of your… Continue Reading →

Whether it is lecture slides or presentations, you often wants to distribute pdf-versions of your beamertex file. If you are using overlay to blockwise show text or blockwise highlighting parts of tables (see here and here for ways to color… Continue Reading →

For some time I looked for a way to simplify the process of linking LaTeX files of my manuscripts with the replies to editors and referees. In particular, I was looking for a way to automatically update cross-references (i.e. to… Continue Reading →

Manually importing references into your BiBTeX database can be tedious (and prone to make errors…). While you can download the BiBTeX code from the journal websites or other sites such as IDEAS, there are three four other useful ways to… Continue Reading →

When submitting papers, journals often require double-spaced footnotes. While there seem to be different approaches to it, this one worked quite well. It requires the footnotemisc package. You simply need to enter the following code in the preamble of your… Continue Reading →

Especially when making changes in collaborations, it is quite useful to have strikethrough text, so that collaborators can see the deleted text (which can thereafter be deleted). While there are ways to use track changes for LaTeX (see our earlier… Continue Reading →

In my ongoing search to further improve table layout for my beamer-presentations, I just came across a simple way to change the font color in tables. This comes in handy, for example, to highlight results regression results in specific tables…. Continue Reading →