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Citations with LaTeX Managing citations is a core task when writing scientific documents. Of course, there are lots of options to do this with LaTeX. This makes it super confusing. If you need help, try tex.stackexchange.com. The guys there are super helpful and extremely knowledgable. If you don't even know how … Read More »

Abschlussbericht der Studienstiftung Stipendiaten der Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes müssen am Ende ihres Studiums einen Abschlussbericht schreiben. Damit sich andere Stipendiaten nicht auch jedes mal die Vorlage erstellen müssen, stelle ich meine LaTeX-Vorlage hier bereit. Wenn ihr Verbesserungsvorschläge habt, könnt ihr mir gerne eine E-Mail schreiben ([email protected]) oder einen Kommentar hinterlassen … Read More »

How to typeset chess games with LaTeX Chessboard Simple example Chessboard - simple example \documentclass{article} \usepackage[pdftex,active,tightpage]{preview} \setlength\PreviewBorder{5mm} \usepackage{chessboard} \begin{document} \begin{preview} \chessboard[setfen=5rk1/pp3N1p/4P3/2P5/3Q1PK1/P7/1Pr3pq/R3R3 w - - 0 0, showmover] \end{preview} \end{document} From tex.stackexchange.com. Skak Simple example Simple example with … Read More »

Colors in LaTeX LaTeX knows the following colors without any packages: black blue brown cyan darkgray gray green lime magenta olive orange pink purple red teal violet white yellow If you want other colors, you can define them with \usepackage{xcolor} and \definecolor{name}{model}{color-spec} where: name is the name of the … Read More »

LaTeX and tables LaTeX is an awesome typesetting language: It is powerful enough to let you do anything you want, it has a great community and standard solutions for every common problem as it is quite old. But tables... well, let's say there is much room for improvement. How to make tables The … Read More »

Reference Management with JabRef Keeping track of papers, articles and books or more general sources you can cite is a task you will have to tackle when you're writing your thesis. One way to store information is via BibTeX files. BibTeX is a reference management software that is used together with LaTeX. If you're … Read More »

Improving lecture notes: Job (almost) done! Some of you might know that I've bin improving the lecture notes for the computer engineering lecture (digital electronics) since April 2013. How I've got the job This was kind of funny. I send Prof. Dr. Asfour some notes of passages that could be improved (mainly typos). About two days … Read More »

LaTeX Beamer I really enjoy creating presentations with LaTeX. The reasons are: You can use versioning (GIT, SVN, ...) You can use your favorite editor! When you've created an animation with TikZ, you can easily go one step back an go through it as fast as it is apropriate! Good separation … Read More »

How to create a digital signature At first, you have to write your signature on a white sheet of paper. You might have to make several tries: Some tries for a nice signature Then you should scan it in a high quality. Now crop the image to the size you like. I have used GIMP for … Read More »

Creating Gantt Charts I am currently involved in a software project and I should create a Gantt chart. So I've searched for tools that allow me to do so, but it was astonishingly difficult to find good tools. I'm not completely content with any of them, but I would like to share my … Read More »