I just arrived at this page.
It is both simple to implement and looks great.
I'm looking for more such examples.
You already hit a gold mine with texample.
A couple of obvious tips:
The TikZ manual contains all kinds of gorgeous examples of drawing with LaTeX
The beamer homepage contains some beamer examples to demonstrate its power. The beamer manual is also full of examples.
So: texample, TikZ manual, beamer manual. There is no other good resource that I'm aware of for LaTeX presentations.
Update: there is also the Beamer Theme Matrix, for the choice of a beamer theme.
One thing you can do is not use the default colour theme. EVERYBODY uses the blue/white theme. It's boring. So think carefully about using a different theme. That will immediately make your presentation stand out. (unless everyone else is using powerpoint, in which case you already have the upper hand)
For example: \usecolortheme{beaver} will immediately make your presentation look different from other beamer presentations. You might want to add \setbeamercolor{itemize item}{fg=darkred!60!black} or something similar to your preamble so that bullet points are red rather than blue. (I cannot understand how colour themes fail to redefine that by default...) [this trick comes from here
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I'm wondering why in my toc shown below, I have different dots style in the most detailed subsections ?
All I've used is:
\setcounter{secnumdepth}{5}
\setcounter{tocdepth}{5}
....
\tableofcontents
How can I create a consistent style at all levels of depth: section, subsection, etc?
It really depends on the document class you are using; book, article etc have a preset layout for the TOC.
Since you said you are writing your Thesis, is it possible that you are using a style given by the college/university?
There is still a way to change it. You can use the package tocloft,
\usepackage{tocloft}
which has a method called \#dotsep to change the amount of space between the dots. Although I do not know if it will work in this case as you only define it once for the whole TOC and if it is relative to what you have it may just increase your dots relative to the way it is already placed.
But here is the code anyways,
\makeatletter \renewcommand{\#dotsep}{4.5} \makeatother
\tableofcontents
It must be placed before your toc command and 4.5 represents the distance.
But like I said this depends on your document class and its style class. Here is the link to the package documentation tocloft.pdf. There are more customizations available which may work for you better.
At least in the article class, they already have a standard style, but to also get dot leaders for sections like the ones in subsections, just use this:
\usepackage{tocloft}
\renewcommand{\cftsecleader}{\cftdotfill{\cftdotsep}}
I need to make a journal, and I want to have a "recommended books" on the side of the page within the last page of the journal, but I couldn't find anything that would give me this result. I'm already using multicols package for the content and i cant see how a graphicx package would help me out.
I want to have a nice blue background with rounded corners too, help is welcome ^^.
If you are already using multicol, just make it another column and draw a box around it with the usual techniques. Maybe not the fanciest solution, but it seems like it should work. Use \newcolumn in the multicol environment to put the sidebar in its own column. For your fancy boxes, try the fancybox package. With it, you can draw boxes with rounded corners.
On the other hand, this guy gets super fancy and uses the TikZ package to get colors and all sorts of stuff.
In Latex, I've created a new command 'changedtext' to mark specifics parts in my document and make it appear blue:
\newcommand{\changedtext}[1]{\textcolor{blue}{#1} }
Is there any easy way to alter the command to have change bars appear next to the text in the resulting PDF?
If not possible, any other suggestion for a visual markup (other than change bars) that would be clear on a black & white printout would be useful as well.
Update: It might be of interest to readers of this question that some time ago I started using the latexdiff script to mark up changes between two versions. I use it in combination with SVN, which I think works great; if you split up your LaTeX files, you might want to look at this tex.stackexchange question though.
Use one of the changebar macro packages in your command.
One other way which would be very clear in B&W would be highlight (shows as gray background).
Use packages soul and color and define your highlight color:
\usepackage{soul}
\usepackage{color}
\definecolor{lightgray}{rgb}{.92,.92,.92}
\sethlcolor{lightgray}
Now you can use \hl{highlighted text} in text to highlight.
Some half-baked solution (not satisfactory) I just came up with myself, is the use of \marginpar to have some arbitrary indication in the margin, e.g.:
\newcommand{\changedtext}[1]{\textcolor{blue}{#1 \marginpar{r1}} }
will put the text 'r1' (from revision 1) in the margin.
However, when using this, the \changedtext command can not be used everywhere (e.g. in formulas, captions) because LateX will complain (in my case) about 'float(s) lost'.
Still,it might be useful to some people...
I'm looking for a way of linking box-like environments (e.g. minipages) in LaTeX, so that text that does not fit into the first box spills into subsequent boxes. E.g:
/begin{box-like-environment}
Text, too much to fit in this box...
/end{box-like-environment}
% some LaTeX here, possibly covering several pages...
/begin{box-like-environment}
% Text which doesn't fit in the first box should appear in this box
/end{box-like-environment}
The effect is something like the 'linked text boxes' of MS Publisher. Any ideas as to if and how this could be achieved?
The idea being, I guess, that the program figures out where to split the text between the two boxes, say so that you can have the text filled between two floats that face each other on opposite pages.
I have no idea how this might be done in Latex; Latex lacks sensitivity to page layout, so I'd guess it can't be done. Context is more sophisticated with regards to layout: it uses METAPOST to handle page layout, not primitive Tex, and there was discussion of something similar on the NTG mailing list: cf. Hans Hagen's post.
Maybe this is an option? There is some software for automatic translation of Latex to Context.
I have been alerted to the flowfram package, which does this.
I encountered a use case where the business would like to display an answer to a question in a handwritten font. So, my initial thought was to use sIFR, but the other part of the use case is they want the handwritten font on blue lines, analogous to writing in a paper notepad or notebook. Can sIFR do a stylized font + notebook lines, or do I need to use another technique? Thank you in advance.
Yes. You can follow the tutorial here to get your blue lines in place: Use custom type with sIFR
However, I would caution against the use of sIFR for whole paragraphs of text. Mike Davidson mentions this in his best practices here.
Raithlin,
Thanks for the link to the article. I read Mike Davidson's page, and I am aware of the problems with replacing too much text. It is something I will warn the business users about.