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TeX Sandbox

A collection of various TeX snippets (mostly LaTeX so far), proofs of concept, tutorials, and so on and so forth.

Topics

  • A3Pages: Inserting landscape A3 pages in documents which are otherwise portrait A4.
  • beamer:
    • intro: introductory presentation to LaTeX
    • specifics: presentation on some specific examples one is likely to encounter while writing reports during one's academic career.
  • booklet: (ab)using LaTeX to make booklets and signatures for books.
  • bytefield: an example for a customized usage of the bytefield package.
  • cli-args: Passing command-line arguments to LaTeX. Very experimental.
  • example-documents:
    • simple-document: A very simple LaTeX document.
    • Links to various LaTeX documents I've created over the ages.
  • floats: Floats in LaTeX. Here be dragons.
  • fonts: Fonts in LaTeX.
  • guides: Some screenshot-laden guides for installing MacTeX, TeX Live and MikTeX, respectively. Target audience: newcomers. Linux and BSD users are presumed to be using their respective system package managers.
    • mactex: MacTeX installation and administration guide
    • miktex: MikTeX installation guide
    • texlive: TeX Live installation and administration guide for Windows.
  • include-images: Some information about including image files in your LaTeX document.
  • include-pdfs: Same, but for PDF documents.
  • listings: Various means of integrating and formatting code and verbatim text in a LaTeX document.
  • minipages: A descent into the abyss which is the dark sorcery of minipages.
  • pgfplots: How to import and plot tabular data from external files.
  • tables: Lapo Mori has written a pretty decent and reasonably compact introduction to the topic of tables, particularly which packages are available and suitable for different use cases. It is a few years old, but still gives a good introduction to the topic in my humble opinion.
  • tikz:
    • faded-hexagons: some messing around with TikZ
    • block-diagrams: block diagrams with TikZ
    • spy: an example for using the spy functionality in TikZ
    • full-page-picture: a way to get pictures to cover an entire page using TikZ

License

Unless otherwise noted, the contents of this repository are MIT-licensed. Content not created by me falls under the license of its respective creator.

Priority List

High:

  • bibliography
  • circuits
  • plotting: matlab2tikz

Medium:

Low: