Latex: Table content and border colors

Sometimes, it is required to have the content of a table in a different colour. If only specific elements of a table should be in different colour, \color{colour}{text} can be used easily. If we need to change the colour of the contents to a single colour different from the main colour of the document, we […]

Changing blank space before and after figure captions in IEEE format

The IEEE format creates generous (and more than enough) blank space before and after the figure captions, which cannot be seen in the IEEE published papers. When I had a look in to the IEEEtran.cls class, I found the settings similar to this: So, the above and below caption skips are set as it is […]

Resolving issue of tables in the IEEE Latex class

subfig package is a unique package in to create subplots with specialised caption and label. Using the package in the IEEE class, however, causes an issue in the tables captions. Per IEEE format, captions should be in small caps (except a, an, to, or, and, …). The table number should come before the text of […]

Using “minted” package in Latex to format programming codes on Windows machines

I was looking for a package to format programming code inside document for a specific programming language. There are two popular options, which are minted and listings. Between the two options, I found minted more flexible and easy to use, of course only when installed. It allows you to easily specify the programming language of […]

Changing Font Size for Specific Part of an Equation in Latex

If you need to change the font size of a specific part of an equation, e.g., a subscript of a variable or parameter, scalerel is the only package you need. It is very simple to use it: the command looks like \scaleto{text}{size} where text is the text which is supposed to be resized, and size […]

Creating a Highlight Box Using tcolorbox in Latex

Sometimes, you need to summarise or highlight the most important points of a document. Preferably, it should be a centred box with a width less than the width of the page with a title. I could manage to build with tcolorbox beautifully. This is an amazing package with a great user’s manual. It is so […]

Full Inline Citation in Latex

When you write a CV or resume in , you need to list your papers in a special order in special place, at least not at the end of your document. To do so, you should have your publications in a .bib file according to bibTex format. Then, you need to use bibentry package and […]

Trimming/Clipping EPS figures in Latex

In some journal and conference format, only eps figures are accepted. The problem with eps format is that you cannot open it with typical software in Windows to trim/crop, for instance. You should use professional software packages such as Adobe Illustrator to modify the eps file. This is not something that every one of us […]

Multi-row and Multi-column table with background color in Latex

Recently, I wanted to create a table like this in where the header has partially two rows and two columns are grouped to form a larger column with a background colour: Well, I thought it should be fairly easy but I was wrong especially when you have multi-row and multi-column with a specific background colour. […]