This week I spent some time figuring out how to use multiple threads in Java. Well, really, I just learned the basics. But it was enough to get a functional example working, and it took me less time than I anticipated. I won’t go into a lot of detail on how to do this because [...] Read more »
In LaTeX, it is very easy to create footnotes. The simplest way is to use this syntax:
\footnote{put text here}
In some cases, you might want to suppress the number on a footnote. I looked around the web, and a few suggestions were out there, but the simplest one I could find was the following:
\let\thefootnote\relax\footnotetext{put text here}
Depending [...] Read more »
One of the strengths of LaTeX is that it handles special symbols quite well and is well suited for mathematical annotation in general. However, sometimes you need to add special symbols to the main body of your document and it doesn’t make sense to do it in math mode. Two examples of this are when [...] Read more »