Something that you may or may not know, is that you can write loops in LaTeX. It is, in fact, a Turing-complete language, so you can write if statements too (which is helpful for making multi-line comments), and do all the other things you can do with a programming language.<\/p>\n
So, I guess you are thinking, ‘eh, that’s cool, but why would I do it?’ Indeed, I have known about this for ages, but never found any need for it, until recently. My problem was that I had generated 80 small images, that I wanted to display on a number of pages. I could have played with print settings, and made multiple pages per sheet, but since I wanted two columns, and to fit 16 to a page (the 80 images were in 5 sets of 16, each with two subsets), that was going to be a pain. I also wanted to add some labels to each set, but not have said label on every image. However, I thought that LaTeX could solve my problem.<\/p>\n
As ever, there are a number of different latex packages that you can use, but I used the pgffor package. In the example below, my pictures were named [A-E]_[ab][1-8]_picture, e.g. A_b2_picture.png, or D_a3_picture.png. The code produces pages of 16 pictures, with the ‘a’ pictures on the left, and the ‘b’ pictures on the right.
\nThere is a more simple example at the bottom.<\/p>\n
\\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article}\r\n\\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}\r\n\\usepackage{pgffor}\r\n\\usepackage{subfigure}\r\n\\usepackage{graphicx}\r\n\\usepackage{caption}\r\n\\usepackage{subcaption}\r\n\\usepackage{fullpage}\r\n\r\n\\begin{document}\r\n\\section{}\r\n\r\n\\foreach \\method in {A, B, C, D, E}{ %looping over each set of 16 \r\n \\begin{figure}\r\n \\foreach \\i in {1,...,8}{ %looping over each subset, the a set first, then the b set\r\n \\centering \r\n \\subfigure[]{\\label{fig:\\method \\i a}\\includegraphics[width=0.45\\textwidth]{\\method _a\\i _picture}} \r\n \\subfigure[]{\\label{fig:\\method \\i b}\\includegraphics[width=0.45\\textwidth]{\\method _b\\i _picture}}\r\n }\r\n \\caption{\\method}\r\n \\end{figure}\r\n}\r\n\r\n%a more simple example\r\n\\foreach \\number in {1,...,10}{\r\n\\number \\ elephant\r\n} \r\n\r\n\\end{document}<\/pre>\nHappy LaTeXing..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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