Using loops to simplify your LaTeX documents
February 12, 2019
I often fall into the case where I want to create some slides showing the same plots for different scenarios, e.g. for different users. In those cases, you just need a coherent naming conventions for your plots, for instance:
Figures/
1/
plot.png
hist.png
2/
plot.png
hist.png
....
10/
plot.png
hist.png
Then, the magic of pgffor enters into the game. Like in any other language (almost), you can use a for loop in a latex document. Minimal Working Example:
\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{pgffor}
\begin{document}
\foreach \n in {0,...,9}{
\begin{frame}{Driver example \n }
\begin{columns}
\begin{column}{0.5\textwidth}\centering\small
Plot \\
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{Figures/\n /plot.png}
\end{column}
\begin{column}{0.5\textwidth}\centering\small
Hist \\
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{Figures/\n /hist.png}
\end{column}
\end{columns}
\end{frame}
}
\end{document}
If even works for “list of strings”:
\foreach \n in {varibleA,
varB,
VariableC} {
\n
}
No more excuses to have the distribution of variable A on the slide named ` B`!