Useful Latex Tricks Links
Whilst doing various weird and wonderful things in Latex2e I have spent a significant number of hours trying to find out how to do many of these. The below links have been invaluable: I hope you find them as useful!
General Latex
- The Not So Short Introduction to Latex2e
- Tim Love's pages at CUED, particularly simple macros
- Latex Command Summary (Netherlands Tex Group)
- Robin Fairbairn's pages on fonts
- How to install a package
- Comprehensive help on creating a table of contents
- To change the way your captions appear, use the Caption package
- Tables in IEEE proceedings-style papers: if you want your table to span both columns, use a \begin{table*} environment, which surrounds a \begin{tabular} environment. If you end up with the table on the last page of the document with no other text, try changing the positioning to [th!] rather than just [h!]. Bizarrely this seems to work wonders.
- How to get commas to not have too much space after them when used as thousands separators in numbers
Graphics etc.
- Getting a background image for a page
- Creating Posters (absolute positioning), and Using standard columns (more flexible, IMHO)
- Drop caps (Lettrine)
Other Tips Pages
Error Messages
Poster Tips
- Use
psnup -f my_poster_from_dvips.ps poster_in_proper_landscape.ps
if you have a landscape poster that you wish to print on A0. If you don't, you may well get an A1 version printed in the middle of an approximately sized A0 sheet (!).