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$\mathrm{\TeX}$ and $\mathrm{\LaTeX}$
$\mathrm{\TeX}$ is one of the masterpieces of Don Knuth.
It is the uppercase version of $\tau\epsilon\chi$, a Greek word for Tech, which is how $\mathrm{\TeX}$ should be pronounced (!?).
At some point in the early 2000, I switched to $\mathrm{\LaTeX}$ for convenience, and almost exclusively use the latter now.
Equations
Alignment
Splitting equations within an aligned set can be done as followed~[1]:
\begin{align}
a &= \begin{aligned}[t]
&b + c + d +\\
&c + e + f + g + h + i
\end{aligned}\\
k &= \begin{aligned}[t]
&l + m + n\\
&+ o + p + q
\end{aligned}
\end{align}
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\begin{align} a &= \begin{aligned}[t] &b + c + d +\\ &c + e + f + g + h + i \end{aligned}\\ k &= \begin{aligned}[t] &l + m + n\\ &+ o + p + q \end{aligned} \end{align} |
Fonts
See Will Robertson preambles to use different fontsets.
Formatting
- Wrapping figures in text: [2]
Lists
- To change spacing between items, put after \begin{itemize}:
\addtolength{\itemsep}{-0.5\baselineskip}
- To change the starting value of an enumerate list:
\begin{enumerate}
\setcounter{enumi}{4}
\item fifth element
\end{enumerate}
- To change enumeration (with square brackets, parentheses, etc.): (see [3])
\usepackage{enumitem}% http://ctan.org/pkg/enumitem
\begin{document}
\begin{enumerate}[label={[\arabic*]}]
\item First item
\item Second item
\item \ldots
\item Last item
\end{enumerate}
\end{document}
Footnotes
There is a $\mathrm{\LaTeX}$ package, footmisc, that is useful for manipulating footnote formatting.
- Spacing between footnotes:
%\footnotesep is the space between footnotes:
\setlength{\footnotesep}{-0.5\baselineskip}
%\footins is the space between the text body and the footnotes:
\setlength{\skip\footins}{1cm}
- To use footnotes to feature reference-style annotations, that is, with no subscripts and with enclosing brackets [1], add in the preamble:
\makeatletter
\renewcommand{\@makefnmark}
%{\@textsuperscript{\textit{\tiny{\@thefnmark}}}}
{[\@thefnmark]}
\renewcommand\@makefntext[1]{%
\parindent 1em \noindent [\@thefnmark]\enspace #1}
\makeatother
(I left, commented, the original definition of the footnote).
Geometry
\usepackage[a4paper, total={6in, 8in}]{geometry}
Units
We use the siunitx package:
\usepackage{siunitx}
It'd take \SI{500}{\milli\second} to understand.
Please write \SI{10}{\micro\meter} and not 10$\mu\mathrm{m}$
There is also a SIUnits which is however deprecated [6]. Sometimes it comes in handy, for instance when you want to add non-numerical inputs (though siunitx should be able to allow that as well).
Line numbering
It's useful to number profusely manuscripts of which you are discussing every line. Package lineno does that.
\usepackage{lineno}
\linenumbers
It may have a hard time cohabiting with amsmath, however. It appears that if you include this monstrosity somewhere in your preamble, it'll perform well enough for line-dropping with your co-authors:
\newcommand*\patchAmsMathEnvironmentForLineno[1]{%
\expandafter\let\csname old#1\expandafter\endcsname\csname #1\endcsname
\expandafter\let\csname oldend#1\expandafter\endcsname\csname end#1\endcsname
\renewenvironment{#1}%
{\linenomath\csname old#1\endcsname}%
{\csname oldend#1\endcsname\endlinenomath}}%
\newcommand*\patchBothAmsMathEnvironmentsForLineno[1]{%
\patchAmsMathEnvironmentForLineno{#1}%
\patchAmsMathEnvironmentForLineno{#1*}}%
\AtBeginDocument{%
\patchBothAmsMathEnvironmentsForLineno{equation}%
\patchBothAmsMathEnvironmentsForLineno{align}%
\patchBothAmsMathEnvironmentsForLineno{flalign}%
\patchBothAmsMathEnvironmentsForLineno{alignat}%
\patchBothAmsMathEnvironmentsForLineno{gather}%
\patchBothAmsMathEnvironmentsForLineno{multline}%
}
See also
- BibTeX to manage references.
- laussy.sty my personal $\mathrm{\TeX}$ definitions.
Links
On this Web
Elsewhere on the Internet
- The Comprehensive $\LaTeX$ Symbol List of November 2015 (331 pages of glyphs).