$\TeX$ and $\LaTeX$

$\TeX$ is one of the masterpieces of Don Knuth.

At some point in the early 2000, I switched to $\LaTeX$ for convenience, and almost exclusively use the latter now.

Formatting

• Wrapping figures in text: [1]

Lists

• To change spacing between items, put after \begin{itemize}:

\addtolength{\itemsep}{-0.5\baselineskip}

For more advanced redefinitions, see the tweaklist.sty package.

Footnotes

There is a $\LaTeX$ 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).