One can use the ctanify script to automatically organize a flat latex package based on the tex directory structure:
cd /path/to/a/flat/latex/package
$TEXMF/scripts/ctanify/ctanify *
tar xfvz package.tar.gz
unzip -d $TEXMFHOME package.tds.zip
$\bar{\nu_{\mu}}$ % short bar
$\overline{\nu_{\mu}}$ % long bar
To put it simple,
$\text{provided by amsmath package}$
$a^{\text{adapt correct size when used in subscripts}}$
$a^{\mbox{same size as normal even when used in subscripts}}$
$\text{rendered slowly}, \mbox{rendered fast}$
$\text{spaces won't be ignored}$
$\mathrm{d}f/\mathrm{d}x$ % it is for math symbols printed upright
$\text{umlaut \ss works here}, \mathrm{\ss does not work here}$
$\operatorname{foo}$ % similar to \sin, with small spaces before and after
$\mathrm{foo}$ % without small spaces before and after
head figure.eps
shows something like
%!PS-Adobe-2.0 EPSF-2.0
%%BoundingBox: 0 0 567 384
%%Title: figure.eps
Sizes of the margins are defined by the BoundingBox, which can be editted directly. Several tools are available to find the optimized the bounding box automatically:
epstool --copy --bbox orignal.eps new.eps
ps2epsi orignal.eps new.eps
If one does not want to change the original file, he can crop the figure inside the latex file using the graphicx package:
\includegraphics[trim=lx ly rx ry, clip]{figure}
supertabular and probably xtab is older than longtable. One should not use longtable inside table environment, because the latter prevent tables expending to many pages.
\usagepackage{longtable}
...
\begin{center}
\begin{longtable}{cc}
\caption[an example]{an example}\label{t:long}\\
item 1 & item 2 \\
\endfirsthead
\multicolumn{2}{c}{\tablename\ \thetable{} an example (Cont'd)}\\
item 1 & item 2 \\
\endhead
\multicolumn{2}{c}{\tablename\ \thetable{} Cont'd on next page}\\
\endfoot
\endlastfoot
1 & 2 \\
3 & 4 \\
\end{longtable}
\end{center}
\usepackage{ifpdf}
\ifpdf
\usepackage{epstopdf}
%\usepackage{pdflscape} % pdf version of lscape
\usepackage[usenames,dvipsnames]{color}
\usepackage[pdftex,bookmarks=true,hypertexnames=false]{hyperref}
\pdfadjustspacing=1
\else
%\usepackage{lscape} % provide \begin{landscape}...\end{landscape}
\usepackage[usenames,dvips]{color}
\usepackage[ps2pdf]{hyperref}
\fi
One has to find out first which entries in a bibtex item can be shown as specified by the style file with the surfix .bst,
$ vi a-specific-bibtex-style-file.bst
...
ENTRY
{ address
author
booktitle
chapter
collaboration
edition
editor
howpublished
institution
journal
key
month
note
number
organization
pages
publisher
school
series
title
type
volume
year
url
doi
eprint
pubmed
}
{}
{ label extra.label sort.label short.list }
...
Entry note is your best bet,
@article{eg,
author = {Some Body and others},
note = {\url{http://some.body.com}},
}
\url is provided by hyperref package or the old url package.
If you regret from time to time that you should have not deleted some parts of your latex document, you should consider put your file under version control. If you are the only one working on the document, both RCS and Git are good choices. They save the history of revisions together with your working file locally, which allows you to use them even when you don’t have Ethernet connection to some server where histories are saved.
If you would like to backup your work in an additional location, consider using GitHub, where your work is publicly accessible, or Dropbox, where your work is kept private unless you choose to share it.
If you save the whole working directory to Dropbox, temporary files generated during the compiling of LaTeX are also saved in Dropbox, which is probably not what you want. The solution is to keep your working directory out of Dropbox while keep the directory for version control in it.
The way to realize that using RCS + Dropbox is to symbol link the RCS directory to Dropbox as shown in the following example:
~/Dropbox $ ls -F
rcs/
~/Dropbox $ cd ~/Working
~/Working $ ls -l
drwxr-xr-x 3 user group 4.0K time RCS->~/Dropbox/rcs/doc1/
-rw-r--r-- 1 user group 2345 time doc1.tex
The way to realize that using Git + Dropbox is to at first turn /path/to/latex/doc/ into a working directory controlled by Git,
/path/to/latex/doc $ git init
Initialized empty Git repository in /path/to/latex/doc/.git/
/path/to/latex/doc $ git add .
/path/to/latex/doc $ git commit -m "first commit"
24 files changed, 23391 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 doc.tex
...
then create an empty bare repository in Dropbox,
$ git init --bare ~/Dropbox/git/my-latex-doc.git
and at last, connect and push contents in your working directory to the bare repository in Dropbox,
/path/to/latex/doc $ git remote add dropbox ~/Dropbox/git/my-latex-doc.git
/path/to/latex/doc $ git push -u dropbox master
When you have updated your working directory, you can push changes to your bare repository in Dropbox,
/path/to/latex/doc $ git push
According to http://www.cespedes.org/blog/85/how-to-escape-latex-special-characters, there are 10 special characters, # $ % & \ ^ _ { } ~, in LaTeX. Most of them can be escaped prepending a simple backslash, but \, ^ and ~ need special treatment:
\title{Jing LIU \thanks{jing.liu@ipmu.jp}}
\title{Jing LIU \\ Kavli IPMU}
Or use http://ctan.org/pkg/authblk instead.
’–shell-escape’ allows pdflatex to run shell commands during process, e.g. run epstopdf to convert eps figures to their pdf version. Please check the man page of pdflatex for detail.
Put the following to ~/.latexmkrc to enable shell escape all the time:
$pdflatex='pdflatex --shell-escape %O %S';
$\mathrm{d}f/\mathrm{d}x$
\usepackage{amsmath}
\begin{equation}
\begin{split}
&\frac{\mathrm{d}\sigma(E_{\nu},E_{nr})}{\mathrm{d}E_{nr}} =
\frac{G^{2}_{F}M}{2\pi} \left[\vphantom{\frac{1}{2}}\right.
(G_V+G_A)^2 +\\
&(G_V-G_A)^2 \left(1-\frac{E_{nr}}{E_{\nu}}\right)^2 -
(G_V^2-G_A^2)\frac{ME_{nr}}{E^2_{\nu}}
\left.\vphantom{\frac{1}{2}}\right]
\end{split}
\end{equation}
where “&” is used to align different lines. “\left[” and “\right]” cannot be separated to different lines. One has to put “\left[\vphantom{\frac{1}{2}}\right.” in one line and “\left.\vphantom{\frac{1}{2}}\right]” in another. Things in \vaphantom won’t be shown by latex. It is used to calculate size of “\left[” and “\right]”.
https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1522/pdfendlink-ended-up-in-different-nesting-level-than-pdfstartlink
when this error occurs, write down the page number where pdflatex aborted, then add the “draft” option to hyperref:
\usepackage[draft]{hyperref}
and recompile the document. PDF output will now be generated, the problematic link should be the citation whose latter half begins the page where pdflatex aborted. After slightly rearranging the text to avoid the linebreak, the [draft] option can be removed.
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