LaTeX Best Practice

Coloring rows in tables

2018-08-14T15:24:00.002+01:00

For a while I was looking for a solution on how effectively make colors in a table.
Here is a good description:

http://texblog.org/2011/04/19/highlight-table-rowscolumns-with-color/

Create tables made easy

2018-03-20T14:36:00.000+00:00

This tools provides a great help when creating LaTeX tables from html, xls, etc formats and vice-versa.

https://www.tablesgenerator.com/latex_tables

Reference to equations

2017-10-29T09:51:00.000+00:00

In my opinion, for equations the best is to use \eqref{}.

How to use reference to page number

2017-10-29T09:49:00.000+00:00

For good or bad, I extensively use \autoref from the hyperref package. Mainly because it's simple.

Well there's a command named \autopageref{} which replaces \pageref{} and does exactly what I wanted. More info here.

How to reduce space between lines in a table

2017-10-20T08:37:00.000+01:00

Sometimes (horizontal) space is jut too much in a LaTeX table.
In order to decrease it, it is actually possible to give negative values to addlinespce

\begin{tabular}{ll}

Line1&some text\\

\addlinespace[-0.3ex]

Line1&some text\\

\end{tabular}

Original link:
https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/268508/reduce-the-space-between-two-lines-in-a-latex-table

Convert latex equation to png

2016-06-17T14:25:00.002+01:00

A nice web resource to convert latex equation to .png figures is latex2png

How to write nice equations in LaTeX beamer

2015-11-24T10:54:00.003+00:00

The equations in the default beamer presentation slides are rather unattractive.
In my opinion this is merely because of the fonts used for equations.

You can change it by changing the font-theme for equations.

\usefonttheme[onlymath]{serif}

This will result equations like in the articles in your beamer presentation.

For further hints check out this post.

Latex symbol converter

2015-07-06T14:26:00.001+01:00

This is a resource where you can convert any text (utf8) to latex symbol notation.

http://w2.syronex.com/jmr/latex-symbols-converter

Horizontal distances in equations

2015-04-14T10:24:00.000+01:00

I was wondering for a while how to set the horizontal distances inside the equations.
Well, here is a fairly goo description. See the original source here.

Infinity symbol in latex

2015-04-03T19:14:00.004+01:00

The infinity symbol in LaTeX is simply written as

$ \infty$

2015-02-11T07:52:00.002+00:00

Ever wondered about how to set the font sizes you want? Here is a picture that explains all \small \tiny \scriptsize \large \huge etc sizes

See source and complete description here

Placing a figure here, I said right here!

2015-01-16T12:18:00.000+00:00

Sometimes the LaTeX engine decides not to insert the figure exactly where we want, and we want it right there. Well [h] or [h!] were the options I have tried so far, but they do not work well all the time, however if the figure is inserted with [H] option, the engine will not decide differently, even if next page or other things would ruin the layout, so I suggest to use

\begin{figure}[H]
...
\end{figure}

For more info you might check here.

Maple output to LaTeX

2014-12-15T20:01:00.000+00:00

Maple can produce latex source using the ... wait for it ... latex( . ) command :-D

latex(expr, options)

latex(expr, filename, options)

See here for more details.
Works on Windows and Linux as well, no experience with OSX (yet).

How to write limit in latex

2014-11-13T16:38:00.000+00:00

\operatorname*{lim}_{x\rightarrow \inf} f(x) = y

This is hardcore!

2014-09-06T18:40:00.002+01:00

web.mit.edu/rsi/www/pdfs/advmath.pdf

Hardcore latex math, thanks for all contributors

How to write parenthesis when referring to equation with \autoref

2014-07-30T17:28:00.000+01:00

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/153496/combining-autoref-and-eqref

Writing today's date

2014-06-17T12:37:00.002+01:00

Nothing could be more simple than writing the today's date, for instance into a title page. You only have to include:

\today

Spell check an entire project

2014-06-17T11:00:00.001+01:00

It is not easy to deal with a large project including several .tex files. Sometimes I need to spell-check all files manually. Here is a solution, however it would be better to integrate this into an editor, like kile

https://paulbradley.org/aspell/

How to write appendix to scrreprt

2014-06-14T12:41:00.003+01:00

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/137150/appendix-title-with-scrreprt

Missing abstract in scrreprt

2014-05-19T16:39:00.000+01:00

I have just started writing my thesis, and I noticed that the title for the abstract is not spelled out. Well, as it seems, the abstract has to be explicitly switched on with scrreprt class using the abstracton option.

\documentclass[a4paper,10pt, abstracton]{scrreprt}

Numbering equations like 1a and 1b

2014-03-05T14:53:00.000+00:00

use align end subequations instead of eqnarray or equation

\begin{subequations}
    \begin{align}
        p(w) &\sim \mathcal{N}(0, Q)\\
        p(v) &\sim \mathcal{N}(0, R)
    \end{align}
\end{subequations}

See here.

Making list / glossary of acronyms and abbreviations

2014-03-01T10:08:00.000+00:00

The easiest way to write abbreviations is to make use of the acronym package, see
http://latexbestpractice.blogspot.pt/2013/08/writing-acronyms-and-abbreviations-in.html

To define the glossary (list of abbreviations), I define acronyms using
\acro{short}[short-to-appear]{full-definition} command. Then referring the abbreviations with \ac command. Note \acf, is for full description, even if it's not the first occurrence, and \acs for plural form.

\usepackage{acronym}

...

\subsection*{Abbreviations}
\begin{acronym}
    \acro{mse}[MSE]{Mean Squared Error}
    \acro{mmse}[MMSE]{Minimum Mean Squared Error}
    \acro{}[ODE]{Ordinary Differential Equation}
\end{acronym}

...
\ac{ode} ...
\ac{mse} ....
\acf{ode}

How to prevent figures and tables from floating

2014-02-17T11:51:00.000+00:00

Many times I received messages like

  LaTeX Warning: `!h' float specifier changed to `!ht'.

resulting my figures / tables appearing on the top of the page, however I wanted to place the figure _exactly_ where at that position.

TThe solution I found here is to use the package float

\usepackage{float}
...
\begin{figure}[H]
...
\end{figure}

How to change fonts in beamer equations

2014-01-21T13:13:00.004+00:00

For a long time it was really annoying that the default fonts for the beamer template is just not right. I wanted to have the default fonts back for the equations, that look the same as in articles. Then I found this:

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/41572/setting-math-fonts-in-beamer

The solution that was working best for me was:

\usefonttheme[onlymath]{serif}

how to write naiive

2013-12-16T21:38:00.000+00:00

na\"\i ve

Works for me