LateX tips

Here are a few tips for Latex.

• Include the following package to obtain \toprule and \midrule commands inside a latex document. booktabs package

\usepackage{booktabs}

• To adjust the width of table, use adjustbox package which allows to force the table to the specified width

\usepackage{adjustbox}

Example usage :

\begin{table}
	\begin{adjustbox}{max width=\textwidth}
		\begin{tabular}{llrcr}
		\end{tabular}
	\end{adjustbox}
\end{table}

• Just a reminder, the label in a figure or table applies to the caption so it should be put after the \caption command !

\caption{}
\label{}

• To avoid an empty page after a \page or \chapter, simply add oneside in the documentclass options like :

\documentclass[oneside]{memoir}

• To add abbreviations, use nomenclature package and follow the descriptions provide at the following link

• To strike through (bar) the text, use this :

\usepackage[normalem]{ulem}
%if overlay is needed
\renewcommand<>{\sout}[1]{
\alt#2{\beameroriginal{\sout}{#1}}{#1}
}	

• To delete headline on top of each frame in beamer, simply add

\setbeamertemplate{headline}{}

• To add outline at the beginning of each section, just use the following code (tip found on link) :

\setbeamerfont{myTOC}{series=\bfseries,size=\Large}
\AtBeginSection[]{\frame{\frametitle{Outline}%
	   \usebeamerfont{myTOC}\tableofcontents[current]}}

• To add source code in latex, use the link
• Convert text with special characters into Latex recognized text, use the link
• Spell checking .tex files …

aspell --lang=en --mode=tex check file.tex

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