Latex Packages & Tricks by Mengting Wan
转载自：https://github.com/MengtingWan/bittersweet-phd/blob/master/latex.md
Table of Contents:
- Latex Packages & Tricks
- Control float environments
- "subcaption": Create sub-figures and sub-tables
- "enumitem": Control layout of itemize, enumerate & description
- "booktabs": Beautiful tables
pandas.DataFrame.to_latex(): Dump data from Python to LaTex- "makecell": Force line breaks inside a table cell
- "tabularx": Tabulars with adjustable-width columns
- Quotation Marks and Dashes
- Resize parentheses, brackets and braces
- Overbrace and underbrace
- Math symbols and fonts
- "bm": A lazy solution to bold symbols in maths mode
- "mathtools": Beautiful maths
- "cleveref": A clever way to reference
- "xcolor": Color your LaTex
Latex Packages & Tricks
Things could make your writing easier and your paper more professional.
Overleaf is a convenient online collaborative latex writing platform. It also provides some basic latex writing tips here.
Control float environments
- A comprehensive answer!
- Some parameters in the above document could be very helpful
- e.g. put
\setlength{\textfloatsep}{5pt plus 1pt minus 1pt}(default 20pt plus 2pt minus 4pt) before\begin{document}, this would save a lot of space between top or bottom tables/figures and the text area
- Options
bandhare disabled fortable*andfigure*environments (cross-column tables and figures)
"subcaption": Create sub-figures and sub-tables
"enumitem": Control layout of itemize, enumerate & description
"enumitem" is a very helpful package if you want to reduce spaces in itemize/enumerate environments
- Package "enumitem"
- A simple example:
import the package first: \usepackage{enumitem} then put \setlist{nosep,after=\vspace{0.5\baselineskip},leftmargin=12pt} before before \begin{document}, this would (globally) remove separations between items, reduce the space at the bottom of list environments and reduce the left indentation to 12pt.
"booktabs": Beautiful tables
"booktabs" might be one of the most popular latex packages in academic writing.
- Package "booktabs"
- A simple example
- personal preference: vertical lines are ugly here, don't use them.
- A fancier example (stepped table)
- Another fancy example (with multi-columns)
- Official document
pandas.DataFrame.to_latex(): Dump data from Python to LaTex
pandas.DataFrame.to_latex() would render a pandas.DataFrame object in python to a LaTeX tabular environment "booktabs"-style table.
"makecell": Force line breaks inside a table cell
This package can be very helpful if you want to force line breaks inside a table cell
"tabularx": Tabulars with adjustable-width columns
Quotation Marks and Dashes
- Single quotation marks: ` and '
- Double quotation marks: `` and ''
- Even fancier examples
- Dashes:
-inter-word--page range, 1–10---punctuation dash$-$minus sign
Resize parentheses, brackets and braces
- Resize automatically
- simple
\left(and\right)would work in most cases
- simple
- Resize manually
Overbrace and underbrace
\[
z = \overbrace{
\underbrace{x}_\text{real} + i
\underbrace{y}_\text{imaginary}
}^\text{complex number}
\]
- A fancier example (with overlaps):
- "underoverlap": a package to handle this case
Math symbols and fonts
- Greek letters and math symbols
- Mathematical Fonts
\mathit{}could be useful for long identifiers in math
"bm": A lazy solution to bold symbols in maths mode
"mathtools": Beautiful maths
- Package "mathtools"
- Examples
- one of the most useful command might be
\mathclap{}, which can reduce spaces in subscripts, exponents, etc.
- one of the most useful command might be
- Official document
"cleveref": A clever way to reference
"cleveref" can help us to define unified reference formats in the global environment, so that we can keep using \cref{} regardless of the specific reference types (equation, section, etc.) in the document.
