HowTo_Latex.md

How To: Latex

During writing and editing

Compute the number of words

In the command line:

texcount completeFileName

texcount is one of texmaker's packages

Highlight text

\usepackage{color,soul}
...
\hl{Text to be highlighted}

Change lateral margin

% in the header
\usepackage{geometry}
\geometry{margin=1in}

Change font

Font catalogue: http://www.tug.dk/FontCatalogue/
e.g. urwpalladio (Font: http://www.tug.dk/FontCatalogue/urwpalladio/):

\usepackage[sc]{mathpazo}
\linespread{1.05}         % Palladio needs more leading (space between lines)
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

Figures

Figure creation

Easy way using pptx:

• Create figure in pptx
• Print current page as .pdf
• To crop the figure (e.g. white margins) in Mac:
  • Open the figure in Preview
  • Tools -> Rectangular selection --> select the area
  • Tools -> Crop

Figure inclusion

% in the header
\usepackage{graphicx} % to include figure
\usepackage{float}    % to locate figure in text

% in the document
\begin{figure}[H]     % H = position Here in text
    \includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{figure_name.pdf}
    \caption{figure_caption}
    \label{fig:figure_label}
\end{figure}

Figure reference in text

(Fig. \ref{fig:figure_label})

Links

• Showing link

  \url{https://doi.org/10.1016/j.media.2014.05.008}
  

• Not showing link

  \href{https://www.eosc-hub.eu/}{The European Open Science Cloud}
  

• Icons

  % in the header
  \usepackage{fontawesome}
  
  % in the document
  \faGithub
  \faCode
  

Tables

\begin{table}[h]
  \begin{tabular}{lccc} % left, centered, centered, centered # put as many as the number of columns
    \hline % create horizontal line
    row1col1  & row1col2  & row1col3  & row1col4 \\
  \end{tabular}
  \caption{table_caption}
  \label{table:table_label}
\end{table}

Table reference in text

(Table \ref{table:table_label})

Table tricks

• Ident in cell:

  \hspace{3mm} text
  

• Break text in cell:

  % in the header 
  \usepackage{makecell}	
  
  % in the document
  \makecell[r]{first part \\ second part}
  

• Merge table cells:

  % in the header
  \usepackage{multirow}	
  
  % in the document
  \multicolumn{n}{|c|}{text} % n = number of cells to merge, |c| = left and right border and center text  
  

• Fixed width table columns with text raggedright/centered/raggedleft

  % in header
  \usepackage{array}
  \newcolumntype{L}[1]{>{\raggedright\let\newline\\\arraybackslash\hspace{0pt}}m{#1}}
  \newcolumntype{C}[1]{>{\centering\let\newline\\\arraybackslash\hspace{0pt}}m{#1}}
  \newcolumntype{R}[1]{>{\raggedleft\let\newline\\\arraybackslash\hspace{0pt}}m{#1}}
  
  % in text
  \begin{tabular}{| c | L{3cm} | C{3cm} | R{3cm} |}
  ...
  \end{tabular}
  

References

Export bibliograpy from Mendeley

• Tag the paper: For each paper, in the Tags field, type the paper's tag (e.g. pykneer)
• Export biblio:
  • In the search type the tag
  • Select all the paper
  • File -> Export(Make sure not to leave spaces in the file name)

Insert bibliography in latex file

% in the header
\bibliographystyle{plain} % or any other style

% in the text
\cite{paper_keyword}

% under "References"
\bibliography{file_name.bib}

In texmaker, alternatively run BibTex once and Quick Build twice