LaTeX Notes

LaTeX tips that I’ve needed at some point when writing papers and documents.

Moar Floats!

When you reach a “Too many unprocessed floats with marginpar” error due to usingn Tufte-book etc you’re going to need morefloats 🙃 Just add this package to your preamble:

• \usepackage{morefloats}
• \usepackage[maxfloats=25]{morefloats} (if you want to set a float limit)

Table Cell Flush Right

Have you ever needed to flush text right in a table cell? No, well you can just use \hfill in case you’re ever wondering…

Natbib Citation

Sébastien Merkel has put together a great Reference sheet for natbib usage. My most commonly used commands:

• \citet{jon90} : Jones et al. (1990)
• \citep{jon90} : (Jones et al., 1990)
• \citeauthor{jon90} : Jones et al.

Citing Webpages

I like to use Wikipedia’s Cite This Page example:

• Use the LaTeX package url by placing \usepackage{url} somewhere in the preamble (before \begin{document}).
• The template of the BibTeX entry is as follows:

@misc{ wiki:xxx,
    author = "{Wikipedia contributors}",
    title = "LaTeX --- {Wikipedia}{,} The Free Encyclopedia",
    year = "2011",
    howpublished = "\url{https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=LaTeX&oldid=413720397}",
    note = "[Online; accessed 17-October-2018]"
  }

Convert PDF Images to EPS

Although it’s becoming less common some conferences/journals will require images to be submitted in an EPS format rather than PDF/PNG etc. I usually generate PDF images, hence, I’m going to quickly run through how I convert PDF to EPS.

• Install Poppler:

$ conda install poppler

• Navigate to the directory where your PDF images are saved and execute the following:

$ pdftops -eps filename.pdf

A new EPS image file should appear in the same directory with the same filename as the PDF that was used to generate it.

TODO notes

Explain:

• Separate .tex compilation. Handy for say just working on just one chapter of a thesis at a time.