Cheatsheet LaTeX

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LaTeX Cheatsheet

Abbreviation	Definition
pt	A point, is the default length unit. About 0.3515mm
mm	a millimetre
cm	a centimetre
in	an inch
ex	the height of an x in the current font
em	the width of an m in the current font
\columnsep	distance between columns
\columnwidth	width of the column
\linewidth	width of the line in the current environment
\paperwidth	width of the page
\paperheight	height of the page
\textwidth	width of the text
\textheight	height of the text
\unitleght	units of length in the picture environment.

Float

Parameter	Position
h	Place here, approximately at the point it occurs in the source text.
t	Position at the top of the page.
b	Position at the bottom of the page.
p	Put on a special page for floats only.
!	Override internal parameters LaTeX uses for determining "good" float positions.
H	Places the float at precisely the location in the LATEX code.

Label Prefix

Prefix	Referencing
ch:	chapter
sec:	section
subsec:	subsection
fig:	figure
tab:	table
eq:	equation
lst:	code listing
itm:	enumerated list item
alg:	algorithm
app:	appendix subsection

BibLaTeX Fields

@book{Xbook-123,
    author    = {},
    gender    = {},
    title     = {},
    subtitle  = {},
    publisher = {},
    volume    = {},
    number    = {},
    series    = {},
    %shortseries
    location   = {},
    edition   = {},
    year      = {},
    month     = {},
    note      = {},
    isbn      = {},
    doi       = {},
    language  = {},
    pagetotal = {},
    
    keywords  = {},
}

Tutorials

• "Getting Started" by Penn State University Libraries