Some Important Configurations in LaTex

configure-latex.md

Some Important Configurations in LaTex

Qin Yu, Apr 2020

• Some Important Configurations in LaTex
• Rules
• Notes
  • To add References section to TOC:
  • To solve more than 26 subfigure index:
  • To add bibliography:
  • To keep figures within its section
  • To get quote environment
  • Set space between paragraphs, indentation in first line
  • . in file names causes error

Rules

1. Label should always be after caption in figures
2. With the setting of [!htb] you'll get the best results for figure placement
3. Newline(s) between subfigure environment breaks side-by-side figures apart
4. # has to be escaped, i.e. use \#, which is especially common in URLs
5. The PDF bookmarks are a different thing than the table of contents. The bookmarks are not typeset by TeX: they simply are strings of characters, so no math or general formatting instructions are allowed. The easiest method to avoid the warnings is to use \texorpdfstring[*]:

   \subsubsection{Find an optimal \texorpdfstring{$\sigma$}{sigma}?}
   

6. The standard tools to insert a LaTeX file into another are \input and \include, but these are prone to errors if nested file importing is needed. For this reason the recommended option is the package import. [*]

Notes

To add References section to TOC:

To add a link to the references section in the table of content, use:

\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{References}
\printbibliography  % This alone does not add a link to TOC

To solve more than 26 subfigure index:

\usepackage{alphalph}
\renewcommand\thesubfigure{\alphalph{\value{subfigure}}}

To add bibliography:

Biblatex is an easier and more flexible interface and a better language localization than bibtex and natbib.

\usepackage{biblatex}
\addbibresource{file1.bib}
\addbibresource{file2.bib}

\begin{document}
\printbibliography
\end{document}

To keep figures within its section

After each section:

\FloatBarrier

To get quote environment

\usepackage{csquotes}

\begin{displayquote}
Sé que tengo un ego del tamaño de un planeta pequeño, pero incluso yo a
veces me equivoco
\end{displayquote}

Set space between paragraphs, indentation in first line

\setlength{\parindent}{0em}
\setlength{\parskip}{1em}

. in file names causes error

More than one . before file extension? e.g.

\includegraphics[width=0.75\linewidth]{figures/figure.0.3.eps}

gives error Unknown graphics extension: .0.3.eps.

Solution

\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{grffile}