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The Lazy Guide to LaTeX

 

Over the years I've shamelessly searched the world wide web for quick tips for ways to "beautify" the thesis. I hope the authors would not mind me sharing their tips. I'd like to say a massive thank you to all of them. Please visit their sites for more tips and if you have other tips, please share them here (by clicking on "comments" at the bottom of the page). For quick access, the tips are categorised according to where they may appear in a thesis. A more detailed LaTeX template (which is a .tex file) may be downloaded (see right panel).

 

"Overall" style

 

For my own convenience I prepared the thesis by writing each chapter in a different file. Thus, a "master" file is needed to put them together.

  
Chapter

 

Most of the tips featured in this Chapter are not found in the "lshort" guide that comes with each LaTeX installation. Some examples:

  • Equations (such as the one below):

  • \mathop{\sum\sum}_{1\leq i_1 \leq i_2 \leq k} \phi_{i_2}(x_{i_2})

  • Figures - aligned neatly in 2x2 or 3x3 etc grid

  • Tables - super long tables that need more than one page (and in horizontal format!)

 

  
Bibliography

 

Organising BibTeX (separating the journals from the books, the statistical from the clinical) and calling them with \bibliography.

  
     
     

 

 

Related Links

LaTeX - A document preparation system

UK-TUG - UK TeX Users' Group

 

Styles

Quotation(PDF Document) - Insert right after chapter heading

Long tables - Big tables (over multiple pages and/or in landscape)

Citation - Natbib

 

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Master file

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