Tag: reference
Squeezing space in LaTeX
by Mostafa on Oct.29, 2009, under How To ..., LaTeX
Academic papers and articled often come with a predefined maximum page count and it is common to find that it’s a limit that is easily exceeded. Under such circumstances, it becomes necessary to pull a few “dirty tricks” that squeeze out every last bit of available space.
The most common approach is to simply redefine the ‘\baselinestretch’ variable in the preamble of the document. The parameter controls the scaling of the space between the bottom of two successive lines of text. Therefore, the definition used to squeeze that space by 2% is:
\renewcommand{\baselinestretch}{0.98}
While that trick alone is sufficient in most cases, it is useful to be aware of other spacing parameters that can be adjusted. The Cambridge University Engineering Department has a nice page with lots of details. I personally find ‘\textfloatsep’ to be one of the more useful ones:
\addtolength{\textfloatsep}{-5mm}
It is used to reduce the amount of space that is usually left between a float and the adjacent text block (e.g. end of caption of a top-figure and the text below).
The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List
by Mostafa on Aug.22, 2006, under LaTeX
A handy document listing all the symbols possible with latex:
A copy is also available here.
BASH Commands
by Mostafa on Feb.14, 2006, under Linux, Software
Here’s a nice list:
Bash scripting guides
by Mostafa on Dec.30, 2005, under Linux, Software
Here’s a modest list:
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-Guide/html/
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/toc.htm
http://cfaj.freeshell.org/shell/
http://www.shelldorado.com/
http://home.comcast.net/~j.p.h/cus-faq.html
http://sed.sourceforge.net/sed1line.txt
http://www.student.northpark.edu/pemente/sed/sedfaq.html
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/faq/part1/
http://www.shelldorado.com/goodcoding/cmdargs.html
http://www.macobserver.com/tips/macosxcl101/
http://www.wagoneers.com/UNIX/FIND/find-usage.html
http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/bash/bashref.html
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/
Got the links from a post by Charles Howse on the 30th of December 2005 to the thread Why questions don’t get answered, or “No, I’ve already RTFM, tell me the answer!” on fedora-list.
Prosper (TeX) Tutorials
by Mostafa on Aug.21, 2005, under LaTeX, Software
Found a couple of prosper tutorials that were particularly helpful: