Latex Notes

Latex Package Declarations (in top-level *.tex)

• For proper use of sideways tables/figures
  \usepackage[figuresright]{rotating}
• Example code to hyperlink all figure/table/chapter/section/bibliography references in the PDF:
  \usepackage[dvips, pdfpagemode = none,
      bookmarks = true, colorlinks = true,
      linkcolor = black, citecolor = black,
      urlcolor = blue,
      pdftitle = {MSEE Thesis},
      pdfauthor = {Jeremy W. Webb},
      pdfsubject = {MSEE Thesis},
      pdfcreator = {Jeremy W. Webb}
      ]{hyperref}

Useful Commands

• Courier mono-spaced font:
  <font face = "courier">Text.</font>
  <tt>Text.</tt>
• Colored fonts:
  <font color = "green">Text.</font>
  

Latex packages

• Great style files by Gregory Plett. This package is useful for submitting paper to IEEE journals such as JSSC, where the submission format is different from the final format. By using the submission mode and conditional expression of commenting the figures, changing from submission mode (single column, double space and list of tables/figures at the end of the paper) to final mode (double column, single space and figures/tables are distributed along the texts) are very straightforward.
  (a) Final mode commands:
  \documentclass{journal}{IEEEtran} % IEEEtran.cls
  \usepackage{ifthen}
  \newboolean{includefigs}
  \setboolean{includefigs}{true}
  \newcommand{\condcomment}[2]{ifthenelse{#1}{#2}{}}
  \condcomment{\boolean{includefigs}}{
  \begin{table or figure}
  \end{table or figure}
  }
  (b) Submission mode commands:
  \documentclass{submission, 12pt}{ieee} % ieee.cls from Gregory Plett
  \usepackage{ifthen}
  \newboolean{includefigs}
  \setboolean{includefigs}{false}
  \newcommand{\condcomment}[2]{ifthenelse{#1}{#2}{}}
  \input{endpics} % endpics.tex includes all the figures and tables