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Latex Quick Reference

This document provides a summary of basic LaTeX commands for document structure, formatting text, inserting citations, tables, figures, equations, and more. It includes environments for lists, verbatim text, quotes, theorems, and matrices. Common font styles, Greek letters, and mathematical symbols are demonstrated. The bibliography can be generated using BibTeX or thebibliography. Floating objects like tables and figures can be placed with optional positioning parameters.

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Latex Quick Reference

This document provides a summary of basic LaTeX commands for document structure, formatting text, inserting citations, tables, figures, equations, and more. It includes environments for lists, verbatim text, quotes, theorems, and matrices. Common font styles, Greek letters, and mathematical symbols are demonstrated. The bibliography can be generated using BibTeX or thebibliography. Floating objects like tables and figures can be placed with optional positioning parameters.

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Gardner Basic Commands


Notes \\ = line break \bigskip, \medskip, \smallskip to increase size of line break \hangindent=.5in before a paragraph forces a hanging indent % = comment run LaTeX twice if any references, citations or tables of contents are used. Preamble \usepackage[margin=1in]{geometry} for tree-saving margins \usepackage{setspace} \doublespacing for double-spaced documents Document template
\documentclass{article} \usepackage[options]{packagename } \author{Name} \title{Title} \date{Date} \begin{document} \maketitle ... \end{document}

LaTeX Quick Reference


Verbatim
\begin{verbatim} ... \end{verbatim}

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can use multiple file types eps, pdf, jpg, png same rules for referencing and positioning as table environment Footnote
Normal text\footnote{Contents}.

use for typesetting code use \verb+stuff here+ for inline verbatim environment (any delimiter works) Verse
\begin{verse} First line \\ Second line \\ \end{verse}

\thanks{text} can be used to insert attribution footnote with * at beginning Theorem


\newthoerem{name}[counter]{text} [section] \begin{name}{text} ... \end{name}

lines have hanging indents Quote


\begin{quote} ... \end{quote}

Table
\begin{table}[htbp] \begin{center} \begin{tabular}{ccc} 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 \end{tabular} \caption{default} \end{center} \label{defaulttable} \end{table}

text is what gets printed, name is the reference Use \newtheorem*{} for unnumbered Precede \newtheorem with \theoremstyle{plain, remark, } Requires \usepackage{amsthm}

Math
Inline formula
$x+y$

Display formulas
\[x+y\]

Document structure
\section{Name} \subsection{Name} \subsubsection{Name} \paragraph{Name} \subparagraph{Name}

\section*{Name} suppresses numbering \tableofcontents generates the TOC Font styles bold: \textbf{stuff} italic: \emph{stuff} typewriter: \texttt{stuff} Cite
\cite{cite-key}

\multicolumn{3}{c}{Column Header} \begin{tabular}{|llr|} to put vertical lines on either side and to make the first columns left-aligned and the thirds rightaligned use \hline to make a horizontal line [htbp] specifies position preferences h: here; t:top; b:bottom; p: special page for just float objects in order specified use \ref{defaulttable} to reference the table use p{2in} to create a paragraph columns use \\[3pt] to adjust spacing between rows Longtable
\begin{longtable}{lrr} \caption{text}\\ 1 & 2 \\ \endhead 3 & 4 \\ \label{text} \end{longtable}

Equation environment
\begin{equation} x=y \label{whatever} \end{equation}

Equation array environment


\begin{eqnarray} a&=&b+c\\ d&=&e+f \label{whatever} \end{eqnarray}

aligns equations at = signs \nonumber suppresses number on specified line Key mathematical symbols superscript: x^2; subscript: x_2 fraction: \frac{x}{y} = x/y Greek letters: \alpha, \beta, \gamma, etc. decorations: \hat{x}, \bar{x}, \tilde{x}, \vec{a}. \dot{a}, \stackrel{a}{b} puts a over b \rightarrow, \leftarrow, \Rightarrow (double arrow), \Leftrightarrow \leq less than or equal to, \geq fences: \left(, \right), \left[, etc. Matrix
\left[\begin{array}{ccc} a&b&c\\ d&e&f \end{array}\right]

works with BibTeX and \thebibliography Quick bibliography


\begin{thebibliography}{99} \bibitem{cite-key} Citation. \end{thebibliography}

BibTeX bibliography
\bibliographystyle{plain} \bibliography{database}

database is a .bib file stored externally plain, unsrt, abbrev are default bibliography styles

Use for multipage tables Requires \usepackage{longtable} Automatically centered and positioned Text before \endhead is repeated across pagebreaks Graphics
\begin{figure}[htbp] \begin{center} \includegraphics{Graphic.pdf} \caption{example caption} \label{fig:example} \end{center} \end{figure}

Environments
Lists
\begin{itemize} \item Thing \end{itemize}

produces a bulleted list use \begin{enumerate} for a numbered list

requires graphicx package

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