This is meant as a LaTeX reference card. It is free to use, and I am accepting any type of useful contribution. If the reference card is missing something or something is not right, you are more than welcome to contribute to the project.
- LaTeX tips and tricks
- Contributions
- Tabel of contents
- Inserting an image
- Inserting a code listing
- Text formatting
- Citations
- Making labels
- Math in LaTeX
- Tables in LaTeX
\begin{figure}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=1\textwidth]{path/to/figure.png}
\caption{The caption that appears under the image}
\label{fig:label_of_figure}
\end{figure}
Please note that this step requires you to have a preamble.tex with the following lines in it.
\usepackage{listings}
\usepackage{caption}
\DeclareCaptionFont{white}{\color{white}}
\DeclareCaptionFormat{listing}{\colorbox{gray}{\parbox{\textwidth}{#1#2#3}}}
\captionsetup[lstlisting]{format=listing,labelfont=white,textfont=white}
\lstdefinestyle{framed}
{
frame=lrb,
belowcaptionskip=-1pt,
xleftmargin=8pt,
framexleftmargin=8pt,
framexrightmargin=5pt,
framextopmargin=5pt,
framexbottommargin=5pt,
framesep=0pt,
rulesep=0pt,
autogobble,
columns=fullflexible,
showspaces=false,
showtabs=false,
breaklines=true,
stepnumber=1,
numbers=left,
showstringspaces=false,
breakatwhitespace=true,
escapeinside={(*@}{@*)},
commentstyle=\color{greencomments},
keywordstyle=\color{bluekeywords},
stringstyle=\color{redstrings},
numberstyle=\color{graynumbers},
basicstyle=\ttfamily\footnotesize,
frame=shadowbox,
tabsize=4,
captionpos=b
}
\lstinputlisting[language=c, style=framed, label=code:label_for_code,caption=Caption of the file]{path/to/file.c}
\begin{lstlisting}[language=c, style=framed, label=code:label_for_code,caption=Caption of the code]
#include <stdio.h>
/* This is a comment */
int main(void) {
printf("Hello World!");
return 0;
}
\end{lstlisting}
The following formatting can all be mixed.
\textbf{Your text here}\textit{Your text here}\underline{Your text here}
In order to use citations you must have a library to keep track of these. I recommend using the following line, in your preamble
\usepackage[backend=bibtex, bibencoding=utf8]{biblatex}In order to link this to your .bib file, include it in your preamble using
\addbibresource{path/to/file.bib}Here is an example of what a citation might look like in your .bib file
@BOOK{Mittelbach2005,
author = {Frank Mittelbach},
edition = {2. ed.},
publisher = {Addison-Wesley},
title = {The LATEX companion},
year = 2005
}Now in order to reference this citation anywhere in the code, you can use the following command
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor
incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. \cite{Mittelbach2005}In case you need to point out something that needs a citation, you can include the following, in your preamble.tex and call \citationneeded whereever you need a citation
\newcommand{\citationneeded}[1][]{\color{blue} [Citation needed]\color{black}}
Labels can be used to reference something in your document at a later time. Labels are created by doing
\label{type:name_of_label}Assume we have created a label called fig:example. To reference this label, we type the following, in the document, where we want to reference it
\ref{fig:exmaple}
Referencing using the standard \ref{} can be quite annoying with typing all the figure \ref{label}. With cleveref this is all handled for you! Use the cleveref package to automate this.
\usepackage{cleveref}To reference a figure, table or equation, you can now use \cref{label} which will write fig. 0.0, eq. 0.0 or whatever the type is.
If you wish to change how you're referencing the appendix or anything else, you can do so in your preamble, by using the following command
\crefname{appendix}{Chapter}{Chapters}Where the second parameter is the singular name, and the third parameter is the plural name.
In order to use equations and other mathematical expressions in LaTeX, you must first include the amsmath, amssymb, units and SIUnits packages
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage[amssymb]{SIunits}
\usepackage{units}If you want to spice up your mathematical expressions, you can also include the amsfonts package.
To make an expression, do the following
\begin{equation}
2^4=16
\end{equation}
If you don't want to type in every single formula and equation, you can use the mathpix OCR tool to convert an existing image to valid mathematical expressions formatted for LaTeX.
To use nice looking tables in LaTeX, you must include the tabularx, booktabs and array packages
\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{array}The following example shows how a table might be set up
\begin{table}[H]
\centering
\begin{tabular}{l|c|r}
Paper & 2 ps. & 4,5 DKK \\\hline
Pencils & 3 ps. & 10,8 DKK
\end{tabular}
\caption{Caption}
\label{tab:my_label}
\end{table}
{l|c|r} describes how the text is aligned in the different cells.
l is Left side allignment.
c is center allignment.
r is right side allignment.
Every table entry is seperated by an & sign, and when you need to add a line seperator between the next row of cells, you use \\\hline. If you do not include the \hline your table will not have a line seperator.
