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latex [2016/01/20 11:37] awflatex [2018/04/25 10:34] – [Misc stuff to paste in the top] awf
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 ====== Things I do in LaTeX which may need justifying to co-authors ====== ====== Things I do in LaTeX which may need justifying to co-authors ======
  
 +
 +Quick things: 
 +  * In a hand-marked-up PDF, a tilde at the end of a line indicates a "tie", to keep characters bound to the word that precedes them, see https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/9633/why-should-i-put-a-before-ref-or-cite
 +  * It is useful for version control to issue a soft newline after each full stop. 
 ====== All one file ====== ====== All one file ======
  
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   - If you want to globally search and replace it's much easier to do so in a single file.   Yes, of course you should have had the notation right before you started.   But you didn't.   - If you want to globally search and replace it's much easier to do so in a single file.   Yes, of course you should have had the notation right before you started.   But you didn't.
   - If you really think compilation is too slow without ''\includeonly'', try ''texify --quiet'' first.   - If you really think compilation is too slow without ''\includeonly'', try ''texify --quiet'' first.
 +  - Now, of course it's not a good idea to copy/paste large figures into the main file, but one small tweak makes it much easier to find figure labels etc. Put the graphical content into figs/mybigfig.tex, but put caption and label in the main file:  <code>
 +\begin{figure}
 +\input{figs/mybigfig.tex}
 +\caption{lots of lovely plots, all lovingly tikzed (pron TIK-zeed)}
 +\label{fig:tikz-virtuosity}
 +\end{figure}</code>
  
 ====== Inline macro definitions ====== ====== Inline macro definitions ======
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 ====== Misc stuff to paste in the top ====== ====== Misc stuff to paste in the top ======
 <code> <code>
 +%!TEX root = ../paper.tex
 +% -*- compile-command: "texify --pdf -V --quiet main.tex" -*-
 +
 % Silence includegraphics % Silence includegraphics
 \setkeys{Gin}{quiet=true} \setkeys{Gin}{quiet=true}
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 </code> </code>
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 +And see http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~aty/bibliog/latex/floats.html
 +
 +<code>
 +% Twocolumn marginpar, e.g. for CVPR/ICCV
 +\newcommand\authornote[2]{\textcolor{blue}{\hspace{-1pt}\rule{2pt}{2ex}\hspace{-1pt}}%
 +\marginpar[~\hspace{-12mm}\parbox{16mm}{\tiny \textcolor{blue}{#1:#2}}]%
 +{~\hspace{-4mm}~\parbox[t]{20mm}{\tiny \textcolor{blue}{#1: #2}}}}
 +</code>
 +
 +<code>
 +\def\awf#1{\textcolor{red}{\!\scriptsize $^\bullet\!$}%
 +\marginpar{\hspace{-4mm}\parbox[b]{1cm}%
 +{\rotatebox{90}{\parbox{5cm}{\textcolor{red}{\scriptsize $\bullet$ #1}}}}}%
 +}
 +</code>
 +
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