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Krishna Kumar edited this page Dec 11, 2013 · 1 revision

Why is it important to follow good practices and not get killed by a Velociraptor ;)

  • To restrict the length of the figure caption in List of figures use a [short-title] and {longtitle} for the caption or the section:

    `\caption[Caption that you want to appear in TOC]{Actual caption of the figure}`
    `\section[short]{title}`
    
  • To exclude sections from being numbered and disable it from appearing in the Table of Contents use \section*{Section_Name} or \chapter*{Chapter_Name}

  • To only exclude it from being listed in the Table of Contents encapsulate the section command inside the \tochide command. \tochide{\section{Section_Name}} the section will not appear in the Table of Contents, but the section will be numbered.

  • When including figures in your tex file, it's a good practice to size your picture depending on the page size, instead of using absolute values. In the following example 0.75\textwidth refers to picture width being set to 75% of the text width.

    \includegraphics[width=0.75\textwidth]{minion}
    
  • Use a - to separate sort key from the prefixes, eg., g-pi dentes the Greek symbol pi.

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