LaTeX Quick Reference

Documentation

• teTeX installations include a guide to the TeX installation in the file texmf/doc/index.html.
• An excellent introdutory book available online is The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX 2e (the file lshort.pdf).
• The AMS-LaTeX homepage has documentation for the various AMS packages, with the most important being the amsmath documentation.
• Ghostscript can do many complex things to PS and PDF files. Documentation is available at the ghostscript homepage.
• NIST has a good summary of the rules for typesetting quantities with units, as well as a summary of the use of typefaces for mathematical symbols.

Templates

• paper.tar.gz - Journal article or other paper.
• poster.tar.gz - A poster with multiple columns (using flowfram).
• slides.tar.gz - Slides for giving a talk (using beamer).

Miscellaneous Tips

• Never use eqnarray. Instead use align and other grouping environments from amsmath.
• To produce bold italic math symbols use \boldsymbol from the amsmath package.
• An upright μ can be produced with \upmu using the upgreek package.
• Dimensionless quantities like the Reynolds number and Knudsen number should be typeset with \mathit{Re} and \mathit{Kn} as they are single words, not the separate variables R and e or K and n.
• To join/concatenate two PDF files into a single file, use the ghostscript command

        gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=joined.pdf file1.pdf file2.pdf