some LaTeX tips: drafts, links, margins, pdflatex

hyperref quick reference list :

\href{URL}{text }
\url{URL}
\nolinkurl{URL}

to adjust margins, use

\usepackage[margin=2.5cm]{geometry}

then play around with the 2.5cm value until it fits.

tips for fitting your text in the required size : LaTeX Tips n Tricks for Conference Paper

If you give LaTeX \cite{fred,joe,harry,min}, its default commands could give something like "[2,6,4,3]"; this looks awful. One can of course get the things in order by rearranging the keys in the \cite command, but who wants to do that sort of thing for no more improvement than "[2,3,4,6]"

• The cite package sorts the numbers and detects consecutive sequences, so creating "[2-4,6]". The natbib package, with the numbers and sort&compress options, will do the same when working with its own numeric bibliography styles (plainnat.bst and unsrtnat.bst).

• If you might need to make hyperreferences to your citations, cite isn't adequate. If you add the hypernat package:

  \usepackage[...]{hyperref}
  \usepackage[numbers,sort&compress]{natbib}
  \usepackage{hypernat}
  ...
  \bibliographystyle{plainnat}

  See for example http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=citesort

“LaTeX and Subversion”

• set a keyword with ``svn propset svn:keywords "Id" index.tex `` so that every occurrence of

  System Message: WARNING/2 (<string>, line 70); backlink

  Inline literal start-string without end-string.

• use latex-svninfo http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/svninfo/ for instance with

  \usepackage[fancyhdr,today,draft]{svninfo}%
  %\usepackage[fancyhdr]{svninfo}%
  \pagestyle{fancyplain}
  \fancyhead{}

• now at every commit $Id$ will be replaced by useful data that will show up in the foot of the page

• for a reference on using keywords see http://wiki.loria.fr/wiki/Variables_automatiques

but... sites like arXiV use only plain LaTeX so that you should keep the 2 versions of your directives for better portability (see \ifpdf ...)

• in particular arXiV rejects the microtype package

le package hyperref permet même de faire des références vers les différents chapitres.

PDfLaTeX ne permet pas d'inclure des eps pour cela il faut les convertir en pdf avec epstopdf ou le script suivant qui permet de convertir tous les .eps d'un dossier (à sauver et rendre executable):

for f in $* ;do
    if echo "$f" | grep -i eps*   ; then
         epstopdf --nocompress $f
         echo "converting  $f to pdf ..."
    else
    echo "$f is not a eps file, ignored"
    fi
done

il suffit alors d'executer en console `` ./mon_script la-ou-ya-tout-mes-eps/*.eps ``