tricks.tex

tricks



\renewcommand{\thefigure}{0.x\arabic{figure}}
\addtocounter{figure}{4}
\begin{figure}[htbp]
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[scale=0.5]{results2}
\caption[Flower type and percent specialization]{\footnotesize{Interaction bar plot showing the degree of specialization for each flower type.}
\label{barplot}
\end{center}
\end{figure}



Redefining the label used in captions.
Do you want "Fig. 1" instead of "Figure 1" in all the captions? This is easy, just use

\renewcommand{\figurename}{Fig.}

For tables, redefine \tablename.




http://web.reed.edu/cis/help/latex/

http://www.kronto.org/thesis/tips/index.html

http://john.regehr.org/latex/

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Page_Layout

http://help-csli.stanford.edu/tex/suthesis/

http://hstuart.dk/category/latex/

http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/textprocessing/teTeX/latex/latex2e-html/ltx-2.html

http://ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/info/Free_Math_Font_Survey/survey.html

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rf10/pstex/latexcommands.htm

http://www-solar.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~robertc/latex/Latex.html

multiple bibliographis
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=multbib

command defnition
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming:TeX_\global

nice thesis setup
http://www.geocities.com/kijoo2000/

font help
http://stud3.tuwien.ac.at/~e9825610/LaTeXmath.html 

latex symbols
http://home.online.no/~pjacklam/latex/index.html