A "best practice" is a technique or approach that TeXnicians recognize as giving better results than other approaches.
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The use of enumerated options [closed]
I am not sure what would be the best-practice approach to type setting an observation that has an enumerate list.
For instance, consider:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{enumitem}
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How to keep tables readable in code
What is the best practice for creating and updating tables in Latex? I am using Texmaker but I find it hard to update a table like adding entries or adding a column. I have to count entries which is ...
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Good general LaTeX style practice
I just created my first document in LaTeX (a resume) and while I'm familiar with good practices in programming, I'm not familiar with what constitutes good practices in a markup language like LaTeX. ...
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What is good practice when preparing a book for printing?
I'm writing my thesis using Latex and nearing its completion I'm beginning to worry about the quality of the hardcopy. I'm curious about what should be taken into consideration when preparing a ...
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When to use a regular .initial key or a .store in key?
The excellent pgfkeys package provides, among others, two kinds of keys: regular "value-centric" keys that can be declared with /.initial, and "macro-centric" keys are declared with /.store in. Here ...
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Select colors to avoid dithering when printing document
I have some listings and some portions of text, that need (or at least i want them to have) a colored background. At the moment i'm using blue!5, which gives a nice color on the screen, but has the ...
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lots of overfull boxes in a custom subsection navigation with multicols
I hope this is not too localized...
I need a vertical subsection navigation where the subsection names only consists in numbers (1, 2, 3, etc.) printed in a three columns layout.
I managed to obtain ...
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What should be the right width of an image for each document-classes?
I would like to print good images in A4 document (300 or 600 dpi). Using an external software,I have to merge differents big images to create a bigger one so I have to resize it with the same software ...
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What practices are there regarding the use or avoidance of “internal” TeX or LaTeX commands?
What practices are there regarding the use or avoidance of "internal" TeX or LaTeX commands? (About "command" vs "macro", there is some discussion in this TeX.SX answer, though I don't know whether ...
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What are the generally accepted guidelines for adjusting \linespread to avoid extra spreading from inline math?
General Background
I am just starting to think about typesetting and LaTeX in anything close to a serious manner, and am getting lots of questions that perhaps are appropriate for this site, but ...
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How to manage a central bibtex file which plays nice with (TexMaker's) auto-complete?
I want to keep a single central bibtex file that is shared across all my machines. My approach has been to set up a local tex-tree in a dropbox folder, and just store the file there.
So far this has ...
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Using a negative space \! to differentiate between functions and products
In Physics, I often have functions like f(x), but also multiplications like y(-x). I would like my math to be easy to understand, so I am looking for a way to suggest function calls and ...
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Best practice regarding graphics size
Whenever I make graphs from R to be included in Latex, I find myself scuttling back and forth between R to specify the size of the output and Latex to play with the \includegraphics[scale=??].
It ...
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What are the best practices for programmatic interaction between LaTeX3 and LaTeX2e?
I'm thoroughly enjoying using LaTeX3 for programming my LaTeX stuff and the more I use it, the easier it gets and the more I shudder at returning to LaTeX2e or even pure TeX! But every now and again ...
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Compound fractions (i.e., “mixed numbers”) look bad in displaystyle
I find that in display mode, fractions that represent simple rational numbers look way too big. For instance, consider this case:
$$ a = \frac12(b+c) $$
The fraction gets inordinately large ...
