Tips for LaTeX

I summarize the tips for LaTeX usage. Hope these tips can help us to shorten the debug time

LaTeX commands

• To define a new command with multiple parameters

             \newcommand{\myNew}[3]{\mathcal{CN}(#1;#2,#3)}
        

To call the new command, simply put \myNew{x}{0}{\sigma^2}

• Use align instead of eqnarray

• When use the subfigures, label for the master figure must follow caption.

      \begin{figure}
      %\label{fig:master} Doesn't work properly!
       \subfigure[]{figure1}
       \subfigure[]{figure2}
       \caption{the caption}
       \label{fig:master}
       \end{figure}
     

LaTeX Packages

Package hyperref

• It should be loaded after all other packages.

• Package algorithm should be loaded after hyperref.

• hyperref conflicts with cite

  When you load cite before hyperref, the hyperlinks to references can not be generated. When you load cite after hyperref, hyperlinks to references will be generated, but \usepackage[compress]{cite} does not compress the citations as normal.

• work with natbib

  The document of natbib claims that it compatible with hyperref. However, there is a problem. If there is a cross reference in your section title, the bookmark can not display the section title correctly. The solution is to turn on the unicode option for hyperref, i.e., \usepackage[...unicode]{hyperref}