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General L a T e X tips and tricks

Introduction

This page lists a number of general LaTeX tips and tricks that I learned while working on my PhD thesis. I have written the entries in a Question-and-Answer format, but cannot rightly call them FAQs . After all, these questions were not asked frequently, but just the once — by me.

Also, in contrast to many real FAQ pages and documents, my answers make absolutely no pretence at completeness or even general applicability. All that these tips and recommendations describe is what worked for me in my setup. It would be nice if it worked for others as well, but I have taken no special steps to guarantee or investigate that.

It is also quite possible — likely, even — that my questions have other, perhaps better solutions and answers that I was simply not aware of, or that I knew about but somehow never chose to pursue or use.

The Questions