Latex Toolbox

Useful Latex macros / setup for grad students derived from my masters thesis.

The choice of packages and macros included/recommended by this repo has one goal in mind:

Make writing a large LaTex document as simple and configurable as possible while producing a beautiful looking document.

Whats included

Additional documentation found in each file

Selectively Compile Directory

Minimal Working Example of the selective compile setup I used in my MS thesis

algorithmUtil.sty

Macros and setup I found to be useful when typesetting algorithms

• for each loop
• macros for typesetting pseudo code

Package options

• topSpace: length unit string indicating how much space to use for \algoTopSpace macro
• disable: boolean flag to indicating that the space added by the \algoTopSpace macro should not be applied. \algoTopSpace macro still exists but does not add space
• smallerText: boolean flag indicating the font size of the algorithmic environment should be \footnotesize

generalUtil.sty

Small collection of useful macros I have written for

• Better justification of \texttt
• Bold blue, brown, red, text
• An edit footnote that is number separately and has a different symbol
• Macro to tighten up the spacing between list environment items

graphicsUtil.sty

Collection of useful macros that wrap \includegraphics

• Graphics manipulation while keeping the graphics aspect ratio
• Macros combining \centering and \ContinuedFloat
• Macros for adding additional padding to space about figure environments

Optional package options

• topSpace: length unit string indicating how much space to use for \figureTopSpace macro
• doubleTopSpace: length unit string indicating how much (2x) space to use for \figureTopDoubleSpace macro
• disable: boolean flag to indicating that the space added by the \figureTopSpace and \figureTopDoubleSpace macros should not be applied. Macro still exists but do not add space

mintedUtil.sty

Collection of useful macros for the minted package

• Reduce space after minted environments but before \caption
• Macros for minting: HTML, JS, CSS, Java, Python, HTTP, Bash, JSON
• Macros for inline minting: HTML, JS, CSS

tableUtil.sty

• Macro for per table changes to \arraystretch
• Macros for adding space above a table

Optional package options

• topSpace: length unit string indicating how much space to use for \tableTopSpace macro
• doubleTopSpace: length unit string indicating how much (2x) space to use for \tableTopDoubleSpace macro
• disable: boolean flag to indicating that the space added by the \tableTopSpace and \tableTopDoubleSpace macros should not be applied. Macro still exists but do not add space

urlUtil.sty

• Adjusts biburllcpenalty and biburlucpenalty to ensure URLs do not escape margins
• Adds additional URL breaks used when the breaklinks option is used with the hyperref package
• Macro to include non-hyperlinked URLs in text that break (line wrap) easily
• Macro to add a hyperlinked URL as a footnote

recommendedPackages.sty

Opinionated package recommendation (in proper load order) featuring:

• Typography improvements
• Math mode / symbol improvements
• Source code syntax highlighting
• Easy quotes
• Improved bibliography management
• Algorithm typesetting
• Easy captioning and subfigures
• Pretty tables
• Simple referencing and URL handling

IEETransactionsNetworkingJournalModel.sty

Old Dominion University requires a journal model to be followed for citation, figure/table caption styling.

This style file will configure your latex document, in combination with the oduwsdl/wsdlthesis document class, to conform to the IEE Transactions Networking journal style.