The document provides a quick reference for common LaTeX commands for formatting text, inserting figures, tables and equations, managing bibliographies and citations, and includes summaries of basic document structure, environments like lists, quotes, and theorems as well as tips for fonts, references, comments and preamble packages. It covers both inline and display math notation and equation formatting and arrays and includes shortcuts for many standard symbols.

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Verbatim can use multiple file types – eps, pdf, jpg,
Basic Commands begin{verbatim} png
... same rules for referencing and positioning
Notes end{verbatim}
= line break as table environment
use for typesetting code
bigskip, medskip, smallskip to increase use verb+stuff here+ for inline verbatim Footnote
size of line break environment (any delimiter works) Normal textfootnote{Contents}.
hangindent=.5in before a paragraph forces thanks{text} can be used to insert
a hanging indent Verse attribution footnote with * at beginning
% = comment begin{verse}
run LaTeX twice if any references, First line Theorem
Second line newthoerem{name}[counter]{text}
citations or tables of contents are used. [section]
end{verse}
Preamble lines have hanging indents begin{name}{text}
usepackage[margin=1in]{geometry} for ...
tree-saving margins Quote end{name}
begin{quote} “text” is what gets printed, “name” is the
usepackage{setspace} doublespacing for ...
double-spaced documents reference
end{quote} Use newtheorem*{…} for unnumbered
Document template Table Precede newtheorem with
documentclass{article} begin{table}[htbp] theoremstyle{plain, remark, …}
usepackage[options]{packagename begin{center} Requires usepackage{amsthm}
} begin{tabular}{ccc}
author{Name} 0 & 0 & 0 Math
title{Title} 0 & 0 & 0
date{Date} end{tabular} Inline formula
begin{document} caption{default} $x+y$
maketitle end{center}
... Display formulas
label{defaulttable} [x+y]
end{document} end{table}
Document structure multicolumn{3}{c}{Column Header} Equation environment
section{Name} begin{tabular}{|llr|} to put vertical lines begin{equation}
subsection{Name} on either side and to make the first x=y
label{whatever}
subsubsection{Name} columns left-aligned and the thirds right-
paragraph{Name} end{equation}
aligned
subparagraph{Name} use hline to make a horizontal line Equation array environment
section*{Name} suppresses numbering [htbp] specifies position preferences – h: begin{eqnarray}
tableofcontents generates the TOC here; t:top; b:bottom; p: special page for a&=&b+c
just float objects – in order specified d&=&e+f
Font styles label{whatever}
bold: textbf{stuff} use ref{defaulttable} to reference the table
use p{2in} to create a paragraph columns end{eqnarray}
italic: emph{stuff} aligns equations at = signs
typewriter: texttt{stuff} use [3pt] to adjust spacing between rows
nonumber suppresses number on specified
Cite Longtable line
cite{cite-key} begin{longtable}{lrr}
caption{text} Key mathematical symbols
works with BibTeX and thebibliography superscript: x^2; subscript: x_2
1 & 2
Quick bibliography endhead fraction: frac{x}{y} = x/y
begin{thebibliography}{99} 3 & 4 Greek letters: alpha, beta, gamma, etc.
bibitem{cite-key} Citation. label{text} decorations: hat{x}, bar{x}, tilde{x},
end{thebibliography} end{longtable} vec{a}. dot{a}, stackrel{a}{b} puts a
Use for multipage tables over b
BibTeX bibliography Requires usepackage{longtable}
bibliographystyle{plain} rightarrow, leftarrow, Rightarrow
bibliography{database} Automatically centered and positioned (double arrow), Leftrightarrow
database is a .bib file stored externally Text before endhead is repeated across leq less than or equal to, geq
plain, unsrt, abbrev are default pagebreaks fences: left(, right), left[, etc.
bibliography styles Graphics Matrix
begin{figure}[htbp] left[begin{array}{ccc}
Environments begin{center} a&b&c
includegraphics{Graphic.pdf} d&e&f
Lists caption{example caption}
begin{itemize} end{array}right]
label{fig:example}
item Thing
end{center}
end{itemize}
end{figure}
produces a bulleted list requires graphicx package
use begin{enumerate} for a numbered list