LaTeX Packages Used in JCW thesis

The following is a list of packages and commands used or tried in my thesis. This page is here to remind me what I've played with.
 
 
LaTeX Package Purpose Notes1
axodraw Feynman diagram drawing package
color To include colour with comands like \textcolor
graphicx LaTeX2e extended graphics package standard
latexsym More symbols - which I could remember which ones! standard?
amssymb American mathematical society symbols - useful!
epsf Not sure if this is still required - is for including eps files - probably redundant now standard
mcite multiple citations - buggy, and and requires hacking bibtex bst file - think will remove all use of it
draft puts a dark line where have overfull boxes, doesn't include figures - just puts a box and name of figure (??), puts keys to all references (??) standard
subfigure LaTeX graphics package to make subfigures - highly recommended standard
makeidx to include indices in LaTeX documents standard
equations Still haven't worked out how to get anything out of this package standard?
fancyhdr fancy headings and footers - not entirely sure how this works either standard
a4 included to get margins right - another fudge-and-fiddle to get it going standard
setspace Excellent package!! - double spacing for text, single for captions, footnotes, tables, etc. standard?
cite makes [1,2,3,4] appear at [1-4]. Highly recommended standard
psfrag replaces PostScript text with nicely formatted PostScript text. \psfrag{old}{new} - use command before \includegraphics standard
My files
newcommands My command abbreviations and shortcuts
hyphenation User-defined hyphenation rules for LaTeX docs
Random commands
\raggedbottom Gets rid of most of the vbox errors
\tolerance=1000 Removes many hbox errors

Notes:
1Standard = comes with standard LaTeX(2e) distribution
 
 
 
 
%\addtolength{\topmargin}{-1.4cm}
%\addtolength{\oddsidemargin} {-0.7cm}
%\addtolength{\evensidemargin}{-3.5cm}
\setlength{\textheight}{23cm}
\setlength{\textwidth}{13.7cm}		 Setup of margins. I've had major problems getting this to look good
\include{twohead}
\newpage		 to insert a file, then a pagebreak
\addtolength{\headheight}{3pt}    % more space for rule header
\fancyhead{}
%\fancyhead[LE]{\sl\leftmark}
%\fancyhead[LO,RE]{\rm\thepage}
%\fancyhead[RO]{\sl\rightmark}
\fancyhead[LE]{\sl\leftmark}
\fancyhead[LO,RE]{\rm\thepage}
\fancyhead[RO]{\sl\rightmark}		 Some/all of this gives the page layout for my thesis which I rather like
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}
   {\protect\numberline{Bibliography\hspace{-96pt}}}
%\bibliographystyle{../jcwstylefiles/mcprsty}
\bibliographystyle{../jcwstylefiles/h-physrev3}
\bibliography{../jcwbibliography/jcw}		 Makes a bibliography and includes it in the table of contents
\printindex more commands to make an index
\documentclass[openright,a4paper,12pt,twoside]{report}
  • openright - all chapters start on a right-hand page
  • a4paper - the continuing struggle to get correct margins
  • 12pt - font size
  • twoside - identifies left- and right-handpages - for fancy-hdr option
  • report - can do chapters and nice two-side options

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