LaTeX Hints

As promised, here some nice LaTeX hints.

1. Fancy Chapter Titles

Check this out:
http://zoonek.free.fr/LaTeX/LaTeX_samples_chapter/0.html

2. Make your Table of Contents, Footnotes, Refs click able

\usepackage[colorlinks,pdfpagelabels,pdfstartview = FitH,bookmarksopen = true,bookmarksnumbered = true,linkcolor = black,plainpages = false,hypertexnames = false,citecolor = black] {hyperref}

Options are pretty self explanatory

3. Make boxes around your text

\usepackage{framed}
\begin{framed}
...
\end{framed}

4. Alphabetic, roman enumeration:

\usepackage{enumerate}
\begin{enumerate}[a.)]
...-> a.), b.) ...

\begin{enumerate}[i.)]
...-> i.), ii.) ...

etc.

5. Fancy header and footer

\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\renewcommand{\sectionmark}[1]{\markboth{\thesection\ #1}{}}
\renewcommand{\subsectionmark}[1]{\markright{\thesubsection\ #1}}
\lhead[ \leftmark ]{\textbf{Diploma thesis}}
\rhead[\textbf{This is my topic}]{\leftmark}
\lfoot[\thepage ]{\scriptsize \textcopyright2009, Wienert, HTW Dresden}
\cfoot[]{}
\rfoot[\scriptsize \textcopyright2009, Wienert, HTW Dresden]{\thepage}

6. Line break inside tables

\usepackage{multirow}

7. Make 1.5 times or 2.0 times (which is equal to Word's 1.5er...) line spacing

\usepackage{setspace}

\doublespacing
\onehalfspacing

8. Syntax highlighting

\usepackage{listings}
\usepackage{color}
\definecolor{darkgreen}{rgb}{0.4,0.8,0.4}
\definecolor{darkred}{rgb}{0.5,0,0}
\definecolor{rosa}{rgb}{0.6,0.1,0.6}
\lstset{
language=java, % choose the language of the code
basicstyle=\footnotesize, % the size of the fonts that are used for the code
numbers=left, % where to put the line-numbers
numberstyle=\footnotesize, % the size of the fonts that are used for the line-numbers
stepnumber=1, % the step between two line-numbers. If it's 1 each line will be numbered
numbersep=5pt, % how far the line-numbers are from the code
backgroundcolor=\color{white},
showspaces=false,
showstringspaces=false,
showtabs=false,
frame=single,
tabsize=4,
captionpos=t,
breaklines=true,
breakatwhitespace=false,
%escapeinside={\%*}{*\%}{//}, % if you want to add a comment within your code
keywordstyle=\color{darkred}\bfseries,
commentstyle=\color{darkgreen},
stringstyle=\color{rosa},
morecomment=[l]{//},
morecomment=[s]{/*}{*/},
morestring=[b]",
morestring=[d]’,
frame=tb
}
\lstset{index={}}
...
\begin{lstlisting}
int i;
i=Integer.parseInt(S);
\end{lstlisting}

check out: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Packages/Listings

9. Better placed limits at math:Sum and math:Integral:

\sum\limits_{i=0}^\infty

For the lazy: \newcommand{\intt}{\int\limits}

10. Letters and applications:

Various letters, prep'd for c&p:
http://www2.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~jaenisch/Latex/index.htm

German-style application: http://www.datenteiler.de/bewerbung-und-lebenslauf-mit-latex/