Common Bugs in Writing

Here, I’ll post a few links which discuss about the common mistakes while writing a paper.

• Common Bugs in Writing
• Editorial Rules

Margin Issue in Latex

Today, while submitting my work in TENCON through edas.info, I faced an issue with the bottom margin.

Edas complained that the 3rd page has only 0.92 inch bottom margin where the minimum requirement was 1 inch.

I tried many things ……and wasted my time.

Then I found that TENCON asked for A4 paper and by default ieeetran gives LETTER format.

I simply changed \documentclass[conference]{IEEEtran} to \documentclass[a4paper,conference]{IEEEtran}, and the problem was solved!

Embedding All Fonts in PDF file

When we submit/send a pdf file, it is a good idea to embedd all fonts used, in the pdf file.

To embed all fonts in your pdf file use this command in terminal and create the pdf file from ps file.

ps2pdf -dEmbedAllFonts=true -dSubsetFonts=true -dEPSCrop=true -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress FILENAME.ps

This will create a pdf file with name FILENAME.pdf

Installing latex extras

 may often require packeges like multirow.

many packges are not included by default in texlive.

To install the extra packages use the following command

sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-extra

Nice tables using Latex

Here, we’ll show how to improve the default appearance of a table in .

The following commands will produce the default style table in . (Refer Table I)

\begin{table}[htbp]
\caption{Default Table}
\label{Tab:SRNRValues}
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|c|}
\hline
\multirow{2}{1.5cm}{Method}& \multicolumn{3}{p{5cm}|}{\centering Measurements} \\
\cline{2-4} & \multicolumn{1}{c|}{Clean} & \multicolumn{1}{c|}{SMNR=15 dB} & \multicolumn{1}{c|}{SMNR = 10 dB} \\ \hline
Type1 & 27.54 & 13.23 & 6.80 \\
Type2 & 29.55 & 9.61 & 6 \\
Type3 & 25.99 & 11.49 & 6.15 \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\end{table}

* The following modifications will make the table look more attractive. (Refer Table II).

You need to include additional packages using commands

\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage{bigstrut}

\renewcommand{\multirowsetup}{\centering} %to align center inside the table
\setlength{\tabcolsep}{10pt}
\begin{table}[htbp]
\caption{A Nice Table}
\label{Tab:SRNRValues}
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|c|}
\hline
\multirow{2}{1.5cm}{Method}& \multicolumn{3}{p{5cm}|}{\centering Measurements} \bigstrut \\
\cline{2-4} & \multicolumn{1}{c|}{Clean} & \multicolumn{1}{c|}{SMNR=15 dB} & \multicolumn{1}{c|}{SMNR = 10 dB} \bigstrut \\ \hline
Type1 & 27.54 & 13.23 & 6.80 \bigstrut \\
Type2 & 29.55 & 9.61 & 6 \bigstrut \\
Type3 & 25.99 & 11.49 & 6.15 \bigstrut \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\end{table}

Latex Symbols in Matlab figure on Ubuntu

By default, Matlab figure inUbuntu (I’ve faced this problem in 10.04, 10.10, 11.04, and 11.10) is unable to interpret the latex symbols.

Matlab figure also shows problems with fonts installed.

We can correct it by installing packages using the command in terminal:

sudo apt-get install xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi

Bibliography in Beamer (Latex Presentation)

Beamer put an icon before every bibliography item listed, by default.

The following code does this job.

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\begin{frame}[allowframebreaks] %allow to expand references to multiple frames (slides)

\frametitle{References}

\scriptsize{\bibliographystyle{acm}}

\bibliography{references} %bibtex file name without .bib extension

\end{frame}

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We will get the normal bibliography style (number or text instead of icon) by including the following code in the preamble of the document.

(Before \begin{document})

\setbeamertemplate{bibliography item}[text]

 

Ref: http://ininweb.uprm.edu/nambiar/latex/Latex-Tips005.html

 

Spellcheck with Kile

We often need to run spell-check in Kile. Unfortunately, current version of Kile (2.1.0) does not ignore all latex commands and it is a pain to do spell-check with Kile.

An easy way to do this is to use ‘aspell’. Run the following in command line (terminal)

aspell -c yourFile.tex

Front-end for BibTex

JabRef is a good front-end application for BibTex using which you can manipulate your BibTex file easily.