LaTeX useful tools and sniplets

Section without numbering - Bibliography, Appendix

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\section*{Your section title}

Todo notes

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\usepackage[colorinlistoftodos]{todonotes}
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\todo[inline,red]{comment}

Indent size (atkāpe no paragrāfa)

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\setlength\parindent{1cm}

References ar custom text

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\usepackage{hyperref}
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\hyperref[sec:paper_3]{Appendix C}

https://leesjohn.wordpress.com/2013/03/14/using-custom-text-when-using-ref-in-latex/comment-page-1/

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Draw charts directly in LaTeX

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\begin{tikzpicture}
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\draw[thick, ->] (-5,0) -- (5,0) node[anchor=north west] {x};
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\draw[thick, ->] (0,-2) -- (0,5) node[anchor=south east] {y};
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\draw[red] (-4,-1) -- (2,3);
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\draw[black] (-3,0) node[above]{$x_0$};
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\draw[black] (0,2) node[above right]{$y_0$};
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\draw[black] (2,3) node[below right]{$y = f(x)$}
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\end{tikzpicture}

Lock position of table in specific paragraph using [H] - hold modifier. Can do same also for images / figures

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\begin{table}[H]
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  \centering
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  \caption{Add caption}
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  \Tiny % make text small if necessary
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Split tables over multiple pages and turn landscape pages if necessary

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\usepackage{longtable}
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\usepackage{tabularx}
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\usepackage{lscape}
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\begin{landscape}
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\end{landscape}

Tool for latex equtions understanding: https://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html

Tool for references: https://www.zotero.org

Together with https://github.com/retorquere/zotero-better-bibtex/releases

Excel export tables with style to latex macros (add-ins) https://ctan.org/pkg/excel2latex?lang=en

Turn page landscape

\begin{landscape}

csvautotabular formatting https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/292512/csvsimple-csvautotabular-and-csvautobooktabular-with-centered-columns-content