Latex Tips

For Beginners

• LatexStyleGuideline: Latex style guideline

For Advanced Users

Change margins

\addtolength{\oddsidemargin}{-.875in}
\addtolength{\evensidemargin}{-.875in}
\addtolength{\textwidth}{1.75in}

\addtolength{\topmargin}{-.875in}
\addtolength{\textheight}{1.75in}

Last page column equalization

The best method, which is also recommended by Michael Shell, is to use this:

\enlargethispage{-X.Yin}

somewhere at the top of the first column of the last page. The last page gets effectively shortened by the “X.Yin” amount.

Embed fonts in a PDF with pdflatex

pdf2ps doc.pdf

ps2pdf13 -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress doc.ps doc2.pdf

via http://thomer.com/howtos/embed_font_in_pdf.html