| category | problem | solution |
|---|---|---|
| document | remove page numbers from a document | Put \pagestyle{empty} in the preamble. |
| font | bold face | Use {\bf xxxx} |
| get graphic from pdf | how to cut a figure from a pdf and make a ps, eps, pdf etc. | In acrobat, go to tools - select and zoom - snapshot Select the figure, it automatically copies to the clipboard. Close acrobat - open Photoshop and select file - open from clipboard - then just save it in the format you want. |
| MetaPost | How do i draw a venn diagram | http://www.stat.cmu.edu/~hseltman/LatexTips.html#DrawMeta |
| misc. | to put x number of slides on one page: | psnup -4 -r foo.ps > foo2.ps ^ or -2 (the -r put the pages in reverse order) |
| table of contents | remove dotted lines in X entries - where X is section/subsection/subsubsection, etc. | \usepackage{tocloft} \renewcommand{\cftXdotsep}{\cftnodots} X = chap, sec, subsec, subsubsec |