Useful pacakges for latex
Convert table from excel to latex- Excel2LaTeX
Uploading you tex to ArXiv - arxiv-latex-cleaner -
This tool allows you to easily clean the LaTeX code of your paper to submit to arXiv. From a folder containing all your code, e.g. /path/to/latex/, it creates a new folder /path/to/latex_arXiv/, that is ready to ZIP and upload to arXiv.
Finding difference between two latex file- difflatex
$> latexdiff InputTexFile1.tex InputTexFile2.tex > OutputTexDifferece.texIndenting the latex code- latexindent
Converting your document to docx - pandoc
$> pandoc InputTexFileName.tex --bibliography=BibliographyFileName.bib -o OutPutFileName.docxcreate booklet from pdf- pdfbook
Crop the pdf - pdfcrop
Check for non utf8 character in file
The tex supported pacakges list
A very good list of packages to be included is in IEEE template for papers see bare_jrnl_transmag.tex.
Tex editors TeXmacs
The lineno package has a problem due to which the paragraph next to equation has to be seaprated by a blank line otherwise the line number for that paragraph will not appear. It can be solved by using following code in preamble. The solution is copied from Tex-Stackexchange.
\newcommand*\patchAmsMathEnvironmentForLineno[1]{
\expandafter\let\csname old#1\expandafter\endcsname\csname #1\endcsname
\expandafter\let\csname oldend#1\expandafter\endcsname\csname end#1\endcsname
\renewenvironment{#1}
{\linenomath\csname old#1\endcsname}
{\csname oldend#1\endcsname\endlinenomath}}
\newcommand*\patchBothAmsMathEnvironmentsForLineno[1]{
\patchAmsMathEnvironmentForLineno{#1}
\patchAmsMathEnvironmentForLineno{#1*}}
\AtBeginDocument{
\patchBothAmsMathEnvironmentsForLineno{equation}
\patchBothAmsMathEnvironmentsForLineno{align}
\patchBothAmsMathEnvironmentsForLineno{flalign}
\patchBothAmsMathEnvironmentsForLineno{alignat}
\patchBothAmsMathEnvironmentsForLineno{gather}
\patchBothAmsMathEnvironmentsForLineno{multline}
}