Some LaTeX tips

- Useful commands

• \footnote{} for adding footnotes in text (numbered)
  
• \titlenote{} for adding footnotes to titles, subtitles etc. (*, dagger etc.)
• \bibliographystyle{abbrv} to get short author names in the References
• \bibliography{<.bib file>}
• \fbox{} for enclosing text within a box 
• To get a new line/line break after the paragraph title, use \paragraph{}\<space>\\
• To hyperlink text, use \href{http://my.link.org}{link text} (uses thepackage hyperref)

- About \begin{figure}

• \begin{figure/table}[h] - the [h] will try to force the figure/table to appear at that place in the text
• \epsfig{file=sth.eps, scale=0.25} - quick way to include .eps image.
• Ensure that label comes immediately after caption, i.e. stick to the order: \caption{}\label{}\end{figure} when including figure. [Updated]

- Numbering parts of figures

• Add \usepackage{subfig}
• Put \subfloat[]{ \label{} \epsfig{}} \subfloat{...} ... within \begin{figure} ... \end{figure}

- About table/tabular

• Use \begin{center}\begin{tabular}... if u dont need full-fledged table
• If u have \begin{tabular}{|c|c||c|c|c|}, use \multicolumn{2}{|c||}{text} & \multicolumn{3}{|c|}to merge the first 2 and the next 3 columns.
• Use longtable instead of tabular to allow the table to be split over two pages.
  

- For multiple authors, use this -

\numberofauthors{4}
\author{
auth1 \and auth2 \and auth3 \and auth4 \and \affaddr{institutename}\\
\affaddr{address}\\
\email{\texttt{\{auth1,auth2, auth3, auth4\}@institute.edu}}
}

-To spell check TeX files, use command ispell <.tex file>.