LaTeX Tips

General Issues

Font size issue (top)

Sometimes there is a problem using LaTeX to create first a .ps document and then a .pdf document where the font size shrinks. This was found to be caused by an A1 paper setting in the dvips command which causes this behavior. Use dvips -t letter <filename> to resolve.

BibTex author entries (top)

{ firstname lastname and firstname lastname ... } To cause the correct placement of "et al" use and others in the author entry.

Escape italics in Definition (top)

If you are using an environment such as "definition" or "theorem" and you want to escape the italics formatting use: \textnormal{my text} . Within a math environment you can also use \mbox{} .