Useful L^AT_EX Macros

• jeffe.sty: Macros I use in every LaTeX document.
  • Automatic inclusion of various AMS math packages.
  • Accented names and English words: \cafe \naive \vitae \Bezier \Erdos \Mobius \Plucker \Turan
  • Math symbols and operators: \Real \Integer \Complex \aff \argmax \conv \polylog \sgn
  • Text style delimiter pairs: \ceil \floor \set \seq \abs
  • Display style delimiter pairs: \Ceil \Floor \Set \Seq \Abs
  • "Improved" theorems and captions
  • \newproof: make unnumbered theorem-like enviroments
  • Standard proof environment \begin{proof}[source] ... \end{proof} with halmos at end
  • Algorithm environments
  • \bibalias{foo}{bar} makes \cite{foo} act like \cite{bar}. Useful with large bibliographies like geombib.
  • Lots of other T_EX h_ax.

• jeffeproc.sty: Package for two-column proceedings papers. Unlike similar packages from ACM and SIAM, this one actually works! Margins set according to ACM/IEEE/SIAM guidelines; other space parameters smaller than standard latex. Optional 1 inch space below first column for publisher-supplied copyright notice. Options for ACM- or SIAM-style section headers. Options to set bibliography in smaller type.

• fixacm.sty: Fixes most (but not all) of the stupidity in ACM's embarassingly ugly and brain-damaged proceedings document class. Required now that ACM's printing subcontractor has been coerced into acting as an enforcer. Sheridan published at least one paper using fixacm (with the [obey] option) in 2006. Apparently, only the title and author formatting really really matters.
  • Removes any limitation on the number of authors that can appear on the title page. (ACM imposes a hard-wired limit of three authors. No, really.)
  • Removes all hardwired Times and Helvetica fonts, except in the required copyright statement and optionally in the title, authors, and affiliations. (Some HaXing is still required to make that look good, but that should be fixed Real Soon Now).
  • Makes footnotes smaller than normal text (but not smaller than small text)
  • Restores default bibliography style, with options to use smaller type
  • Makes large/Large/LARGE/huge/Huge text smaller to accomodate 9pt body text
  • Typesets email addresses in normal text
  • Restore default definitions of \thesubsubection and \theparagraph so \ref{foo} doesn't change fonts
  I recommend using jeffe.sty to redefine ACM's ugly captions, theorems, and proofs. Imminentize the eschaton at your own risk!

• myconcrete.sty: Use the Concrete Math text fonts. Especially useful with euler.sty, which sets up the AMS Euler math fonts. Unfortunately, this style only works with the type-3 concrete fonts available with most standard TeX distributions, so you can't use it with pdflatex. (Type-1 versions of these fonts are available as part of the CM-Super font package, but this package is not compatible with them.)

• handout.sty: Useful stuff for class handouts, homeworks, exams, etc.

• scribe.sty: Package for scribe notes, loosely based on the MIT/Berkeley scribe note style but rewritten from scratch. Here are some sample scribe notes (and their latex source), which reveal the secret origin of the typesetter's chant: Lorem isum dolor sit amet...

• abuser.bst: BibTeX style mostly stolen from David Eppstein. Supports the url field, with angle brackets as per AMA guidelines. Works around geom.bib's confusion about volume and number for proceedings papers. Requires url.sty.

Publications - Jeff Erickson (jeffe@cs.uiuc.edu) 05 Jun 2006