Recently I need to submit to a journal that does NOT accept the final PDF but requires all LaTex sources so that they can compile the PDF on their own. Given that any LaTex projects with reasonable size would have multiple *.tex, *.bib and figure files. It'll be nice to flatten the LaTex project so that we have as few as files to upload. Here is how.

Sometimes it's annoying to have a "Figure" prefix when you add caption to a figure in beamer. Here is a way of how to eliminate that.

It's stylish to place an low-profile yet charming logo in some corner of your slides. Here we use the pgf package to accomplish this.

Honestly, I never clicked the navigation bar in beamer slides, and I really wondered whether anyone has used it or not. I suspect that most people keep it just to show the pride that he's using beamer...

We can use the graphicx package together with the graphicspath command to specify the looking up path for pictures. A typical structure may look like this:

Use the following command to install sty files, say multirow.sty, using yum:

$sudo yum -y install 'tex(multirow.sty)'

In latex, the caption of figure or table is aligned left by default. Sometimes, it's not that beautiful, especially when your article is two column.

You may often find a table or figure is too big to fit into one column when your article has two columns. Use this to insert a figure (same with table) and it will save you:

From time to time, you may want to compose your own sty files to eliminate long header in your tex file. But it's boring to put you sty file in the same directory of your tex file every time since you really want your sty file to be common, i.e., can be accessed everywhere in your system.