Useful Latex Tricks Links

Whilst doing various weird and wonderful things in Latex2e I have spent a significant number of hours trying to find out how to do many of these. The below links have been invaluable: I hope you find them as useful!

General Latex

The Not So Short Introduction to Latex2e
Tim Love's pages at CUED, particularly simple macros
Latex Command Summary (Netherlands Tex Group)
Robin Fairbairn's pages on fonts
How to install a package
Comprehensive help on creating a table of contents
To change the way your captions appear, use the Caption package
Tables in IEEE proceedings-style papers: if you want your table to span both columns, use a \begin{table*} environment, which surrounds a \begin{tabular} environment. If you end up with the table on the last page of the document with no other text, try changing the positioning to [th!] rather than just [h!]. Bizarrely this seems to work wonders.
How to get commas to not have too much space after them when used as thousands separators in numbers

Graphics etc.

Other Tips Pages

Error Messages

LaTeX Error: Not in outer par mode

Poster Tips

Use psnup -f my_poster_from_dvips.ps poster_in_proper_landscape.ps if you have a landscape poster that you wish to print on A0. If you don't, you may well get an A1 version printed in the middle of an approximately sized A0 sheet (!).