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Templates

% PDFLATEX
\documentclass[12pt, oneside]{article}

% FAST COMPILATION
% \pdfcompresslevel=0
% \pdfobjcompresslevel=0

% LAYOUT
\usepackage{geometry}
\geometry{
    margin=1in,
    a4paper
}

% PAGESTYLE
% \usepackage{fancyhdr, lastpage}
% \pagestyle{fancy}
% \fancyhf{}
% \lhead{\small\sffamily <title>}
% \rhead{\small
%    \sffamily
%    Page \thepage\ of \pageref*{LastPage}
%}

% FONT
%\usepackage{fourier}
%\usepackage{mathptmx}
\usepackage{lmodern}

% COLOR
\usepackage{xcolor}
\definecolor{codegreen}{rgb}{0,0.6,0}
\definecolor{codegray}{rgb}{0.5,0.5,0.5}
\definecolor{codepurple}{rgb}{0.58,0,0.82}
\definecolor{backcolour}{rgb}{0.95,0.95,0.92}

% HYPERREF
\usepackage[bookmarksnumbered, hidelinks]{hyperref}
\usepackage{url}

% TOC_COLOR
% \usepackage{xcolor}
% \colorlet{RED}{black} % don't color running headers
% \colorlet{BLUE}{black}
% \usepackage[titles]{tocloft}
% \renewcommand{\cftchapfont}{\bfseries\color{blue}}
% \renewcommand{\cftchappagefont}{\bfseries\color{blue}}

% TITLE_LINK
\usepackage[explicit]{titlesec}
% https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/32495/linking-the-section-text-to-the-toc#:~:text=It%20links%20back%20to%20the%20toc%20by%20setting,can%20easily%20copy%20this%20approach%20for%20chapters%20etc.
% chapter
% \titleformat{\chapter}[display]
%   {\normalfont\huge\bfseries}{\chaptertitlename\ {\fontfamily{cmr}\selectfont\thechapter}}{20pt}{\hyperlink{chap-\thechapter}{\Huge#1}\addtocontents{toc}{\protect\hypertarget{chap-\thechapter}{}}}
% chapter*
%   \titleformat{name=\chapter,numberless}
%   {\normalfont\huge\bfseries}{}{-20pt}{\Huge#1}
% section
\titleformat{\section}
  {\normalfont\Large\bfseries}{\thesection}{1em}{\hyperlink{sec-\thesection}{#1}\addtocontents{toc}{\protect\hypertarget{sec-\thesection}{}}}
% section*
\titleformat{name=\section,numberless}
  {\normalfont\Large\bfseries}{}{0pt}{#1}
% subsection
\titleformat{\subsection}
  {\normalfont\large\bfseries}{\thesubsection}{1em}{
    \hyperlink{subsec-\thesubsection}{#1}\addtocontents{toc}{\protect\hypertarget{subsec-\thesubsection}{}}
    }
% subsection*
% \titleformat{name=\subsection,numberless}
%  {\normalfont\large\bfseries}{\faCube\phantom{ }
%     % \thesubsection
%    }{0pt}{#1}

% LISTS
\usepackage{enumitem}
% \setlist{nosep}

% GRAPHS
\usepackage{graphicx}
% \graphicspath{{graphs/}}
% PDF pages
\usepackage{pdfpages}
\usepackage{subcaption}

% TABLES
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage[flushleft]{threeparttable}
\usepackage{adjustbox}
\usepackage[font={sc}]{caption}
\makeatletter\let\expandableinput\@@input\makeatother
% use \expandableinput filename.tex instead of \input{filename.tex}
\usepackage{siunitx}
\sisetup{
    input-symbols = {()},  % do not treat "()" in any special way
    output-decimal-marker={.},
    parse-numbers = true,
    group-digits  = all,
    group-separator = {,}
    }
\usepackage{makecell}
\usepackage{longtable}

% MATH
\usepackage{amsmath}
\DeclareMathOperator{\e}{E}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{amsthm}
\usepackage{cleveref}
% plain (italic)
\theoremstyle{plain}
\newtheorem{theorem}{Theorem}[section]
\newtheorem{lemma}[theorem]{Lemma}
\newtheorem{definition}[theorem]{Definition}
\newtheorem{assumption}[theorem]{Assumption}
% definition
\theoremstyle{definition}
\newtheorem{claim}[theorem]{Claim}
\newtheorem{algorithm}[theorem]{Algorithm}
\newtheorem{problem}[theorem]{Problem}
% remark: no extra space
\theoremstyle{remark}
\newtheorem{remark}[theorem]{Remark}
\newtheorem*{example}{Example}
\newtheorem*{solution}{Solution}
\newtheorem*{note}{Note}
% other math packages
\usepackage{bm}
\usepackage{mathtools}
\usepackage{IEEEtrantools}

% BIBLIOGRAPHY
\usepackage{natbib}

% LISTINGS
\usepackage{listings}
\lstdefinestyle{mystyle}{
    backgroundcolor=\color{backcolour},   
    commentstyle=\color{codegreen},
    keywordstyle=\color{magenta},
    numberstyle=\tiny\color{codegray},
    stringstyle=\color{codepurple},
    basicstyle=\ttfamily\footnotesize,
    breakatwhitespace=false,         
    breaklines=true,                 
    captionpos=b,                    
    keepspaces=true,                 
    numbers=left,                    
    numbersep=5pt,                  
    showspaces=false,                
    showstringspaces=false,
    showtabs=false,                  
    tabsize=2
}
\lstset{style=mystyle}

% SYMBOLS
\usepackage{fontawesome}

% TOOLS
\usepackage{lipsum}

% BASIC INFO
\title{}
\author{}
\date{}

% DOCUMENT
\begin{document}
\begin{sloppypar}

% TITLE
\maketitle

% TOC
% \tableofcontents

% BIB
% \bibliographystyle{econ-aea}
% \bibliography{"PATH_TO_BIB_FILE"}

\end{sloppypar}
\end{document}

Introduction to LaTeX

Resources

LaTeX editors

TBD

Tex engines

Document setup

Compilation

TBD

Page layout

TBD

Fonts

TBD

Colors

TBD

TBD

Title formating

titlesec

\titleformat{⟨command⟩}[⟨shape⟩]{⟨format⟩}{⟨label⟩}{⟨sep⟩}{⟨before-code⟩}[⟨after-code⟩]

Elements

Scalars

Tables

Table with notes (`minipage`)
\begin{table}[htbp] 
  \centering
  % \caption{}
  % \label{tab:}
  \footnotesize
  % \input{}
  \begin{minipage}{0.8\textwidth}
    \vspace{1ex} 
    \footnotesize 
    \textit{Notes}: This table presents ...
  \end{minipage}
\end{table}
Table with notes (`threeparttable`)
\begin{table}[htbp] 
  \centering
  % \caption{}
  % \label{tab:}
  \begin{threeparttable}
    \footnotesize
    % \input{}
    \begin{tablenotes}[flushleft]
      \footnotesize
      \item\hspace*{-0.3em}\textit{Note:} Standard errors in parentheses.
      % \item\hspace*{-0.3em}\textit{Source:}
    \end{tablenotes}
  \end{threeparttable}
\end{table}

Figures

Figure
\begin{figure}[htbp]
  \centering
  % \includegraphics[width=0.8\textwidth]{}
  % \caption{}
  % \label{fig:}
\end{figure}
Figure with notes
\begin{figure}[htbp]
  \centering
  % \includegraphics[width=0.8\textwidth]{}
  % \caption{}
  % \label{fig:}
  \begin{minipage}{0.8\textwidth}
    \vspace{1ex}
    \footnotesize
    \textit{Notes:} This figure shows ...
  \end{minipage}
\end{figure}

Math

Math symbols

Citations and bibliography

For more information about managing references, see Reference managers.

To download the AEA bibliography style file (aea.bst), click "LaTeX" from the link below:

Lists

TBD

Code blocks

TBD

Compilation

latexmk:

latexmk -pdf [-jobname=<jobname>] <filename>.tex