Useful LaTeX packages and their main commands

• setspace — set space between lines
  • \singlespacing
  • \onehalfspacing
  • \doublespacing

• textpos — absolute positioning of text on the page
  • \textbox

• geometry — flexible and complete interface to document dimensions
• enumitem — Control layout of itemize, enumerate, description
• titlesec — Select alternative section titles
• titletoc — alternative headings for toc/lof/lot (better than fancyhdr)
• listings — typeset source code listings using LaTeX
• versions — optionally omit pieces of text
• acronym — expand acronyms at least once
• crop — support for cropmarks
• hyperref — extensive support for hypertext in LaTeX
• multicol — intermix single and multiple columns
• tocbibind — add bibliography/index/contents to Table of Contents
• caption / caption2 — customising captions in floating environments
• xcolor — driver-independent color extensions for LATEX and pdfLaTeX

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