LaTeX - A document preparation system

\newcommand{\myBeautifulMacro}[1]	{\texttt{#1}}

\newcommand{\myBeautifulMacro}[1]	{{\fontfamily{lmss}\selectfont #1}}

• \fontfamily{fontSpec}\selectfont is how you select the fontSpec font
• the extra surrounding braces {} are there to limit the scope of the font change (i.e. make this an "inline" style, for those who are familiar with CSS). This is a common LaTeX hack.
• the hard (HARD !) part is to find the fontSpec value (here lmss)

Finding the fontSpec value (source) :

The LaTeX Font Catalogue :	http://www.tug.dk/FontCatalogue/

https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/2305/what-fonts-are-installed-on-my-box
	updmap-sys --listmaps | less

'fc-list' : list available fonts
	fc-list | cut -d\ -f2-99 | cut -d: -f1 | sort -u
	fc-query /usr/share/texmf/fonts/opentype/public/lm-math/latinmodern-math.otf


https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/25249/how-do-i-use-a-particular-font-for-a-small-section-of-text-in-my-document
	find /usr/share/ -type f -a -name "*sty" -exec grep -lE 'renewcommand.*sfdefault' {} \;
	find /usr/share/ -type f -a -name "*sty" | xargs -I truc bash -c 'grep -E "renewcommand.*sfdefault" truc && echo truc' > result.txt

lmtt	Latin Modern Typewriter	==> no error, but I'm actually trying to avoid typewriter fonts
lmr	Latin Modern		==> works but doesn't match with other fonts (serif / sans serif ?)
lmssq				==> fine but too big
lmss


Fonts 3-letter codes : https://www.overleaf.com/learn/latex/Font_typefaces#Reference_guide

https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/44361/how-to-automatically-hyphenate-within-texttt

apt-get install texlive-base texlive-lang-french texlive-latex-base

1. While working with L^AT_EX, you will produce a text file document.tex
2. Then, you have to "compile" it :
   latex document.tex
   This outputs document.dvi (DVI = DeVice Independant)
3. This .dvi file can be :
   • viewed as is : xdvi document.dvi
   • or converted to PDF : dvipdf document.dvi and viewed with GhostView: gv document.pdf

Headers and footers have left and right sides, which content can be explicitly specified :

Descriptors value must be chosen from :

• L : left
• C : center
• R : right
• E : apply to even pages
• O : apply to odd pages

examples (source) :

\fancyhead[RO,LE]{\title}

\fancyfoot[C]{- \thepage{} -}

When you make pdf files from L^AT_EX with dvipdf or pdflatex, the fonts are very ugly to look at on the screen. This _may be_ because the standard L^AT_EX fonts are not supported by Acrobat reader.
Solutions :

1. using the times font :
   As a non-L^AT_EX expert, I just want my PDF files to look nice, so let's go for the easy solution: include the times package in the header of the L^AT_EX file : \usepackage{times}
2. OR : Using fontenc and dvips+ps2pdf, or dvipdfm :
   I don't want the times font, I want to use the standard L^AT_EX font. (Full technical details here !). So the header of my .tex file may look like :
   \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
   \usepackage{ae}
   When I have made my .dvi file, I write :
   dvips -Ppdf -o outfile.ps myDviFile.dvi
   Afterwards when I make the pdf with :
   ps2pdf outfile.ps
   Everything looks fine.
   Instead of dvips, you can also go directly with dvipdfm (must be downloaded and installed), and specify the resolution and paper format :
   dvipdfm -p a4 -r 600 -o report.pdf myDviFile.dvi
   You can find lots of comments and solutions to he problem if you search Google with e.g: ae package fontenc T1 EC pdf.

1. use the color package with the nodvipsnames option (disables the named model for dvips, to save memory) :
   \usepackage[nodvipsnames]{color}
2. define your own colors with :
   \definecolor{colorName}{rgb}{rr,gg,bb}
   Other models than rgb are available, such as cmyk
3. use your colors:
   • \pagecolor{colorName}: to change the page background color.
   • \color{colorName}: toggles the current text color.
   • \normalcolor: switches to the color that was active at the end of the preamble. Thus placing a \color command in the preamble can change the standard color for the whole document.
   • \textcolor{colorName}{Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet}: writes "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet" in the specified color
   • \colorbox{background_color}{Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet}: writes "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet" with a background color
   • \fcolorbox{frame_color}{background_color}{Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet}: writes "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet" with a background and a frame

1. Load the hyperref package with its set of arguments (syntax : \usepackage[options]{packageName}):

   \usepackage[
   pdfauthor={John Doe},
   pdftitle={The title of the document},
   pdfsubject={The subject of the document},
   pdfkeywords={document,keywords,separated,by,coma}
   ]{hyperref}

2. insert links in your .tex document :
   • To an external target :
     • \href{target}{text}
     • \url{url}
   • To an internal target :
     • Link : \hyperlink{targetName}{text}
     • Target : \hypertarget{targetName}{text}

3. Notes

   • The font looks better with pdflatex than with dvipdf but images are gone
   • Hyperlinks work just fine while reading the PDF as "embedded" in a browser, but nothing happens if they're opened straight from Acrobat Reader
   • Looks like once hyperref is used, links are automatically created for the table of contents.
   • View example

\input{file}

The \input command causes the indicated file to be read and processed, exactly as if its contents had been inserted in the current file at that point. The file name may be a complete file name with extension or just a first name, in which case the file `file.tex' is used. (???)