LaTeX tricks

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Online Tools for Latex

• Online Bibtex clean, order and duplicate removal https://flamingtempura.github.io/bibtex-tidy/
• Latex tables to edit or update existing tables by their import toolshttps://www.latex-tables.com/
• Plugin for Microsoft PowerPoint to write native latex instead of images https://www.fast.ai/posts/2019-06-17-latex-ppt.html
• Latex workshop for Vscode with nice shortcuts, previews and autocomplete making the writing better than on Overleaf (sync to overleaf with github) https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=James-Yu.latex-workshop
• Grammarly on VScode https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=znck.grammarly

Packages

• Cref used to do clever referencing so instead of writing Fig.~\ref{fig:fig1}, just \cref{fig:fig1} produces same result based on what is before : https://texblog.org/2013/05/06/cleveref-a-clever-way-to-reference-in-latex/
• Acronyms package or glossaries https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/25520/how-can-i-use-the-latex-acronym-package-and-optionally-create-an-acronym-list-i