How to make LATEX Document



In Windows:
Texnic Center (Free Software) + MikTex
In Unix: this can be done in Eden server, following the LATEX tutorial......
Install Tetex in Linux (Red hat 9.0), you need
  1. tetex-fonts-1.0.7-66.i386.rpm
  2. tetex-latex-1.0.7-66.i386.rpm
  3. tetex-1.0.7-66.i386.rpm
  4. tetex-dvips-1.0.7-66.i386.rpm

Link:
Input Special Symbol
LATEX FAQ
Another FAQ of LATEX
Squeezing Space in LaTeX
 

How to use IEEEtrans.cls

The default IEEEtrans.cls is for use of 11.7*8.34 page size for camera-ready paper.
So, to print it correctly, you have to give extra margin is top margins:
\setlength{\topmargin}{-0.2in}


Control The table width

{tabluar}{lp{2.5in}}
this will control a table in a width less than the 1 column of a page. But the problem is that no dividing lines will be in the table.  Note that the effective symbol is "p{2.5in}" for second column, "l" is still valid for first column with no width limit. Basically, for a column, we could use "l", "c", "r" or "p".


Reduce the margin space

\vspace*{-20mm}
or
Add [-10mm] at the end of line, paragraph.
or
\addtolength{\textfloatsep}{-6mm}
\addtolength{\abovecaptionskip}{-3mm}


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