Symbols


  2. Strikethrough font 
    \usepackage[normalem]{ulem}
\sout{words with a strikethrough line}
%For citations
\sout{\mbox{\citet{Rison2015}}}

  3. font color 
    \usepackage{color}
\textcolor{red}{These words are in red.}

  4. Show date of "last update" at the bottom of a page 
    \vfill{}
\begin{center}
{\scriptsize Last updated: \today}
\end{center}

  5. Set properties of links 
    \hypersetup{
	colorlinks=true,       % false: boxed links; true: colored links
	linkcolor=blue,        % color of internal links
	citecolor=blue,        % color of links to bibliography
	filecolor=magenta,     % color of file links
	urlcolor=blue         
}

  6. Make the first paragraph indented 
    \usepackage{indentfirst}

  7. Set spacing between paragraphs (in the preamble) 
    \setlength{\parskip}{1.0ex plus 0.3ex minus 0.3ex} %from 0.7 ex to 1.3 ex

  8. Manually set spacing 
    \vspace{1ex}

  9. Do not show date in the title part 
    \title{Title of the paper}
\author{Ting Wu}
\date{\vspace{-5ex}}
\maketitle

  10. Insert a figure 
    \begin{figure}[!t] %t: top; b: bottom; h: here
        \centering 
        \includegraphics[width=0.9\columnwidth]{figName}
        \caption{\label{reflabel}
        This is a useful figure.
\end{figure}