Latex Hacks - Bag of Tricks

Steps to Highlight certain bibliography items with asterisk (for example) marks

• Add keywords={important} in a particular entry in .bib file.

  Example:

  @inproceedings{bar,
      author       = {Bar},
      title        = {Bar},
      booktitle    = {Bar},
      year         = {2017},
      keywords     = {important},
    }
  

• Add the following command in the preamble section

\renewbibmacro*{begentry}{\ifkeyword{important}{\makebox[0pt][r]{\textasteriskcentered\addspace}}{}}

• Voila! source

How to Add Markdown Support in Latex

• Add markdownpackage in the preamble

  \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
  \usepackage[hybrid,smartEllipses]{markdown}
  

• Now you can create a markdown file, add all your contents and style in makrdown and link the .md file in the document section of your latex file using this command \markdownInput{objective.md}

• With the hybrid parameter, you can use latex code inside your markdown. Also, you need to escape latex-special characters if you choose to use hybrid parameter.

• For compiling, you need to add --shell-escapeparameter from command-line like this:

  pdflatex --shell-escape main.tex
  

• You can also use a makefile, if you want to generate bibliography. Here’s a sample Makefile:

  notarealfile.pdf:
  	pdflatex --shell-escape main.tex
  	bibtex main
  	pdflatex --shell-escape main
  	pdflatex --shell-escape main
  
  clean:
  	rm -f *.pdf
  	rm -f *.dvi
  	rm -f *.toc
  	rm -f *.aux
  	rm -f *.bbl
  	rm -f *.log
  	rm -f *.blg
  	rm -f *.bak
  	rm -f *.out
  	rm -f *.ps
  	rm -f *.synctex.gz
  

• For more, check overleaf