preamble.tex

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% Page margins
\usepackage[margin=1in]{geometry}

% Muticolumn
\usepackage{multicol}

% Subcaptions
\usepackage{subcaption}

% Graphics
\usepackage{graphicx}

% Better tables
\usepackage{longtable}
\usepackage{tabu}
\usepackage{booktabs}

% Mathematics
\usepackage{amsmath}

% Bold math symbols (e.g. vectors)
\usepackage{bm}

% Differential operators and derivatives
\usepackage{commath}

% Numbers and units
\usepackage{siunitx}
\sisetup{per-mode = symbol,
  inter-unit-product = \ensuremath{{}\cdot{}}}

% Misc LaTeX patches
\usepackage{fixltx2e}

% Compact list environments
\usepackage{mdwlist}

% Title without author and date
\makeatletter
\renewcommand{\@maketitle}{\newpage\null\begin{center}{\LARGE \@title \par}\end{center}\par}
\makeatother

% Description environment labels are not bold and are followed by colon
\renewcommand*\descriptionlabel[1]{\hspace\labelsep\normalfont #1:}

% Shorthand for \mathrm
\newcommand{\mrm}[1]{\mathrm{#1}}

% Bold vectors
\renewcommand{\vec}[1]{\bm{#1}}
\newcommand{\uvec}[1]{\bm{\hat{#1}}}

% Del operator
\renewcommand{\del}{\vec{\nabla}}

% Multiletter variables
\newcommand{\var}[1]{\mathord{\mathit{#1}}}

% Vector/matrix transpose
\newcommand{\transpose}[1]{{{#1}^\top}}

% Volume
\newcommand{\volsym}{\settowidth{\dimen255}{V}\ooalign{$V$\cr\rule[.7ex]{\dimen255}{.4pt}\cr}}

% Error function and its complement
\DeclareMathOperator\erf{erf}
\DeclareMathOperator\erfc{erfc}

% Copyright notice on first page
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}

% Hyperlinks and PDF document title
\usepackage[pdftex]{hyperref}
\hypersetup{colorlinks,citecolor=black,filecolor=black,linkcolor=black,urlcolor=black}