The problem (as KennyTM noted) is that LaTeX won’t hyphenate words with dashes in them. Luckily, there’s a standard package (part of ncctools) that addresses that very problem, called extdash. This defines new hyphen and dash commands that do not disrupt hyphenation, and which can allow or prevent line breaks at the hyphen/dash. I prefer … Read more
Load the multicol package, like this \usepackage{multicol}. Then use: \begin{multicols}{2} Column 1 \columnbreak Column 2 \end{multicols} If you omit the \columnbreak, the columns will balance automatically.
The way to fix this sort of problem is to redefine the relevant list environment. The enumitem package is my favourite way to do this sort of thing; it has many options and parameters that can be varied, either for all lists or for each list individually. Here’s how to do (something like) what it … Read more
Use the “geometry” package and write \newgeometry{left=3cm,bottom=0.1cm} where you want to change your margins. When you want to reset your margins, you write \restoregeometry.
\include always uses \clearpage, a not entirely sensible default. It is intended for entire chapters, not for subsections (why would you want subsections in separate files, anyway?). You can fix it either by using \input{filename} or loading the newclude package and writing \include*{filename} instead.
Have a look to this wiki: LaTeX/Labels and Cross-referencing: The hyperref package automatically includes the nameref package, and a similarly named command. It inserts text corresponding to the section name, for example: \section{MyFirstSection} \label{marker} \section{MySecondSection} In section \nameref{marker} we defined…
It looks like pandoc markdown uses standard LaTeX tags for this purpose: \newpage and \pagebreak
The best way to do it without any headache is to use the \tablefootnote command from the tablefootnote package. Add the following to your preamble: \usepackage{tablefootnote} It just works without the need of additional tricks.
After doing some more googling I came across the float package which lets you prevent LaTeX from repositioning the tables. In the preamble: \usepackage{float} Then for each table you can use the H placement option (e.g. \begin{table}[H]) to make sure it doesn’t get repositioned.
If your equation does not fit on a single line, then the multline (note that that’s multline without an “i”, not “multiline”) environment probably is what you need: \begin{multline} first part of the equation \\ = second part of the equation \end{multline} If you also need some alignment respect to the first part, you can … Read more