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| LaTeX Note 006                                  jodys@helluin.org |
| Small tips and tricks                                   4/26/2014 |
|                                                             v0.03 |
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Misc. Symbols I always forget

~     \~{}    Text mode
~     \sim    Math mode

A couple of tricks to cut down on extraneous white space

\usepackage[small,compact]{titlesec} % makes section/title headings 
                                     % more compact
\usepackage[small,it]{caption}       % makes captions tighter