Why is it important to follow good practices and not get killed by a Velociraptor ;)
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To restrict the length of the figure caption in List of figures use a [short-title] and {longtitle} for the caption or the section:
`\caption[Caption that you want to appear in TOC]{Actual caption of the figure}` `\section[short]{title}` -
To exclude sections from being numbered and disable it from appearing in the Table of Contents use \section*{Section_Name} or \chapter*{Chapter_Name}
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To only exclude it from being listed in the Table of Contents encapsulate the section command inside the
\tochidecommand.\tochide{\section{Section_Name}}the section will not appear in the Table of Contents, but the section will be numbered. -
When including figures in your tex file, it's a good practice to size your picture depending on the page size, instead of using absolute values. In the following example
0.75\textwidthrefers to picture width being set to 75% of the text width.\includegraphics[width=0.75\textwidth]{minion} -
Use a
-to separate sort key from the prefixes, eg.,g-pidentes the Greek symbolpi.