04-improvements.tex

% Provides: Improvements for LaTeX default environments or options
% Requires: /

% Prevents page numbers and headings from appearing on empty pages.
\usepackage{emptypage}

% Allows the [H]-option for figures and tables, placing it exactly HERE.
\usepackage{float}

% Visually pleasing captions and subcaptions.
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage{subcaption}
% Seems like a good default, but might need to be adjusted in two-column documents.
\captionsetup{margin=10pt,font=small,labelfont=bf}

% Provides quotation-commands and styling options.
% The ‘autostyle’ makes csquotes use the default quotation style of the doucment‘s language. (Requires a language to be set via babel.)
\usepackage[autostyle]{csquotes}

% Better table layout (especially less clutter)
\usepackage{booktabs}
% Allows the “D”-column type in tabular, aligning mathematical expressions in a table column (usually decimal separator)
\usepackage{dcolumn}
% Allows merging rows or cells across rows.
\usepackage{multirow}
% allows using the ‘\rowcolors’ command
\usepackage{colortbl}

% Some packages misbehave with beamer.
\iftoggle{is-beamer}{}{
	% Fine-grained control over ‘enumerate’ and ‘itemize’ environments.
	% Either set options per environment or globally via ‘\setlist[…]{…}’
	\usepackage{enumitem}
	\setlist{noitemsep}
	\setlist[1]{labelindent=\parindent}
	\setlist[itemize]{leftmargin=*}
}

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