A repository of various useful latex things I have made
Current contents:
A tikz figure of a three-mass Atwood's machine. Pretty easy to fidget with the positions of the masses, pulleys and strings in order to make figures for other Atwood's Machines.
While writing up material on thermal physics, I couldn't find a satisfactory "d-bar" symbol for use in improper derivatives, so I made one, defined by the new command here.
I like custom math symbols. This is an example of defines an image file as the symbol. Here I define \poop as the unicode "dog dirt" image. I trimmed the raw graphic a bit to fit inline better. There are better ways of getting unicode characters into a document, but this works for any image.
Snipet of latex to draw a nice box for students to write their answer in for exams.
Proper syntax to use the wallpaper package to make a specified .pdf the background image for a document. I use this to write letters on a .pdf of the college letterhead, hence the filename.
I sometimes want to write roman numerals without it looking like the capital I and V of the current font, this uses more distinctive glyphs for them.
I'm sad that \wrapfig doesn't work inside of enumerate or itemize environments, so I mashed up a pair of minipages as shown in this file that place an image to the right or left of an item in an enumerated list. I use this a lot in writing problem sets.
Command for instering the twitter bird symbol for twitter handles in tex