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Naming  convention

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sid:chapter_name:section_name

for labels that are referred by to other sections/chapters

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sid:chapter:figure_name
sid:chapter:table_name

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Problems with expl package being too old

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 ! Package siunitx Error: Support package expl3 too old.

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The version installed on CERN AFS, which should work on any SL5 Linux box, but is much more recent than the default installation

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/afs/cern.ch/sw/XML/TL2011/2011/bin/x86_64-linux/pdflatex

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Go to TexLive Homepage  for the latest packages, for Mac check out MacTex

Latex on Mac

Jan has collected a few tips on his webpage

How to create BiBTeX entries

For most papers, that are available on INSPIRE, Inspire can actually generate the BibTex entry for you

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Just click on BiBTeX and you 'll get 

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@article{White:2012vs,
      author         = "White, Andy",
      title          = "{Progress towards the Detailed Baseline Design for the
                        SiD Detector Concept}",
      year           = "2012",
      eprint         = "1202.6625",
      archivePrefix  = "arXiv",
      primaryClass   = "physics.ins-det",
      SLACcitation   = "%%CITATION = ARXIV:1202.6625;%%",
}

which you can then send to the main editors so it will be included in the BiBTex database and you can reference it in your chapter using

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 \cite{White:2012vs}

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