LaTeX Cheatsheet Template

A compact A4-landscape reference sheet layout — 7 columns, 5pt font, colour-coded markup. Compile with XeLaTeX.

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Setup

• Copy the file, keep the preamble unchanged, edit only the body
• Margins are extremely tight by design (max printable area)
• Font: Verdana via fontspec — swap for DejaVu Sans or Arial on Linux

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Custom Commands

Command	Colour	Use for
\hlhighlight{}	Yellow bg	Major section banner
\sectitle{}	Dark blue	Sub-section heading
\concept{}	Teal	Key terms / vocabulary
\procname{}	Purple	Process names / steps
\category{}	Green bold	Category labels (Pros/Cons)
\lbl{}	Green bold	Inline key–value keys
\lblnb{}	Green plain	Softer inline labels

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Usage Pattern

\hlhighlight{My Topic}
\sectitle{Sub-section}
\begin{itemize}
  \item \concept{Term:} definition.
  \item \category{Pros:} advantage.
\end{itemize}

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Fitting Content

• Shrink font: \fontsize{4.5pt}{4.5pt}
• More columns: change \begin{multicols}{7} to {8} or {9}
• Tighter gap: \setlength{\columnsep}{5pt}
• Force column break: \columnbreak

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Notes

• Do not use pdfLaTeX — fontspec requires XeLaTeX
• Works in Overleaf (set compiler to XeLaTeX)

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Licence

This repository is released under the MIT Licence