preamble.tex

% !TEX root = main.tex
% \usepackage{scrhack}    							  	% Fix 'scrreprt' documentclass
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
\usepackage{titling}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{mathtools}
% \usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{amsthm}
% \usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{epstopdf}
\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage{subcaption}
\usepackage{sidecap}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage[none]{hyphenat}
\usepackage[nottoc]{tocbibind}
\usepackage{tablefootnote} 								% Put table foot notes (they don't normally appear)
\usepackage{bm}											% Bold math symbols
\usepackage{eurosym}									% Euro symbol
\usepackage{textcomp}									% Degree symbol
\usepackage[font=footnotesize,labelfont=bf]{caption}	% Change caption's font
\usepackage{multicol}									% Use Multiple Comlumns
\usepackage{multirow}									% Use multiple rows
\usepackage[toc,page]{appendix}							% Make Appendix
\usepackage{pdfpages}									% Attach PDF pages
\usepackage{listings}									% Add source code to LaTeX
\usepackage{tabulary}									% Substitute tabular. Autofits content
	% use with: \begin{tabulary}{1.0\textwidth}{L|C|R}
\usepackage[version=4]{mhchem}                    		% Easily write chemical formulas
\usepackage{arydshln}                                 	% Make dashed lines in tabular, matrix
	% use with: \hdashline \vdashline


%% HEADER AND FOOTER
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhf{}
\fancyhead[LE]{\textit{\rightmark}}                     % LE: Left even pages
\fancyhead[RO]{\textit{\leftmark}}                      % RO: Right odd pages
\fancyfoot[LE,RO]{\thepage}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{1pt}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{1pt}


%% SETTING THE NUMBERING SCHEMES OF SECTIONS AND TABLE OF CONTENTS
\setcounter{tocdepth}{2}
\setcounter{secnumdepth}{3}


%% MAKING PARAGRAPHS A SUBSUBSUBSECTION
\usepackage{titlesec}
\titleformat{\paragraph}
{\normalfont\itshape\bfseries}{\theparagraph}{2em}{}
\titlespacing*{\paragraph}
{1em}{1.2em}{0em}


%% DEFINE CUSTOM COLORS TO BE USED
\definecolor{blue}{HTML}{2160C9}
\definecolor{grey}{HTML}{bebebe}
% \definecolor{darkgrey}{rgb}{0.92,0.92,0.92}


%% LINKS INSIDE THE DOCUMENT
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[colorinlistoftodos]{todonotes}
\usepackage[colorlinks=true, allcolors=blue]{hyperref}


%% CUSTOM TODO's
	\newcommand\todos[1]{
		\parbox{\linewidth}{
		\vspace{0.5em}\hspace{1em}
		\todo[backgroundcolor=blue!25,bordercolor=white,inline]{\small{#1}}}
	}


%% MAKE A NOMENCLATURE
\immediate\write18{makeindex -s nomencl.ist -o "\jobname.nls" "\jobname.nlo"}
\usepackage[intoc]{nomencl}
\makenomenclature
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\renewcommand\nomgroup[1]{%
 	\item[\bfseries
 	\ifstrequal{#1}{A}{Abbreviations}{%
 	\ifstrequal{#1}{B}{Symbol list}{%
 	\ifstrequal{#1}{C}{Greek symbols}{
  \ifstrequal{#1}{D}{Subscripts}{
 	\ifstrequal{#1}{E}{Superscripts}{}}}}}%
]}
\sloppy
% This will add the units
\newcommand{\nomunit}[1]{%
\renewcommand{\nomentryend}{\hspace*{\fill}[#1]}}



%% CITATION FROM THE BIBLIOGRAPHY
\usepackage[square, numbers, sort&compress, nonamebreak]{natbib}
% \bibliographystyle{abbrvnat}
% \bibliographystyle{unsrtnat}


%% ITEMIZE AND ENUMARATE - SEPARATION AND STYLE
\usepackage{enumitem}
\setitemize{noitemsep,topsep=0pt,parsep=0pt,partopsep=0pt}
\setenumerate{noitemsep,topsep=0pt,parsep=0pt,partopsep=0pt}
% Label for item
\renewcommand\labelitemi{\textcolor{blue}{$\diamond$}}
% Margins for itemize and enumerate
\setlist[itemize,1]{leftmargin=5em, rightmargin=5em}
\setlist[enumerate,1]{leftmargin=5em, rightmargin=5em}


%% PARAGRAPH INDENDATION
\setlength{\parindent}{0em}
\setlength{\parskip}{0.5em}


%% CAPTIONS ON FIGURES TABLES EQUOATIONS
\captionsetup[figure]{labelfont={bf},labelformat={default},labelsep=period,name={Fig.}}
\captionsetup[table]{labelfont={bf},labelformat={default},labelsep=period,name={Tab.}}