Massive cleanup. Changed fonts to libertine, and added todonotes.

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\documentclass[a4paper, 12pt]{article} \usepackage[a4paper, portrait, hmargin=20mm, vmargin=25mm]{geometry} \usepackage[bookmarks, colorlinks]{hyperref} \usepackage{paralist, float, tabularx, hhline, graphicx, xcolor, todonotes, hyperref} \hypersetup{ bookmarks, colorlinks, citecolor=black, linkcolor=black, % don't need colored links urlcolor=blue!55!black % blue enough to see, but dark enough to print } %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %% fonts %% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \usepackage{cmap} % fix PDF searching (ligatures cause problems) \usepackage{libertine} % default font set (looks good on both screen and paper) \usepackage[scaled]{beramono} % code font \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} % force type 1 fonts \usepackage{microtype} % general improvements to typography \usepackage{textcomp} % additional symbols (like the degrees symbol} \usepackage{listings} % syntax highlighting % make \emph do italics (just in case other environments change it) \renewcommand{\emph}[1]{\textit{#1}} % add a \strong command \newcommand{\strong}[1]{\textbf{#1}} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %% sections %% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \usepackage[sf,bf]{titlesec} \titlespacing{\section}{0pt}{0.75\parskip}{-0.25\parskip} \titlespacing{\subsection}{0pt}{0.75\parskip}{-0.25\parskip} \titlespacing{\subsubsection}{0pt}{0.75\parskip}{-0.25\parskip} \titlespacing{\paragraph}{0pt}{0.75\parskip}{-0.25\parskip} % repurpose \paragraph as \subsubsubsection (which it sort of is already) \titleformat{\paragraph}{\normalfont\normalsize\sffamily\bfseries}{\theparagraph}{1em}{} \titlespacing{\paragraph}{0pt}{0.75\parskip}{-0.25\parskip} \newcommand{\subsubsubsection}[1]{\paragraph{#1}} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %% headers/footers %% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \usepackage{fancyhdr} \pagestyle{fancyplain} \fancyhead[L]{\footnotesize\PaperCode~--~\PaperTitle} \fancyhead[C]{} \fancyhead[R]{\footnotesize\LabNum\LabTitle} \fancyfoot[L]{} \fancyfoot[C]{\thepage} \fancyfoot[R]{} \setlength{\headheight}{14pt} \renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %% general layout %% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % relax the justification/hyphenation wrapping settings \tolerance=800 \emergencystretch=5mm % try to avoid widows and orphans \clubpenalty = 10000 \widowpenalty = 10000 % kill the paragraph indenting \setlength{\parindent}{0 mm} \setlength{\parskip}{0.7\baselineskip} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %% syntax highlighting %% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % create the fonts for code highlighting \newcommand\codesize{\fontsize{11}{8}\selectfont} \newcommand{\codefont}{\fontfamily{fvm}\selectfont} % beramono \newcommand{\commentfont}{\rmfamily\itshape} % standard roman % define the colors for code highlighting (based on Eclipse colors) %\definecolor{KeywordColor}{rgb}{0.5,0,0.33} %\definecolor{CommentColor}{rgb}{0.25,0.5,0.37} %\definecolor{StringColor}{rgb}{0.16,0,1} % define the colors for code highlighting (based on NetBeans colors, although darker) \definecolor{KeywordColor}{rgb}{0.0,0,0.7} \definecolor{CommentColor}{rgb}{0.3,0.3,0.3} \definecolor{StringColor}{rgb}{0.4,0.22.0} \lstdefinelanguage{JavaScript}{ keywords={typeof, new, true, false, catch, function, return, null, catch, switch, var, if, in, while, do, else, case, break, this}, sensitive=false, comment=[l]{//}, morecomment=[s]{/}{/}, morestring=[b]', morestring=[b]" } % create a new environment for source code blocks \lstnewenvironment{codeblock}[1][] { \lstset{ language=Java, upquote=true, basicstyle=\color{black}\codefont\codesize, keywordstyle=\color{KeywordColor}\codefont\codesize, commentstyle=\color{CommentColor}\commentfont\normalsize, stringstyle=\color{StringColor}\codefont\codesize, aboveskip=10pt, belowskip=0pt, showstringspaces=false, tabsize=3, showtabs=false, columns=fullflexible, flexiblecolumns=true, breaklines=true }\lstset{#1}} {} % command for typesetting inline code \newcommand{\code}[2][language=java]{% \lstset{% language=Java, upquote=true, basicstyle=\color{black}\codefont\codesize, keywordstyle=\color{black}\codefont\codesize, commentstyle=\color{black}\commentfont\normalsize, stringstyle=\color{black}\codefont\codesize, showstringspaces=false, showtabs=false }% \mbox{\lstinline[#1]!#2!}} % centre command that won't add any vertical space before or after \newcommand{\centre}[1]{\hfill#1\hfill} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %% figures %% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % PDF tex graphics extensions \DeclareGraphicsExtensions{.jpg,.jpeg,.pdf,.png} % command for figures with captions - first param is scale. \newcommand{\captionedfig}[3] { \begin{figure}[H] \begin{center} \includegraphics[scale=#1,draft=false]{#2} \\ #3 \vspace{-25pt} \end{center} \end{figure} } % command for figures - first param is scale. \newcommand{\fig}[2] { \begin{figure}[H] \begin{center} \includegraphics[scale=#1,draft=false]{#2} \vspace{-25pt} \end{center} \end{figure} } % command for figures rotated 90 degrees right - first param is scale. \newcommand{\rotatedfig}[2] { \begin{figure}[H] \begin{center} \includegraphics[scale=#1,draft=false, angle=270]{#2} \end{center} \end{figure} } %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %% lists %% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % fix the extra spacing that itemize/enumerate has when you put have an blank % line prior to the environment (paralist). \setlength{\pltopsep}{0.2\baselineskip} \setlength{\plpartopsep}{-0.2\baselineskip} \setlength{\plitemsep}{0.2\baselineskip} \setlength{\plparsep}{0.4\baselineskip} % use paralist compact versions by default so that above tweaks are used \renewenvironment{itemize}% {\begin{compactitem}}% {\end{compactitem}} \renewenvironment{enumerate}% {\begin{compactenum}}% {\end{compactenum}} % rationalise the bullet points \def\labelitemi{\footnotesize$\bullet$} \def\labelitemii{\footnotesize$\circ$} \def\labelitemiii{\footnotesize$\diamond$} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %% to-do notes %% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % fix todonotes 'wrong margin' issue \reversemarginpar \newcommand{\fix}{\todo[color=red!60,noline,size=\large]{Fix}} \newcommand{\comment}[1]{\todo[color=yellow!60,inline,size=\large]{#1}} \newcommand{\incomplete}{\todo[color=red!60,inline,size=\large]{Incomplete}} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %% misc %% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % a simpler way of getting a right arrow \newcommand{\ra}[0]{$\rightarrow$~} \documentclass[a4paper, 12pt, pdftex]{article} \usepackage{cmap} % attempt to fix search with ligatures problem. \usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx} \usepackage[pdftex, a4paper, portrait, left=20mm, right=20mm, top=30mm, bottom=25mm]{geometry} \usepackage[pdftex, bookmarks, colorlinks=false]{hyperref} \usepackage{paralist} \usepackage{pslatex} \usepackage{float} \usepackage{tabularx} \usepackage{hhline} \usepackage[usenames]{xcolor} \usepackage{pdfpages} % font stuff \usepackage[scaled]{beramono} % code font \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} % might fix copy-pasting issues \usepackage[protrusion=true,expansion=true]{microtype} \usepackage{textcomp} \usepackage{listings} \usepackage{sectsty} % easily change section style \allsectionsfont{\raggedright\sffamily\bfseries} \usepackage{titlesec} % allows adjustment of section spacing \titlespacing{\section}{0pt}{0.75\parskip}{-0.25\parskip} \titlespacing{\subsection}{0pt}{0.75\parskip}{-0.25\parskip} \titlespacing{\subsubsection}{0pt}{0.75\parskip}{-0.25\parskip} \titlespacing{\paragraph}{0pt}{0.75\parskip}{-0.25\parskip} % repurpose \paragraph as \subsubsubsection (which is sort of is already) \titleformat{\paragraph}{\normalfont\normalsize\sffamily\bfseries}{\theparagraph}{1em}{} \titlespacing{\paragraph}{0pt}{0.75\parskip}{-0.25\parskip} \newcommand{\subsubsubsection}[1]{\paragraph{#1}} \usepackage{fancyhdr} \pagestyle{fancyplain} \fancyhead[L]{\footnotesize\PaperCode~--~\PaperTitle} \fancyhead[C]{} \fancyhead[R]{\footnotesize\LabNum\LabTitle} \fancyfoot[L]{} \fancyfoot[C]{\thepage} \fancyfoot[R]{} \setlength{\headheight}{14pt} \renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt} % PDF tex graphics extensions \DeclareGraphicsExtensions{.jpg,.jpeg,.pdf,.png,.mps} % font size for code \def\thesize{11truept} % relax the justification/hyphenation wrapping settings \tolerance=800 \emergencystretch=15mm % kill the paragraph indenting \setlength{\parindent}{0 mm} \setlength{\parskip}{0.7\baselineskip} % create the fonts for code highlighting \newcommand\codesize{\fontsize{11}{8}\selectfont} \newcommand{\codefont}{\fontfamily{fvm}\selectfont} \newcommand{\commentfont}{\rmfamily\itshape} % define the colors for code highlighting (based on Eclipse colors) %\definecolor{KeywordColor}{rgb}{0.5,0,0.33} %\definecolor{CommentColor}{rgb}{0.25,0.5,0.37} %\definecolor{StringColor}{rgb}{0.16,0,1} % define the colors for code highlighting (based on NetBeans colors) \definecolor{KeywordColor}{rgb}{0.0,0,0.9} \definecolor{CommentColor}{rgb}{0.39,0.39,0.39} \definecolor{StringColor}{rgb}{0.41,0.24.0} \lstdefinelanguage{JavaScript}{ keywords={typeof, new, true, false, catch, function, return, null, catch, switch, var, if, in, while, do, else, case, break, this}, sensitive=false, comment=[l]{//}, morecomment=[s]{/}{/}, morestring=[b]', morestring=[b]" } % create a new environment for source code blocks \lstnewenvironment{codeblock}[1][] { \lstset{ language=Java, upquote=true, basicstyle=\color{black}\codefont\codesize, keywordstyle=\color{KeywordColor}\codefont\codesize, commentstyle=\color{CommentColor}\commentfont\normalsize, stringstyle=\color{StringColor}\codefont\codesize, aboveskip=10pt, belowskip=0pt, showstringspaces=false, tabsize=3, showtabs=false, columns=fullflexible, flexiblecolumns=true, breaklines=true }\lstset{#1}} {} % command for typesetting inline code \newcommand{\code}[2][language=java]{% \lstset{% language=Java, upquote=true, basicstyle=\color{black}\codefont\normalsize, keywordstyle=\color{KeywordColor}\codefont\normalsize, commentstyle=\color{CommentColor}\commentfont\normalsize, stringstyle=\color{StringColor}\codefont\normalsize, showstringspaces=false, showtabs=false }% \mbox{\lstinline[#1]!#2!}} % centre command that won't add any vertical space before or after \newcommand{\centre}[1]{\hfill#1\hfill} % command for figures with captions - first param is scale. \newcommand{\captionedfig}[3] { \begin{figure}[H] \begin{center} \includegraphics[scale=#1,draft=false]{#2} \\ #3 \vspace{-25pt} \end{center} \end{figure} } % command for figures - first param is scale. \newcommand{\fig}[2] { \begin{figure}[H] \begin{center} \includegraphics[scale=#1,draft=false]{#2} \vspace{-25pt} \end{center} \end{figure} } % command for figures rotated 90 degrees right - first param is scale. \newcommand{\rotatedfig}[2] { \begin{figure}[H] \begin{center} \includegraphics[scale=#1,draft=false, angle=270]{#2} \end{center} \end{figure} } % new indent command that doesn't rely on \parindent \renewcommand{\indent}{\hspace*{5 mm}} % make \emph do italics (just in case other environments make it do something else) \renewcommand{\emph}[1]{\textit{#1}} % a simpler way of getting a right arrow \newcommand{\ra}[0]{$\rightarrow$~} % a command for padding out a page \newcommand{\pad}[0]{\vspace{\stretch{1}}} % command for adding a placeholder for information to be entered at a later date \newcommand{\fixme}[1]{\textcolor{red}{\textbf{TO DO:~ }#1}} \newcommand{\todo}[1]{\fixme{#1}} % fix the extra spacing that itemize/enumerate has when you put have an blank % line prior to the environment. \setlength{\pltopsep}{0.2\baselineskip} \setlength{\plpartopsep}{-0.2\baselineskip} \setlength{\plitemsep}{0.2\baselineskip} \setlength{\plparsep}{0.4\baselineskip} \renewenvironment{itemize}% {\begin{compactitem}}% {\end{compactitem}} \renewenvironment{enumerate}% {\begin{compactenum}}% {\end{compactenum}}

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labs/preamble.tex

\documentclass[a4paper, 12pt]{article}

\usepackage[a4paper, portrait, hmargin=20mm, vmargin=25mm]{geometry}
\usepackage[bookmarks, colorlinks]{hyperref}
\usepackage{paralist, float, tabularx, hhline, graphicx, xcolor, todonotes, hyperref}

\hypersetup{
	bookmarks, colorlinks,
	citecolor=black, linkcolor=black,  % don't need colored links
	urlcolor=blue!55!black % blue enough to see, but dark enough to print
}

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%% fonts                                                                     %%
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

\usepackage{cmap}              % fix PDF searching (ligatures cause problems)
\usepackage{libertine}         % default font set (looks good on both screen and paper)
\usepackage[scaled]{beramono}  % code font
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}       % force type 1 fonts
\usepackage{microtype}         % general improvements to typography
\usepackage{textcomp}          % additional symbols (like the degrees symbol}
\usepackage{listings}          % syntax highlighting

% make \emph do italics (just in case other environments change it)
\renewcommand{\emph}[1]{\textit{#1}}

% add a \strong command
\newcommand{\strong}[1]{\textbf{#1}}

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%% sections                                                                  %%
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

\usepackage[sf,bf]{titlesec}
\titlespacing{\section}{0pt}{0.75\parskip}{-0.25\parskip}
\titlespacing{\subsection}{0pt}{0.75\parskip}{-0.25\parskip}
\titlespacing{\subsubsection}{0pt}{0.75\parskip}{-0.25\parskip}
\titlespacing{\paragraph}{0pt}{0.75\parskip}{-0.25\parskip}

% repurpose \paragraph as \subsubsubsection (which it sort of is already)
\titleformat{\paragraph}{\normalfont\normalsize\sffamily\bfseries}{\theparagraph}{1em}{}
\titlespacing{\paragraph}{0pt}{0.75\parskip}{-0.25\parskip}
\newcommand{\subsubsubsection}[1]{\paragraph{#1}}

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%% headers/footers                                                           %%
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancyplain}
\fancyhead[L]{\footnotesize\PaperCode~--~\PaperTitle}
\fancyhead[C]{}
\fancyhead[R]{\footnotesize\LabNum\LabTitle}
\fancyfoot[L]{}
\fancyfoot[C]{\thepage}
\fancyfoot[R]{}
\setlength{\headheight}{14pt}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt}

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%% general layout                                                            %%
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

% relax the justification/hyphenation wrapping settings
\tolerance=800
\emergencystretch=5mm

% try to avoid widows and orphans
\clubpenalty = 10000
\widowpenalty = 10000

% kill the paragraph indenting
\setlength{\parindent}{0 mm}
\setlength{\parskip}{0.7\baselineskip}

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%% syntax highlighting                                                       %%
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

% create the fonts for code highlighting
\newcommand\codesize{\fontsize{11}{8}\selectfont}
\newcommand{\codefont}{\fontfamily{fvm}\selectfont} % beramono
\newcommand{\commentfont}{\rmfamily\itshape}  % standard roman

% define the colors for code highlighting (based on Eclipse colors)
%\definecolor{KeywordColor}{rgb}{0.5,0,0.33}
%\definecolor{CommentColor}{rgb}{0.25,0.5,0.37}
%\definecolor{StringColor}{rgb}{0.16,0,1}

% define the colors for code highlighting (based on NetBeans colors, although darker)
\definecolor{KeywordColor}{rgb}{0.0,0,0.7}
\definecolor{CommentColor}{rgb}{0.3,0.3,0.3}
\definecolor{StringColor}{rgb}{0.4,0.22.0}

\lstdefinelanguage{JavaScript}{
  keywords={typeof, new, true, false, catch, function, return, null, catch, switch, var, if, in, while, do, else, case, break, this},
  sensitive=false,
  comment=[l]{//},
  morecomment=[s]{/*}{*/},
  morestring=[b]',
  morestring=[b]"
}

% create a new environment for source code blocks
\lstnewenvironment{codeblock}[1][]
{
\lstset{
	language=Java,
	upquote=true,
	basicstyle=\color{black}\codefont\codesize,
	keywordstyle=\color{KeywordColor}\codefont\codesize,
	commentstyle=\color{CommentColor}\commentfont\normalsize,
	stringstyle=\color{StringColor}\codefont\codesize,
	aboveskip=10pt,
	belowskip=0pt,
	showstringspaces=false,
	tabsize=3,
	showtabs=false,
	columns=fullflexible,
	flexiblecolumns=true,
	breaklines=true
}\lstset{#1}}
{}

% command for typesetting inline code
\newcommand{\code}[2][language=java]{%
\lstset{%
	language=Java,
	upquote=true,
	basicstyle=\color{black}\codefont\codesize,
	keywordstyle=\color{black}\codefont\codesize,
	commentstyle=\color{black}\commentfont\normalsize,
	stringstyle=\color{black}\codefont\codesize,
	showstringspaces=false,
	showtabs=false
}%
\mbox{\lstinline[#1]!#2!}}

% centre command that won't add any vertical space before or after
\newcommand{\centre}[1]{\hfill#1\hfill}

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%% figures                                                                   %%
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

% PDF tex graphics extensions
\DeclareGraphicsExtensions{.jpg,.jpeg,.pdf,.png}

% command for figures with captions - first param is scale.
\newcommand{\captionedfig}[3] {
  \begin{figure}[H]
    \begin{center}
      \includegraphics[scale=#1,draft=false]{#2}
		\\
		#3
		\vspace{-25pt}
    \end{center}
  \end{figure}
}

% command for figures - first param is scale.
\newcommand{\fig}[2] {
  \begin{figure}[H]
    \begin{center}
      \includegraphics[scale=#1,draft=false]{#2}
		\vspace{-25pt}
    \end{center}
  \end{figure}
}

% command for figures rotated 90 degrees right - first param is scale.
\newcommand{\rotatedfig}[2] {
  \begin{figure}[H]
    \begin{center}
      \includegraphics[scale=#1,draft=false, angle=270]{#2}
    \end{center}
  \end{figure}
}

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%% lists                                                                     %%
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

% fix the extra spacing that itemize/enumerate has when you put have an blank
% line prior to the environment (paralist).
\setlength{\pltopsep}{0.2\baselineskip}
\setlength{\plpartopsep}{-0.2\baselineskip}
\setlength{\plitemsep}{0.2\baselineskip}
\setlength{\plparsep}{0.4\baselineskip}

% use paralist compact versions by default so that above tweaks are used
\renewenvironment{itemize}%
  {\begin{compactitem}}%
  {\end{compactitem}}

\renewenvironment{enumerate}%
  {\begin{compactenum}}%
  {\end{compactenum}}

% rationalise the bullet points
\def\labelitemi{\footnotesize$\bullet$}
\def\labelitemii{\footnotesize$\circ$}
\def\labelitemiii{\footnotesize$\diamond$}

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%% to-do notes                                                               %%
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

% fix todonotes 'wrong margin' issue
\reversemarginpar
\newcommand{\fix}{\todo[color=red!60,noline,size=\large]{Fix}}
\newcommand{\comment}[1]{\todo[color=yellow!60,inline,size=\large]{#1}}
\newcommand{\incomplete}{\todo[color=red!60,inline,size=\large]{Incomplete}}

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%% misc                                                                      %%
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

% a simpler way of getting a right arrow
\newcommand{\ra}[0]{$\rightarrow$~}

\documentclass[a4paper, 12pt, pdftex]{article}

\usepackage{cmap} % attempt to fix search with ligatures problem.

\usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}
\usepackage[pdftex, a4paper, portrait, left=20mm, right=20mm, top=30mm, bottom=25mm]{geometry}
\usepackage[pdftex, bookmarks, colorlinks=false]{hyperref}

\usepackage{paralist}
\usepackage{pslatex}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage{hhline}
\usepackage[usenames]{xcolor}
\usepackage{pdfpages}

% font stuff
\usepackage[scaled]{beramono}  % code font
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}  % might fix copy-pasting issues
\usepackage[protrusion=true,expansion=true]{microtype}
\usepackage{textcomp}

\usepackage{listings}

\usepackage{sectsty}   % easily change section style
\allsectionsfont{\raggedright\sffamily\bfseries}

\usepackage{titlesec}  % allows adjustment of section spacing
\titlespacing{\section}{0pt}{0.75\parskip}{-0.25\parskip}
\titlespacing{\subsection}{0pt}{0.75\parskip}{-0.25\parskip}
\titlespacing{\subsubsection}{0pt}{0.75\parskip}{-0.25\parskip}
\titlespacing{\paragraph}{0pt}{0.75\parskip}{-0.25\parskip}

% repurpose \paragraph as \subsubsubsection (which is sort of is already)
\titleformat{\paragraph}{\normalfont\normalsize\sffamily\bfseries}{\theparagraph}{1em}{}
\titlespacing{\paragraph}{0pt}{0.75\parskip}{-0.25\parskip}
\newcommand{\subsubsubsection}[1]{\paragraph{#1}}

% PDF tex graphics extensions
\DeclareGraphicsExtensions{.jpg,.jpeg,.pdf,.png,.mps}

% font size for code
\def\thesize{11truept}

% relax the justification/hyphenation wrapping settings
\tolerance=800
\emergencystretch=15mm

% kill the paragraph indenting
\setlength{\parindent}{0 mm}
\setlength{\parskip}{0.7\baselineskip}

% create the fonts for code highlighting
\newcommand\codesize{\fontsize{11}{8}\selectfont}
\newcommand{\codefont}{\fontfamily{fvm}\selectfont}
\newcommand{\commentfont}{\rmfamily\itshape}

% define the colors for code highlighting (based on NetBeans colors)
\definecolor{KeywordColor}{rgb}{0.0,0,0.9}
\definecolor{CommentColor}{rgb}{0.39,0.39,0.39}
\definecolor{StringColor}{rgb}{0.41,0.24.0}

% command for typesetting inline code
\newcommand{\code}[2][language=java]{%
\lstset{%
	language=Java,
	upquote=true,
	basicstyle=\color{black}\codefont\normalsize,
	keywordstyle=\color{KeywordColor}\codefont\normalsize,
	commentstyle=\color{CommentColor}\commentfont\normalsize,
	stringstyle=\color{StringColor}\codefont\normalsize,
	showstringspaces=false,
	showtabs=false
}%
\mbox{\lstinline[#1]!#2!}}

% centre command that won't add any vertical space before or after
\newcommand{\centre}[1]{\hfill#1\hfill}

% new indent command that doesn't rely on \parindent
\renewcommand{\indent}{\hspace*{5 mm}}

% make \emph do italics (just in case other environments make it do something else)
\renewcommand{\emph}[1]{\textit{#1}}

% a simpler way of getting a right arrow
\newcommand{\ra}[0]{$\rightarrow$~}

% a command for padding out a page
\newcommand{\pad}[0]{\vspace{\stretch{1}}}

% command for adding a placeholder for information to be entered at a later date
\newcommand{\fixme}[1]{\textcolor{red}{\textbf{TO DO:~ }#1}}
\newcommand{\todo}[1]{\fixme{#1}}

% fix the extra spacing that itemize/enumerate has when you put have an blank
% line prior to the environment.
\setlength{\pltopsep}{0.2\baselineskip}
\setlength{\plpartopsep}{-0.2\baselineskip}
\setlength{\plitemsep}{0.2\baselineskip}
\setlength{\plparsep}{0.4\baselineskip}

\renewenvironment{itemize}%
  {\begin{compactitem}}%
  {\end{compactitem}}

\renewenvironment{enumerate}%
  {\begin{compactenum}}%
  {\end{compactenum}}

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