A master Latex template with many useful packages

master-template.tex

\documentclass[12pt]{article}

% math typesetting
\usepackage{array, amsmath, amssymb, amsfonts}

% layout control
\usepackage[paper=a4paper,left=25mm,right=25mm,top=20mm,bottom=25mm]{geometry}
\usepackage[onehalfspacing]{setspace}
\setlength{\parskip}{.5em}
\usepackage{rotating}
\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{parallel}
\usepackage{parcolumns}

% tables, list
\usepackage{tabularx, booktabs, multicol, multirow, longtable}
\usepackage{enumitem} %no space bewteen item \begin{itemize}[noitemsep]

% graphics stuff
\usepackage[usenames,dvipsnames]{xcolor}
\usepackage{subfig, graphicx, tikz}
\usepackage[space]{grffile} % allows us to specify directories that have spaces
\usepackage[section]{placeins} % prevents floats from moving past a \FloatBarrier or section
% \usepackage{pgfplots}
\graphicspath{ {../graph/} }

% Game theory graphics
\usepackage{epsfig, subfigure, subfloat, graphicx}
\usepackage{anysize, indentfirst, setspace}
\usepackage{verbatim, rotating, paralisthan}
\usepackage{caption, hanging}
\usepackage{pstricks, sgamevar, egameps}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{shapes,arrows,backgrounds,decorations.pathmorphing,decorations.pathreplacing}
% These are the key packages.  There is also sgame instead of sgamevar, but it doesn't work with beamer or other macros.
% The dcolumn package interferes with these, so you need to remove it from your preamble.
\newcommand{\mc}[1]{\multicolumn{1}{c}{#1}}
% I believe this is a command that the package wants to use, though not sure what it's doing and this document seems to compile ok without it, so who knows.
% Note: If you include any extensive form games, you need to compile it in the special 3-step way (in WinEDT): LaTeX, dvi->ps, ps->pdf.

% bibliography
\usepackage{natbib}
\bibpunct{(}{)}{;}{a}{}{,}
\usepackage{setspace}

% misc (used often)
\usepackage{times} % Use Times font
\usepackage[colorlinks=true, allcolors=MidnightBlue]{hyperref}

% misc (used rarely)
\usepackage{animate}
\usepackage{boxedminipage}

% Including External Code
\usepackage{verbatim, listings}
\lstset{
  language=R,
	basicstyle=\scriptsize\ttfamily,
	commentstyle=\ttfamily\color{gray},
	numbers=left,
	numberstyle=\ttfamily\color{gray}\footnotesize,
	stepnumber=1,
	numbersep=5pt,
	backgroundcolor=\color{white},
	showspaces=false,
	showstringspaces=false,
	showtabs=false,
	frame=single,
	tabsize=2,
	captionpos=b,
	breaklines=true,
	breakatwhitespace=false,
	title=\lstname,
	escapeinside={},
	keywordstyle={},
	morekeywords={}
	}

\usepackage{caption}
\DeclareCaptionFont{white}{\color{white}}
\DeclareCaptionFormat{listing}{\colorbox{gray}{\parbox{\textwidth}{#1#2#3}}}
\captionsetup[lstlisting]{format=listing,labelfont=white,textfont=white}

% -------------------- title -------------------- %

\title{Title 1\\
        Title 2}
\author{Anh Le - Duke University}
\date{}

\setlength{\headheight}{15pt}
\setlength{\headsep}{20pt}
\pagestyle{fancyplain}

\fancyhf{}

\lhead{\fancyplain{}{Anh Le}}
\chead{\fancyplain{}{Center header title}}
\rhead{\fancyplain{}{\today}}
\rfoot{\fancyplain{}{\thepage}}

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% DOCUMENT %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

% \doublespacing

\begin{document}
\maketitle

\newpage
\thispagestyle{plain}

\begin{spacing}{0.1}
\tableofcontents
\end{spacing}

\begin{spacing}{0.1}
\listoffigures
\end{spacing}

\begin{tabular}{ll}
\centering
\toprule
blah & blah \\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}
\captionof{table}{Posterior mean and 95\% CI}

\end{document} 

master-template.tex.bak

\documentclass[12pt]{article}

% math typesetting
\usepackage{array, amsmath, amssymb, amsfonts}

% layout control
\usepackage[paper=a4paper,left=25mm,right=25mm,top=20mm,bottom=25mm]{geometry}
\usepackage[onehalfspacing]{setspace}
\setlength{\parskip}{.5em}
\usepackage{rotating}
\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{parallel}
\usepackage{parcolumns}

% tables, list
\usepackage{tabularx, booktabs, multicol, multirow, longtable}
\usepackage{enumitem} %no space bewteen item \begin{itemize}[noitemsep]

% graphics stuff
\usepackage[usenames,dvipsnames]{xcolor}
\usepackage{subfig, graphicx, tikz}
\usepackage[space]{grffile} % allows us to specify directories that have spaces
\usepackage[section]{placeins} % prevents floats from moving past a \FloatBarrier or section
% \usepackage{pgfplots}
\graphicspath{ {../graph/} }

% Game theory graphics
\usepackage{epsfig, subfigure, subfloat, graphicx}
\usepackage{anysize, indentfirst, setspace}
\usepackage{verbatim, rotating, paralisthan}
\usepackage{caption, hanging}
\usepackage{pstricks, sgamevar, egameps}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{shapes,arrows,backgrounds,decorations.pathmorphing,decorations.pathreplacing}
% These are the key packages.  There is also sgame instead of sgamevar, but it doesn't work with beamer or other macros.
% The dcolumn package interferes with these, so you need to remove it from your preamble.
\newcommand{\mc}[1]{\multicolumn{1}{c}{#1}}
% I believe this is a command that the package wants to use, though not sure what it's doing and this document seems to compile ok without it, so who knows.
% Note: If you include any extensive form games, you need to compile it in the special 3-step way (in WinEDT): LaTeX, dvi->ps, ps->pdf.

% bibliography
\usepackage{natbib}
\bibpunct{(}{)}{;}{a}{}{,}
\usepackage{setspace}

% misc (used often)
\usepackage{times} % Use Times font
\usepackage[colorlinks=true, allcolors=MidnightBlue]{hyperref}

% misc (used rarely)
\usepackage{animate}
\usepackage{boxedminipage}

% Including External Code
\usepackage{verbatim, listings}
\lstset{
  language=R,
	basicstyle=\scriptsize\ttfamily,
	commentstyle=\ttfamily\color{gray},
	numbers=left,
	numberstyle=\ttfamily\color{gray}\footnotesize,
	stepnumber=1,
	numbersep=5pt,
	backgroundcolor=\color{white},
	showspaces=false,
	showstringspaces=false,
	showtabs=false,
	frame=single,
	tabsize=2,
	captionpos=b,
	breaklines=true,
	breakatwhitespace=false,
	title=\lstname,
	escapeinside={},
	keywordstyle={},
	morekeywords={}
	}

\usepackage{caption}
\DeclareCaptionFont{white}{\color{white}}
\DeclareCaptionFormat{listing}{\colorbox{gray}{\parbox{\textwidth}{#1#2#3}}}
\captionsetup[lstlisting]{format=listing,labelfont=white,textfont=white}

% -------------------- title -------------------- %

\title{Title 1\\
        Title 2}
\author{Anh Le - Duke University}
\date{}

\setlength{\headheight}{15pt}
\setlength{\headsep}{20pt}
\pagestyle{fancyplain}

\fancyhf{}

\lhead{\fancyplain{}{Anh Le}}
\chead{\fancyplain{}{Center header title}}
\rhead{\fancyplain{}{\today}}
\rfoot{\fancyplain{}{\thepage}}

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% DOCUMENT %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

% \doublespacing

\begin{document}
\maketitle

\newpage
\thispagestyle{plain}

\begin{spacing}{0.1}
\tableofcontents
\end{spacing}

\begin{spacing}{0.1}
\listoffigures
\end{spacing}

\end{document}