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\setlength{\parskip}{5\parskip} seems to have no effect. Is there a way to achieve the intended effect?

Why use \newsavebox, \usebox, \savebox when \newcommand seems to do the job too?

\newsavebox, \usebox, and \savebox :
% Create the holders we will need for our work
\newlength{\mytitleheight}
\newsavebox{\mytitletext}
% Create the reference text for measures
\savebox{\mytitletext}{%
\Large ...

I'm creating a document for presentation (beamer) and one of the things required for beauty reason is that there should not be too much empty space at the bottom or at the top of each slide. So I add \vspace manually like this:

\begin{frame}
\begin{definition}
\begin{itemize}
\item blah blah ...

Both of Google Scholar and Mathscinet support BibTeX import. BibTeX items imported from Google Scholar have worked fine for me so far.

Items imported from Mathscinet usually have more fields, but I'm not using it because I haven't figured out how to prevent MRNUMBERs from showing up in the output ...

According to BiBTeX comment, one writes comments by using @Comment command or writing a comment outside an entry, it never mentions the percent sign %.

I always thought every line starting with % is a comment in BiBTeX. Is there some gotcha if one continues to use % for comments?

Some LaTeX codes I've seen have percent signs at the end of some lines. What does it do?

Here's an example in the KOMA-Script manual (look at the end of the second line).

What commands should I put in the preamble in order to get larger than normal size text?


Background:

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\Large
blah blah blah
\end{document}

Putting \Large right after \begin{document} like above works. All texts in the document is large as I wanted.
But ...

Is there a reliable document class suited for viewing your drafts on screen display as opposed to printing it on physical papers? I think a document class with small margins or no margins and big fonts would be good for screen reading.


Background:

I'm doing the following cycle when I am writing ...

I've learned that the structure of ~/texmf should be like other texmf trees.


$ locate '.bib'
...
/usr/share/texmf-texlive/bibtex/bib/minitoc/fminitoc.bib
/usr/share/texmf-texlive/bibtex/bib/minitoc/minitoc.bib
/usr/share/texmf-texlive/bibtex/bib/minitoc/mtc-add.bib
/usr/share/texmf-texlive/bibtex ...

I have a tex file called my-include.tex that need to be shared by a lot of my papers.
my-include.tex contains things like:

\newcommand{\abs}[1]{\left\vert #1 \right\vert}
\newcommand{\set}[1]{\left\{ #1 \right\}}

I put my-include.tex on the directory ~/texmf/tex/latex/ so that i can add ...