Adding vertical and horizontal dashed lines to array{} and tabular{} enviroments in LaTex

Adding vertical and horizontal dashed lines to array{} and tabular{} environments in LaTeX:

arydshln Package

http://www.ctan.org/pkg/arydshln

A related question:

How to add vertical and horizontal dashed lines in array and tabular enviroments?

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/122301/how-to-add-vertical-and-horizontal-dashed-lines-in-array-and-tabular-enviroments

PDFlatex when submitting to journal servers

If you are using PDFLaTeX for your paper, and want to submit it to EES servers of Elsevier (for Pattern Recognition or other journals), you need to put these 5 lines at the beginning of your LaTeX file:

%&pdflatex

\documentclass[review,preprint,12pt]{elsarticle}

% \biboptions{sort&compress} % natbib is loaded by default

\pdfoutput=1

\pdfoptionpdfminorversion=5%

The first line is commented but will be used. The third line can be uncommented, if you want the references be sorted according to their appearance in the paper.

And, it is important that these line do not go beyond the first-5 lines of the file.

Error using fit Too many input arguments. (How to solve)

The problem was that fit.m function of the Matlab Curvefit toolbox was shadowed by the other fit.m functions of the other Matlab toolboxes. Here, there is a solution with minimal intervention (no filename or no on-the-fly path correction is required). A new function handle is assigned to the fit.m function of the Matlab Curvefit toolbox. The solution is based on the discussions in the links below, and the credit goes to the contributors to those discussions.

The solution:

% first locate the correct fit.m of the Matlab Curvefit toolbox 
current_pwd = pwd;
cd([[matlabroot, '\toolbox\curvefit\curvefit']])
exist('fit', 'file');
org_curvefit_fit = str2func('fit');
cd(current_pwd)
% use it
CDF_for_fit = fittype('a*(x-b)');
paramhat = org_curvefit_fit(t_0, CDF_empirical, CDF_for_fit, ...
    'StartPoint', [5.6, 1.5], 'Lower', [0, 0], 'Robust', 'LAR');


Links:

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/newsreader/view_thread/264354

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/208

FOR loops, Basic syntax

http://www.robvanderwoude.com/for.php

"SpellCheckPlus" is a grammar checker that finds common spelling errors and grammatical mistakes in English.

http://spellcheckplus.com/

Problems with \ref when using soul for highlighting in LaTeX

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/23307/problems-with-ref-when-using-soul-for-highlighting

Enclosing the \ref{x} in { } works.

ThousandSep() function for Matlab

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/5386-how-to-show-full-numbers-as-labels-in-the-y-axis-of-a-plot