custom.sty

\newcommand{\tbf}{\textbf}
\renewcommand{\rm}{\textrm}
\renewcommand{\b}{\pmb}
\renewcommand{\d}{{\rm d}}

\newcommand{\Ty}{{\textit{Thank you} }}
\newcommand{\ty}{{\textit{thank you} }}

% Don't add extraneous bibliography entries to the table of contents!
% They're not even indented correctly...
\newcommand\myputbib[1]{%
    \addtocontents{toc}{\protect\setcounter{tocdepth}{-1}}
    \putbib[#1]
    \addtocontents{toc}{\protect\setcounter{tocdepth}{1}}
}

\newcommand{\mypublishedas}[2]{
    \begin{bibunit}
        \renewcommand{\bibsection}{}
        \renewcommand{\bibnumfmt}[1]{}
        \nocite{#2}\myputbib{#1}
    \end{bibunit}
}

% Definitions stolen from aastex
\newcommand\ion[2]{#1$\;${%
\ifx\@currsize\normalsize\small \else
\ifx\@currsize\small\footnotesize \else
\ifx\@currsize\footnotesize\scriptsize \else
\ifx\@currsize\scriptsize\tiny \else
\ifx\@currsize\large\normalsize \else
\ifx\@currsize\Large\large
\fi\fi\fi\fi\fi\fi
\rmfamily\@Roman{#2}}\relax}%

\newcommand\arcdeg{\mbox{$^\circ$}}% 
\newcommand\arcmin{\mbox{$^\prime$}}% 
\newcommand\arcsec{\mbox{$^{\prime\prime}$}}%

% For algorithms
\usepackage[noend]{algpseudocode}
\newcommand*\Let[2]{\State #1 $\gets$ #2}
\algrenewcommand\algorithmicrequire{\textbf{Precondition:}}
\algrenewcommand\algorithmicensure{\textbf{Postcondition:}}

% Math operators
\DeclareMathOperator{\argmin}{argmin}
\DeclareMathOperator{\tr}{tr}

% Formatting for the TOC
\renewcommand{\cftchapterfont}{\normalfont\bfseries}% titles in bold
\renewcommand{\cftchapterpagefont}{\normalfont\bfseries}% page numbers in bold
\renewcommand{\cftchapterleader}{\hfill}% dot leaders in bold
\setlength{\cftbeforechapterskip}{1em}

% Witty epigraphs
\setlength\epigraphwidth{.8\textwidth}
\setlength\epigraphrule{0pt}
\newcommand{\myepigraph}[2]{\epigraph{\Large\itshape``#1''}{\large ---#2}}

% Add a blank page
\newcommand{\blankpage}{
    \newpage
    \thispagestyle{empty}
    \mbox{}
    \newpage
}

% Tikz definitions
\tikzset{
    base/.style = {text width=3cm, text centered,},
    node/.style = {base, draw, minimum height=1.5cm, fill=white, semithick, scale=0.8},
    process/.style = {node, rectangle, fill=black!15},
    data/.style = {node, rectangle, rounded corners},
    line/.style = {draw, semithick, color=black!90},
    arrow/.style = {line, -to},
    arrow-dashed/.style = {arrow, dashed},
    % styles for drawing lines with 2 elbows
    -|-/.style={
        to path={
            (\tikztostart) -| ($(\tikztostart)!#1!(\tikztotarget)$) |- (\tikztotarget)
            \tikztonodes
        }
    },
    -|-/.default=0.5,
    |-|/.style={
        to path={
            (\tikztostart) |- ($(\tikztostart)!#1!(\tikztotarget)$) -| (\tikztotarget)
            \tikztonodes
        }
    },
    |-|/.default=0.5,
}