LaTeX
My USB Memory Stick Companion
I have a Kingston Data Traveler 4 GB USB Drive, and a few days ago I decided to use it also as a rescue boot device (to be bootable in order to recover data when needed), as storage device (to move around some files, used on windows, mac, linux, freebsd), to have on it some [...]
Using LaTeX in Scribus for posters
I am using LaTeX and beamer class to make presentations and posters. A short introduction to start with latex is available. Sometimes I am using LaTeX just to produce eps/pdf text boxes and after that Scribus for poster layout. In the last development version of Scribus, which is 1.3.5svn, there is possible to use latex [...]
Software I am using …
If you would like to see what software I am using on my desktop, laptop, workstation (Windows, Linux, Unix) in order to get my research/scientific work done, or if you want to know what software I am installing on my servers for customers, check this section of my website.
LaTeX useful Tips/Tricks
In my previous post I discussed a “small” but, I would say “complet” template to start your document. If you want to include also movies in your pdf documents, then this post can help you. If you need a good program for bibliographic management check this post.
Below I will post a lot of tips, tricks [...]
Starting with LaTeX/PdfTeX, a small template
Just a short template with some packages included:
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\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
% let’s use some nice packages
\usepackage{times}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{amsmath}
% set all margins to 2.5 cm
\usepackage[margin=2.5cm]{geometry}
% for fancy and easy modification of header and footer
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
% include hyperlinks in pdf file
\usepackage{hyperref}
% decide if run PdfTeX or LaTeX
\ifx\pdfoutput\undefined
% we are running LaTeX, not pdflatex
\usepackage{graphicx}
\else
% we are running pdflatex, so convert .eps files to .pdf
\usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}
\usepackage{epstopdf}
\fi
% [...]
Personal bibliographic management software
Handling references and bibliographic information is an essential part of all research. If you are writing just one article or just your diploma thesis maybe you don’t need to use this kind of software because you will not have a lot of references. BUT, if you are writing A LOT of [...]
Animations in PDF using LaTeX
I am using LaTeX (started with LaTeX 2.09, followed by LaTeX 3e) for everything technical and scientific (reports, articles, master/diploma thesis, presentations – yes, I am preparing my presentation with it, posters, letters, ..). In the last year I changed to pdfTeX in order to obtain directly pdf file output without intermediate steps like [...]
LaTeX with Eclipse IDE running on Windows Vista
Usually for Java stuff I am using Eclipse IDE.
I am also a LaTeX user and under Windows I am using MikTeX. More about which applications I am using in a next post.
As text editors, of course you can use vim/gvim (with vim-latex plugin), emacs (with AucTeX), TexnicCenter (a free windows application) or Kile (KDE aplication [...]
