Wednesday, October 29, 2008
I’ve posted the slides (3.1M download!) to my LeGO talk, on my publications page. A bit about how and why, and some technical questions maybe the laziweb will answer for me, after the gap.
I’ve spent a bit of time organising my LaTeX setup for maximal dissertatory efficiency. Mainly I want a system that lets me put definitions somewhere sensible (a thesis.sty package), but also makes it easy to typeset chapters individually to hand around, without duplicating definitions or having to hand-edit files for book or single-chapter output.
I’ve got [...]
Shipping even as we speak, your favourite typesetting engine now has wheels:
Snapped from the train on the way back from Paris. I guess I’ll post photos of that trip at some point too.
Tuesday, September 5, 2006
It’s an awfully simple rule: Don’t put words (of more than one letter) in pure math mode. This should be carved into the monitor of every mathematician and (particularly) computer scientist who ever wrote a paper in LaTeX. Don’t use math mode for words. Don’t (don’t you dare) use math mode for italics.
Why not?
The spacing [...]
Thursday, December 29, 2005
I’ve always used prosper for presentations, but someone recently put me onto beamer, and I must say I’m impressed. It lets you structure your file using standard LaTeX sectioning, and produces section-level tables of contents by default. There are 26 different themes, and an architecture for easy colour-scheme changes and so on. The documentation (beameruserguide.pdf) [...]
Tuesday, December 13, 2005
Keith Reckdahl’s excellent tutorial/reference has been updated. The new title is Using Imported Graphics in LaTeX and pdfLaTeX, and the big update is of course the inclusion of pdfLaTeX.
Even if you never use imported graphics, UIG is possibly worth checking out. The second half describes all the unusual things you can do with LaTeX [...]
This essay comes from my experiences proofreading LaTeX documents,
both semi-professionally and for friends. It is intended mainly for
technical writing, where LaTeX really comes into its own and where
attention to detail can both greatly assist the proofreader or
typesetter, and greatly improve the readability of the
manuscript. This is neither a description of how to use LaTeX nor [...]