LaTeX and Beamer — steps to produce a .pdf slide presentation
It will work if you use pdflatex: pdflatex file.tex However, using that method, you cannot include .eps graphics, and bitmap graphics often look bad in your presentation. As an alternative, run: latex...
View ArticleManaging references with CiteULike
I’ve just set up an acount with www.citeulike.org to keep track of papers. Speaking from my first impressions, here are some advantages and disadvantages: Advantages: Clear and intuitive layout Can...
View ArticleConference posters using LaTeX
I produce my conference posters using LaTeX. Here are a few notes on how to do it. This is in the preamble of my document (let’s say poster.tex), for a landscape formatted poster on A0 paper:...
View ArticleDia: exporting to eps with fonts that scale well
I use Dia to produce diagrams that I then include in LaTeX documents. I export them to .eps (encapsulated postscript) file format. If your diagram contains fonts and they look ugly (ragged) in the...
View ArticleLocal texmf for LaTeX packages in /home/
I told you this blog is my outsourced memory :) I can put packages in my home directory at ~/texmf/tex/latex/, and into subdirectories of that dir. Then, say: texhash This will complain that it can’t...
View ArticleLaTeX: Figure captions in landscape dvi
I want to include horizontally (landscape) oriented pages in a LaTeX document; to do that I use \usepackage{lscape}. Then: Some normal text \begin{landscape} Some text that should be oriented...
View ArticleUsing the LaTeX landscape package for a plot/ figure in Sweave
I’ve started using Sweave and immediately ran into a problem. I had a wide figure to include (actually, a plot that combined several plots in R using the layout command). I had used the lscape package...
View ArticleMikTeX package manager for Linux
One of the few things I really missed when I switched from Windows to Linux was MikTeX, since it makes installation of LaTeX packages very easy, where Linux makes you jump through hoops. So I’m...
View ArticleEmacs with ESS and AucTeX on Windows
I will have to use MS Windows for my new job, at least some of the time. I’ll put related posts in a new “MS Windows” category. If you use R, you most likely want ESS (Emacs Speaks Statistics) for your...
View ArticleSmall hyperref error solved
For the record. I got an error running hyperref: Paragraph ended before \Hy@setref@link was complete This was due to having a regulare closing parenthesis directly after the curly bracket that closed a...
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