I just installed Adobe Reader on my new computer, only to discover that it hijacked the PDF preview window in TextMate when working on LaTeX documents. This also happened the last time I installed a new system, and I couldn’t remember what I did to change it back to using Preview as the default PDF viewer. After googling around, I remembered that TextMate is just using the regular browser settings when it comes to displaying PDF files....
I am working on some plots in Matlab, where I am using the filename as the title of the plot. In many of the files I am using underscores (_) as separator, and the result is that Matlab creates a subscript. So for a file called b_staccato_004, I get a title bstaccato004. After some googling I found that this is because Matlab per default treats such text strings as LaTeX code....
I am about to submit an article for review, and had to format in a special way. Here is a quick summary of what I did: No paragraph indents: \setlength{\parindent}{0in} but a single line between: \usepackage{parskip} Left text justification: \begin{flushleft} ... \end{flushleft} Double spacing: \renewcommand{\baselinestretch}{2}
I have been using LaTeX for most of my more advanced writing needs for so many years, that I tend to forget that there are so few other good options out there for writing what could be called “complex” documents, i.e. book-sized documents with a good portion of notes, pictures, links, etc. I just had to help out in trying to create a large document based on 30+ individual documents in MS Word....
I am working on a paper for a journal that only accepts RTF documents, and to avoid the possible problems resulting from converting a LaTeX document into RTF (or possibly from PDF), I decided to try using a word processor from the beginning. For simple word processing I have grown very found of Bean recently, a lightweight application slightly more advanced than TextEdit. I started out with Bean, but since I had to include endnotes in the document I ended up moving over to NeoOffice instead....
Bibdesk is just getting better! In version 1.3.4 they have included searching inside linked PDF files in the library. It is not as powerful as the AI search functionality in DevonThink, but it is still very, very useful. {width=“500”}
After working with TextMate for a couple of weeks, I have decided to stay there and leave TexShop behind for my LaTeX editing. Just found out that it even supports the ctrl-apple-d trick for getting definitions from the Oxford Dictionary in the text.
After being convinced by Tim, I have started using TextMate for text editing things. Right now I am mostly interested in its many nice LaTeX features, and the best so far is that it will create the necessary code when dropping and image into the text. You can’t believe how much time and effort this saves me. Very, very handy!
I spent a couple of minutes trying to figure out how to create a nice tilde (~) for writing the name of Max/MSP externals in LaTeX (e.g. dac~), so I figured I could post the solution in case anyone else wonders. First I tried using \tilde{} and \widetilde{}, but they didn’t look nice. However, this little thing does the trick: $\sim$ I guess you need the math environment to get this working....
I have been wondering how to make a separate bibliography of my own publications as an appendix in my dissertation. Vincent pointed me to multibib and its siblings, and then I came across this FAQ about all the glories of multiple bibliographies. Doesn’t look like the easiest thing to get going, but I’ll dive into it and see if I manage to get out of it successfully.