I had a discussion about which software tools I use for my research, so here is a list of the most important (in no particular order): Firefox: with adblock and mouse gestures. NetNewsWire: for handling all the blogs I am reading. MarsEdit: to write blog entries. Publishes directly to my WordPress driven blog. OmniGraffle: for making diagrams. I even made my last conference poster with this program, works great also with photos....
As my dissertation draft grows bigger (and messier…), I see that I need to restrict the depth of the Table of Contents. These lines do the trick: \setcounter{tocdepth}{1} \tableofcontents First I tried to use tocdepth 2, but that gave me three levels. I guess this is because it counts the chapter level as 0. I have also been wondering why the bibliography hasn’t shown up in the table of contents. I haven’t found an explanation, but the solution is this:...
I have received a number of Word attachments recently. Nowadays, I only touch MS Word when I am forced to by other people, as I rely on TextWrangler, TextEdit, OpenOffice and LaTex for my various text related activities. I started to summarize why I think people should avoid Word, especially as e-mail attchments, but then I found some web pages with more well-thought and well-rounded arguments: - Manuel M T Chakravarty’s Attachments in Proprietary Formats Considered Harmful...