• Posts Tagged ‘LaTeX’

    Compact bibliography list in LaTeX

    by  • Wednesday 2 November 2011 • Research • 0 Comments

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    I have already written about how to compact lists earlier today. Now is the time to compact the bibliography… This is how the regular bibliography in LaTeX looks like: First I found a suggestion to use the setspace function, but it turns out that it is much easier to just use the bibsep option to [...]

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    Compact lists in LaTeX

    by  • Wednesday 2 November 2011 • Research • 0 Comments

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    I have for a long time been struggling with making lists more compact in LaTeX. While the standard lists often look good, as seen in the example below, there are times when space limits, etc. makes it necessary to save some space. Up until now I have been using things like the rather ugly \vspace{-7pt} command [...]

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    Using MultiMarkDown

    by  • Thursday 30 June 2011 • Software • 1 Comment

    I tend to move between different computers/devices and OSes all the time, and have started to become very tired of storing text data in different formats that are either not compatible or tend to mess up the formatting between different applications (e.g. RTF files). To avoid this I am now testing to write all my [...]

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    Remove chapter and part text from LaTeX documents

    by  • Wednesday 4 May 2011 • Research • 1 Comment

    When using the \part and \chapter tags in LaTeX you will typically end up with parts and chapters that say “part” and “chapter” before the name you have written. Putting these lines in your preamble will remove this: \renewcommand{\partname}{} \renewcommand{\chaptername}{} \renewcommand{\thechapter}{} \renewcommand{\thesection}{}

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    Use Preview instead of Adobe Reader in Texmate

    by  • Monday 18 April 2011 • Software • 0 Comments

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    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 [...]

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