• Posts Tagged ‘LaTeX’

    Multiple bibliographies in LaTeX

    by  • Wednesday 21 February 2007 • Software • 1 Comment

    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...

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    Smart programs

    by  • Thursday 11 January 2007 • Research, Software • 0 Comments

    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:...

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    LaTeX: Table of Contents tricks

    by  • Friday 29 December 2006 • Software • 1 Comment

    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....

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    Word Attachments

    by  • Tuesday 25 April 2006 • Software • 0 Comments

    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...

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