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...
Read more →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:...
Read more →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....
Read more →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...
Read more →I recently discovered that it is possible to generate PDFs with video/animation included in the file using LaTeX. Works like a charm, but unfortunately the files only work properly in Acrobat (not Preview).
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