Category: latex
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My new computer — software
Which operating system? This was kind of a no-brainer. I was definitely not going to buy Windows, so it was going to be Linux. (I did think about something in the bsd family, and might still consider it at some point. I read a nice article comparing linux and bsd recently, which was informative and…
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hyperref and natbib problems
Today I was working on revisions to my dissertation, and I wanted to test something out in my slick two column layout, and was surprised when my document would not compile. After about a half an hour of commenting and uncommenting parts, and seeing the same error over and over again, \pdfendlink ended up in…
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LaTeX two column layouts and rubber lengths
Today I gave my advisor the draft of the final chapter of my dissertation, which I have been working on fervently for the last week or so. I decided that I deserved a little break before getting back to the grindstone of implementing comments from my advisor. I decided to spend some time working on…
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More on LaTeX multimedia presentations
Yesterday I gave a talk in the Linguistics department colloquium series. I like to cover all my bases, so I had a handout and a slide presentation, which were both made from the same LaTeX code. In an earlier post, I briefly discussed using the prosper package for LaTeX to make presentations. A few months…
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umthesis now on CTAN
I just submitted the umthesis package to CTAN. I will of course keep an up to date version on my own server, but now it will be more accessible to others. If you have not checked out CTAN, I highly recommend it. There are many packages of all sorts that will make your TeXing more…