Category: latex
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the beauty of LaTeX
I recently found a very nice site about the beauty of LaTeX. It does a close comparison of the type of output you get with LaTeX as opposed to what you normally get with a program like Microsoft Word. There is also another nice article that it links to near the bottom comparing hyphenation using…
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web + print frustrations
Sometimes one wants to write a document that can be viewed both in print form and on the web. From my experiences so far, there does not yet exist a good way to do this from one document. I have tried several different methods, each with its own set of complications. I have not given…
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Extreme TeX
While doing some searching around the internet for stuff about LaTeX, I ran across this snippet from a page on latex from stanford The example is from the infamous David Carlisle, illustrating how much one can automate using TeX (plain TeX, not LaTeX). If you are in for a fun little surprise, copy the text…
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mediawiki and latex.fmt
Lately I have been fooling around with wikis and CMSes. As minister of technology for my friend Danny (basically I give him space on this server), I was commissioned by his fiancee Bethany to set up a wiki. I did a little more searching around on wikis, and decided on mediawiki. I also looked at…