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Quick LaTeX posters
Quick and dirty, I was going to write, but the output is quite nice, actually.
My advice, in a nutshell: use the a0poster class. Then, modify the poster.tex file in Andrea’s site.
Acentos, latin1, utf-8, LaTeX…
Otra entrada en español, sobre un asunto que lleva tiempo dándome guerra. En algún momento, linux fue cambiando de la codificación de caracteres (encoding) latin1 al estándar actual, utf-8.
Como resultado, los documentos en texto, sobre todo las famosas “fuentes LaTeX, que nunca hay que cambiar porque son texto” pueden cambiar después de todo (a efectos [...]
Get your units right with LaTeX
The LaTeX package SIunits (which seems to be a descendant from the units package that I once used) addresses one of the most nagging issues in physics and engineering: getting the units well typeset. While the source is a bit cumbersome, it is quite readable:
$R=8.314$ \joule\per(\mole\usk\kelvin)
There are prefixes, so that “\mega\ohm” is ok. Many ready-to-use [...]
The typography nazi + LaTeX
That’s right, typography über alles. A nice article on receding hairline exposes some common typographic mistakes, and how to fix them. I was aware of some of them, and I think I know how to fix them in LaTeX:
Use “ and ” for quotes, always. emacs does this automatically, if in tex mode!
‘ should do [...]
Math fonts for (La)TeX
How could I have overlooked this Survey of Free Math Fonts for TeX and LaTeX! An excellent read, it shows the author has himself been involved in font design. As I mentioned in my entry on XeTeX, it is great to have many fonts for text (and XeTeX really takes a leap forward in this [...]
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Today, I had the strange experience of rendering a LaTeX source producing a pdf with a perfect verdana font. Simply by including some lines in the header of the source (“preamble”), then invoking xelatex.After struggling with fonts in TeX for years, it seems like a miracle that the mere invocation of a font’s name “just [...]
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The google search for the sequence above returns some disturbing webpages. Anyway, for future reference here is how to define a new operator to correctly print out “sen” instead of “sin” in LaTeX formulas:
\newcommand{\sen}{\operatorname{\sen}}
Spanish version of this entry: Buscar la secuencia que da título a esta entrada en google proporciona una serie de enlaces algo [...]
Beamer for latex
Incredible presentations in LaTeX!
Those of us used to LaTeX know of its incredible performance, but also of its limitations. It being a typesetting program, it basically does what it wants with your input. Thus, it is in principle hard to apply to obvious wysiwyg situations, such as posters (some other entry!) and presentations. Nevertheless, some [...]
Publishing struggles
A brief history of how I ended up in WordPress.
HTML editors I’ve tried:
vi/vim (that’s right)
emacs
mozilla SeaMonkey
nvu
quanta plus
aptana
… so, they get more and more involved, while I have less and less time to learn html coding! Next, I tried Joomla!, excellent software to build a website. Together with xampp you can have a website running in [...]
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