Latex Beamer

http://www.math-linux.com has provided a blog posting telling us How to make a presentation with Latex – Introduction to Beamer. Which is useful if you want to do that. Now I know how to use columns, Woohoo!

Equations in graphics editor, LaTeX/Inkscape

Graphics editor Inkscape can understand Latex equations, using a plugin. This plugin seems pretty standard, it was installed in the inkscape version that is installed by debian package manager (debian squeeze). A message came on the screen the first time, and asked me to install a dependency (python-lxml) after that it works…. I can have [...]

Detextify – Find latex symbols

This website (http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html) is really useful if you don’t know the markup/command for the LaTex symbol you want to write. Provided you are able to draw it. The website talks about the software learning how to recognise the symbols so I guess it is using some neural network scheme.

Optimising your pdf file – latex dvips ps2pdf

For those wanting to distribute latex documents in pdf file format, it is possible to leave all optimisation of the file to the last step. latex command generates dvi file. dvips command generates ps file ps2pdf command generates pdf file. ps2pdf has a lot of possible options for file optimisation. The option -dPDFSETTINGS= provides several [...]

David Mackay on Latex

David MacKay has been interviewed by TUG (Tex Users Group), in interview dated to February 2009. Check it out if you are a fan of David or LaTeX. David Says; LaTeX is the typesetting program to use in scientific publishing. David MacKay’s website has some LaTeX stuff. Looks like David MacKay FRS also has a [...]