Tag Archives: latex

Include Full BibTeX Entry Inside Text

Posted on January 28, 2012 by Lex

This isn’t rocket science, but you can insert BibTeX entries as you go, instead of (dumping all the references at the end in a “References” section. It’s useful when writing many chaotic pages of notes as you crawl through dozens … Continue reading →

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LaTeX and Google Docs

Posted on May 14, 2011 by Lex

I came across a project called latexlab which seeks to develop a web-based LaTeX editor by utilizing the Google docs base editor and Google Web Toolkit. I played around with it for about 30 minutes and am very impressed. You … Continue reading →

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Prevent Figures from Floating Outside Sections in LaTeX

Posted on March 6, 2011 by Lex

LaTeX floats a figure for you as if it was a rotting raft in the middle of a stormy ocean. Most folks learn to tame this beast of burden, but I find that there are times when I need my … Continue reading →

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Ode to Emacs

Posted on February 17, 2011 by Lex

Source: XKCD’s tribute to emacs In a world of beautiful, powerful IDE‘s for programming in C++, Java, PHP, Perl, LaTeX, etc, I still use Emacs. For those that don’t know, Emacs is a editor which God used to program the Universe. … Continue reading →

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