19 Dec 10

“Anyone who works with LaTeX knows how time-consuming it can be to find a symbol in symbols-a4.pdf that you just can’t memorize. Detexify is an attempt to simplify this search.”

by mlb 15 years ago

26 Oct 10

MathJax is an open source JavaScript display engine for mathematics that works in all modern browsers.

by mlb 15 years ago

15 Apr 10

Some tips and tricks on using Vim for editing reStructured Text files

by mlb 15 years ago

23 Mar 10

An extensive introduction to the most useful features of LaTeX

by mlb 15 years ago

19 Oct 09

Anyhow, one of the tricks I picked up recently is to write presentations with the combination of org-mode and beamer.

Now, while I am no stranger to LaTeX, especially for writing a quick presentation, it can be a painful to remember the various directives and options. I am not really a daily LaTeX-user, so I tend to forget these things. I am a daily org-mode user though, and org-mode can export to LaTeX (which then, in turn, are translated into PDFs). So why not use org-mode to generate presentations?

by piranha 16 years ago

17 Oct 09

The glossaries package can be used to define terms, symbols and acronyms that can be used throughout a document. You can then use an indexing application to collate and sort the entries that have been used in the document. It is a highly versatile package, but it has a large manual that some beginners find daunting. This article is an introductory guide to help you get started.

by mlb 16 years ago

A quick and easy to understand introduction to the fancyheaders package

by mlb 16 years ago
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07 Oct 08