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  1. Seamus Bradley
    Member

    Occasionally I find something I think might be useful or interesting for the PhilTeX readership. Eventually I suppose this will turn into a post on the blog. For now, I'll post links here. I invite you to do the same!

    Here's a nice LaTeX Primer

    Posted 1 year ago #

  2. Seamus Bradley
    Member

    The TeX stack exchange site is out of beta now, with a fancy new redesign.

    Posted 1 year ago #

  3. Kevin Klement
    Key Master

    I especially like the Tengwar (Tolkien/Middle Earth elvish) script in the upper left of the redesign.

    Posted 1 year ago #

  4. Seamus Bradley
    Member

    I put a TeX goodies page on my website. It's just a couple of things that I've thrown together recently that I thought I might as well share. Comments etc welcome.

    In fact, not related to TeX, but suggestions for pedagogical improvements to the essay feedback form much appreciated!

    Posted 1 year ago #

  5. Kevin Klement
    Key Master

    Looks good, Seamus.

    Is this thread a good place to post random tidbits that are too minor for a full blog post or maybe too minor even their own thread?

    Been having fun with this little command. If you have ImageMagick installed, from the command line:

    convert -density 72 -delay 100 input.pdf -loop 0 output.gif

    Will take input.pdf and use it to create an animated gif where each page of the original PDF is a frame in the animation. The density setting sets the resolution, so the larger to you make this, the larger and better quality the animation will be (though of course larger file size, etc.). The delay setting sets the time between frames of the animation (in 100ths of a second, if I recall correctly), and loop sets how many times it should repeat, with 0 meaning infinitely.

    Of course, there's no reason at all that the input needs to have been created with LaTeX, but most of mine are. Works nicely with beamer documents.

    Posted 1 year ago #

  6. Seamus Bradley
    Member

    So... with some ingenuity I could have a draft of my thesis as a screen saver? That sounds... awful.

    Seriously though, that's a neat trick. For timed slide transitions in beamer my option would be to use impressive which is pretty funky.

    Posted 1 year ago #

  7. Seamus Bradley
    Member

    If like me you have a "one sentence per line" convention when writing TeX, converting it back into normal looking plain text can be a little awkward. I had to do this recently, here's how I did it. I'm pretty sure this will be very suboptimal.

    sed 's/$^/NEWLINE/' file.txt | awk '{printf "%s ",$0}' | sed 's/NEWLINE/\n\n/g' > linebreakfile.txt

    What this does is it looks for empty lines, and replaces each occurence of an empty line with "NEWLINE". This modified text is then passed to awk, which prints the whole file with no linebreaks at all. Finally this text is passed back to sed and sed replaces each "NEWLINE" with two new lines. and dumps the output to a new file.

    Posted 1 year ago #

  8. Aldo Antonelli
    Member

    Hey I just took a look at Impressive and it's really cool. I wonder how it works with Beamer-generated slides with overlays. I only tried without the overlays.

    Posted 1 year ago #

  9. Kevin Klement
    Key Master

    The different stages of a beamer overlay are just new pages in PDF, so you probably don't want impressive doing anything too crazy with them.

    Personally, I think fancy transitions are distracting in a real talk where the content is what is important. The only use I can see for fancy transitions would be at something like a display kiosk.

    Some of the other features of impressive are very nice, however.

    I use pdf_presenter_console in my classes personally, which lets me stay one page ahead of the class, and keeps a timer where I can see it (but they can't).

    Posted 1 year ago #

  10. Seamus Bradley
    Member

    If you're going to be using impressive with overlays, you'll want to know about this script which takes the navigation information about the slides, and lets impressive know about it. Important especially for the "tab" feature in impressive (my favourite) which gives you an overview of your slides. Without the makebeamerinfo script, it looks messy with overlays.

    Posted 1 year ago #

  11. Seamus Bradley
    Member

    Another useful snippet: Is your (biblatex) bibliography taking up too much space? \renewcommand\bibfont{\small} will make your bibliography slightly smaller... If you're really desperate, try \renewcommand\bibfont{\scriptsize} (Don't do this, really.)

    Posted 1 year ago #

  12. Seamus Bradley
    Member

    Ever wanted to emulate the philosophy of science style abstract? With thick lines above and below the text? Well, here's a (probably over-complex) solution:

    \usepackage{mdframed}
\renewenvironment{abstract}{\begin{mdframed}[%
    leftline=false,%
    rightline=false,%
    rightmargin=4em,%
    leftmargin=4em,%
    skipbelow=2\baselineskip,%
    skipabove=2\baselineskip,%
    linewidth=1pt,%
    innerleftmargin=0pt,%
    innerrightmargin=0pt%
    ]%
  }{%
  \end{mdframed}
}

    Posted 1 year ago #

  13. Seamus Bradley
    Member

    I found a nice resource for learning about bibliographies in TeX etc.

    Posted 1 year ago #

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