Stone Studio

Think faster than “How to write a book in 28 days”. With the freely available R language you can create a book in less than 28 seconds. Unfortunately, you still have to write the text and do the programming. What you can do is integrate the R code and text into the same files, then [...]

To achieve this goal, we need use the concept of literate programming, yet another one of Donald Knuth’s contributions to the world. LP “represents a move away from writing programs in the manner and order imposed by the computer, and instead enables programmers to develop programs in the order demanded by the logic and flow [...]

LaTeXSearch, a free service provided by Springer, affords the scientific community the ability to search for LaTeX code within scientific publications. LaTeXSearch allows users to locate and view the following:

Equations containing specific LaTeX code.
Equations containing LaTeX code that is similar to another LaTeX string.
All equations belonging to a specific DOI.
All equations belonging to an article [...]

This is how I use IEEE template in LyX, first of all, you will need to select the document class as: article(IEEEtrans). IEEE tend to use a fancy large first letter as the beginning of the article, and top header reserved for both journal title and page number. Especially to note that, IEEE require the [...]

I recommend the following tips for the best possible reproduction of High-quality figures. I divided this article into two parts. The first part is how to produce publication standard figures contains lines. The second part is talking about how to render image files for publications. I normally save these two settings in Matlab so that [...]

Previously I showed how to use unicode in LyX / XeTex, it works but rather complicated. I found a much simple way of doing such thing, and now I can easily write Chinese together with English in LyX.

Tool 1: BlackHC’s PowerPoint Tools
Currently contains two PowerPoint 2007 addins: PowerPointLaTeX – an addin that allows you to embed LaTeX formulas into your presentations more easily and in a more user-friendly way than comparable software (TexPoint for example). LanguagePainter – a tiny tool to help you create presentations in languages different from your keyboard layout [...]

Just a short template with some packages included:
123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}

% let’s use some nice packages
\usepackage{times}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{amsmath}
% set all margins to 2.5 cm
\usepackage[margin=2.5cm]{geometry}
% for fancy and easy modification of header and footer
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
% include hyperlinks in pdf file
\usepackage{hyperref}
% decide if run PdfTeX or LaTeX
\ifx\pdfoutput\undefined
% we are running LaTeX, not pdflatex
\usepackage{graphicx}
\else
% we are running pdflatex, so convert .eps files to .pdf
\usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}
\usepackage{epstopdf}
\fi

% [...]