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Norman Ramsey at StackOverflow once asked: My group uses Literate Programming for most of our source code—this means that internal documentation is written using LaTeX. We have been using PStricks for fancy technical diagrams of the system, but have recently been recommended to use TikZ. I’ve gathered this information: TikZ/PGF is new and maintained; PStricks went [...]

Send complex math expressions over email and IM, without requiring any special software. It’s also great for previewing LaTeX on the fly and generating images for embedding in your webpages. The red mathURL links to a page on this site with your equation. To embed an equation in some other webpage, you can either save [...]

Ipe extensible drawing editor is a free vector graphics editor for creating figures in PDF or EPS format. It can be used for making small figures for inclusion into LaTeX documents as well as making multi-page PDF presentations. It was developed by Otfried Cheong in 1993 and initially worked on SGI workstations only. Ipe 6 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Inpendently typeset document fragments Inserting the fragments. Problem: \input does not handle relative paths in the inserted files correctly. Solution: package import, command \subimport{dir/}{file} Hiding the preamble. Problem: package ifthen provides commands for conditional text inclusion, but this package can only be included after the preamble. Solution: use \ifdefined 12345678910 % main document  \newcommand{marker}{} % subdocument [...]