11 April 2010
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 a [...]
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AMA citation:
Jiang W. PStricks vs. TikZ for Technical Diagrams. Stone Studio. 2010. Available at: http://wei-jiang.com/it/software/pstricks-vs-tikz-for-technical-diagrams. Accessed September 3, 2010.
APA citation:
Jiang, Wei. (2010). PStricks vs. TikZ for Technical Diagrams. Retrieved September 3, 2010, from Stone Studio Web site, http://wei-jiang.com/it/software/pstricks-vs-tikz-for-technical-diagrams
Chicago citation:
Jiang, Wei, "PStricks vs. TikZ for Technical Diagrams", Stone Studio, posted April 11, 2010, http://wei-jiang.com/it/software/pstricks-vs-tikz-for-technical-diagrams (accessed September 3, 2010).
Harvard citation:
Jiang, W 2010, PStricks vs. TikZ for Technical Diagrams, Stone Studio. Retrieved September 3, 2010, from <http://wei-jiang.com/it/software/pstricks-vs-tikz-for-technical-diagrams>
MLA citation:
Jiang, Wei. "PStricks vs. TikZ for Technical Diagrams." Stone Studio. 11 Apr. 2010. 3 Sep. 2010 <http://wei-jiang.com/it/software/pstricks-vs-tikz-for-technical-diagrams>
Thank you for your interest.
20 March 2010
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 the [...]
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Jiang W. mathURL: Online Equation Editing. Stone Studio. 2010. Available at: http://wei-jiang.com/programming/latex/mathurl-online-equation-editing. Accessed September 3, 2010.
APA citation:
Jiang, Wei. (2010). mathURL: Online Equation Editing. Retrieved September 3, 2010, from Stone Studio Web site, http://wei-jiang.com/programming/latex/mathurl-online-equation-editing
Chicago citation:
Jiang, Wei, "mathURL: Online Equation Editing", Stone Studio, posted March 20, 2010, http://wei-jiang.com/programming/latex/mathurl-online-equation-editing (accessed September 3, 2010).
Harvard citation:
Jiang, W 2010, mathURL: Online Equation Editing, Stone Studio. Retrieved September 3, 2010, from <http://wei-jiang.com/programming/latex/mathurl-online-equation-editing>
MLA citation:
Jiang, Wei. "mathURL: Online Equation Editing." Stone Studio. 20 Mar. 2010. 3 Sep. 2010 <http://wei-jiang.com/programming/latex/mathurl-online-equation-editing>
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20 March 2010
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 [...]
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AMA citation:
Jiang W. IPE: Graphics Editor for LaTeX. Stone Studio. 2010. Available at: http://wei-jiang.com/it/software/ipe-graphics-editor-for-latex. Accessed September 3, 2010.
APA citation:
Jiang, Wei. (2010). IPE: Graphics Editor for LaTeX. Retrieved September 3, 2010, from Stone Studio Web site, http://wei-jiang.com/it/software/ipe-graphics-editor-for-latex
Chicago citation:
Jiang, Wei, "IPE: Graphics Editor for LaTeX", Stone Studio, posted March 20, 2010, http://wei-jiang.com/it/software/ipe-graphics-editor-for-latex (accessed September 3, 2010).
Harvard citation:
Jiang, W 2010, IPE: Graphics Editor for LaTeX, Stone Studio. Retrieved September 3, 2010, from <http://wei-jiang.com/it/software/ipe-graphics-editor-for-latex>
MLA citation:
Jiang, Wei. "IPE: Graphics Editor for LaTeX." Stone Studio. 20 Mar. 2010. 3 Sep. 2010 <http://wei-jiang.com/it/software/ipe-graphics-editor-for-latex>
Thank you for your interest.
7 March 2010
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 [...]
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Jiang W. How to write a book with R and LaTeX. Stone Studio. 2010. Available at: http://wei-jiang.com/programming/latex/how-to-write-a-book-with-r-and-latex. Accessed September 3, 2010.
APA citation:
Jiang, Wei. (2010). How to write a book with R and LaTeX. Retrieved September 3, 2010, from Stone Studio Web site, http://wei-jiang.com/programming/latex/how-to-write-a-book-with-r-and-latex
Chicago citation:
Jiang, Wei, "How to write a book with R and LaTeX", Stone Studio, posted March 7, 2010, http://wei-jiang.com/programming/latex/how-to-write-a-book-with-r-and-latex (accessed September 3, 2010).
Harvard citation:
Jiang, W 2010, How to write a book with R and LaTeX, Stone Studio. Retrieved September 3, 2010, from <http://wei-jiang.com/programming/latex/how-to-write-a-book-with-r-and-latex>
MLA citation:
Jiang, Wei. "How to write a book with R and LaTeX." Stone Studio. 7 Mar. 2010. 3 Sep. 2010 <http://wei-jiang.com/programming/latex/how-to-write-a-book-with-r-and-latex>
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7 March 2010
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 [...]
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Jiang W. Howto Create Great Presentations using Beamer, Sweave and LaTeX. Stone Studio. 2010. Available at: http://wei-jiang.com/programming/latex/howto-create-great-presentations-using-beamer-sweave-and-latex. Accessed September 3, 2010.
APA citation:
Jiang, Wei. (2010). Howto Create Great Presentations using Beamer, Sweave and LaTeX. Retrieved September 3, 2010, from Stone Studio Web site, http://wei-jiang.com/programming/latex/howto-create-great-presentations-using-beamer-sweave-and-latex
Chicago citation:
Jiang, Wei, "Howto Create Great Presentations using Beamer, Sweave and LaTeX", Stone Studio, posted March 7, 2010, http://wei-jiang.com/programming/latex/howto-create-great-presentations-using-beamer-sweave-and-latex (accessed September 3, 2010).
Harvard citation:
Jiang, W 2010, Howto Create Great Presentations using Beamer, Sweave and LaTeX, Stone Studio. Retrieved September 3, 2010, from <http://wei-jiang.com/programming/latex/howto-create-great-presentations-using-beamer-sweave-and-latex>
MLA citation:
Jiang, Wei. "Howto Create Great Presentations using Beamer, Sweave and LaTeX." Stone Studio. 7 Mar. 2010. 3 Sep. 2010 <http://wei-jiang.com/programming/latex/howto-create-great-presentations-using-beamer-sweave-and-latex>
Thank you for your interest.
7 March 2010
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 [...]
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AMA citation:
Jiang W. LaTeXSearch: Search for LaTeX code Within Scientific Publications. Stone Studio. 2010. Available at: http://wei-jiang.com/programming/latex/latexsearch-search-for-latex-code-within-scientific-publications. Accessed September 3, 2010.
APA citation:
Jiang, Wei. (2010). LaTeXSearch: Search for LaTeX code Within Scientific Publications. Retrieved September 3, 2010, from Stone Studio Web site, http://wei-jiang.com/programming/latex/latexsearch-search-for-latex-code-within-scientific-publications
Chicago citation:
Jiang, Wei, "LaTeXSearch: Search for LaTeX code Within Scientific Publications", Stone Studio, posted March 7, 2010, http://wei-jiang.com/programming/latex/latexsearch-search-for-latex-code-within-scientific-publications (accessed September 3, 2010).
Harvard citation:
Jiang, W 2010, LaTeXSearch: Search for LaTeX code Within Scientific Publications, Stone Studio. Retrieved September 3, 2010, from <http://wei-jiang.com/programming/latex/latexsearch-search-for-latex-code-within-scientific-publications>
MLA citation:
Jiang, Wei. "LaTeXSearch: Search for LaTeX code Within Scientific Publications." Stone Studio. 7 Mar. 2010. 3 Sep. 2010 <http://wei-jiang.com/programming/latex/latexsearch-search-for-latex-code-within-scientific-publications>
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20 February 2010
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 [...]
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AMA citation:
Jiang W. Howto Use IEEE LaTeX Template in LyX. Stone Studio. 2010. Available at: http://wei-jiang.com/programming/latex/howto-use-ieee-latex-template-in-lyx. Accessed September 3, 2010.
APA citation:
Jiang, Wei. (2010). Howto Use IEEE LaTeX Template in LyX. Retrieved September 3, 2010, from Stone Studio Web site, http://wei-jiang.com/programming/latex/howto-use-ieee-latex-template-in-lyx
Chicago citation:
Jiang, Wei, "Howto Use IEEE LaTeX Template in LyX", Stone Studio, posted February 20, 2010, http://wei-jiang.com/programming/latex/howto-use-ieee-latex-template-in-lyx (accessed September 3, 2010).
Harvard citation:
Jiang, W 2010, Howto Use IEEE LaTeX Template in LyX, Stone Studio. Retrieved September 3, 2010, from <http://wei-jiang.com/programming/latex/howto-use-ieee-latex-template-in-lyx>
MLA citation:
Jiang, Wei. "Howto Use IEEE LaTeX Template in LyX." Stone Studio. 20 Feb. 2010. 3 Sep. 2010 <http://wei-jiang.com/programming/latex/howto-use-ieee-latex-template-in-lyx>
Thank you for your interest.
8 February 2010
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 [...]
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AMA citation:
Jiang W. Use LaTeX in Powerpoint. Stone Studio. 2010. Available at: http://wei-jiang.com/it/software/use-latex-in-powerpoint. Accessed September 3, 2010.
APA citation:
Jiang, Wei. (2010). Use LaTeX in Powerpoint. Retrieved September 3, 2010, from Stone Studio Web site, http://wei-jiang.com/it/software/use-latex-in-powerpoint
Chicago citation:
Jiang, Wei, "Use LaTeX in Powerpoint", Stone Studio, posted February 8, 2010, http://wei-jiang.com/it/software/use-latex-in-powerpoint (accessed September 3, 2010).
Harvard citation:
Jiang, W 2010, Use LaTeX in Powerpoint, Stone Studio. Retrieved September 3, 2010, from <http://wei-jiang.com/it/software/use-latex-in-powerpoint>
MLA citation:
Jiang, Wei. "Use LaTeX in Powerpoint." Stone Studio. 8 Feb. 2010. 3 Sep. 2010 <http://wei-jiang.com/it/software/use-latex-in-powerpoint>
Thank you for your interest.