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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 [...]

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

% [...]

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
\ifdefined\marker
% things that only [...]

I am using LaTeX (started with LaTeX 2.09, followed by LaTeX 3e and now XeTeX) with a WYSIWYG LyX for everything technical and scientific (reports, articles, thesis, presentations). In the last year I changed to pdfTeX in order to obtain directly pdf file output without intermediate steps like dvi and ps, and to replace eps [...]