In an attempt to ease the transition from Word to LaTeX for some of my colleagues (*cough* Alex *cough*) this blog post covers some LaTeX tricks I use most frequently when preparing manuscripts. It’s pitched at someone who is already familiar with the basic syntax of paragraphs, figures and tables.
Alternative titles: If you are like me, you can happily write code for hours and hours on end but as soon as you need to write a paper you end up staring at a blank page. Luckily, I have come up with a fool proof way to trick myself into thinking I am coding when […]
Alternative Title: The tragic story of how I got trapped making slides with latex. Typically after giving a presentation at least one person will approach me and ask if they could have access to my custom latex template to make slides with beamer that don’t look rubbish. TL;DR Yes you can: https://github.com/npqst/latex-beamer-template
Tracking changes in Microsoft Word is easy – we just click the ‘Track Changes’ button. It requires a little more work in LaTeX but here is a quick guide to doing it as painlessly as possible! First, we want our original document to be stored in a *.tex file in an Overleaf project (as shown […]
Here I’ll share my set-up for writing Latex with gvim instead of a separate Latex editor. If you are text-editor averse, this blog post is not for you. But if, like me, you love vim and hate useless GUIs, this might be helpful. We’re lucky to have nice big screens in the Stats Department, but […]
While researching on protein interaction networks it is often important to illustrate networks. For this many different tools are available, for example, Python’s NetworkX and Matlab, that allow the export of figures as pixelated images or vector graphics. Usually, these figures are then incorporated in the papers, which are commonly written in LaTeX. In this post, I […]
Maybe people keep telling you Word is great but you are just too emotionally attached to LaTeX to consider using anything else. It just looks so beautiful. Besides, you would have to leave your beloved linux environment (maybe that’s just me), so you stick with what you know. You work for many weeks long and […]
Something that you may or may not know, is that you can write loops in LaTeX. It is, in fact, a Turing-complete language, so you can write if statements too (which is helpful for making multi-line comments), and do all the other things you can do with a programming language. So, I guess you are […]
I am going to leave this here and bookmark it, because I am fed up of looking this up every time, not finding it and having to `history | fgrep rm`. To be used if you want to delete all LaTeX generated (and pdfLaTeX) files. rm *.aux *.out *.toc *.log *.synctex.gz *.bbl *.blg *.pdf Use […]
Imagine you are writing up your latest thrilling piece of science in your favourite odt or docx format. Nothing comes from nothing so you need to cite the 50 or so people whose ideas you built on, or who came to conclusions that contradict yours. Suddenly you realize that your second sentence needs a reference… […]