in the beginning...

Sometimes you have to start from the beginning, there can be useful information in the beginning. LaTeX  "haha, if you're not smart enough to figure this out, too bad for you." http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Introduction http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Importing_Graphics  Arc "haha, we don't give a fck about user experience, too bad for you." http://webhelp.esri.com/arcgisdesktop/9.2/

jabref and TeXnicCenter and BibTeX

BibTeX, I hate you for making me feel stupid. But I love you because you are going to make my life a lot easier. right? Right?! RIGHT??!! 1. JabRef databases are saved in .bib format, which are just .txt files and can be opened with WordPad or vi or whatever. They might have a bunch of extra crap in them like full abstracts, the notes you typed into JabRef, whatever. Export the entries for your

lazy about tex equations

It's only been a 15 year hiatus but i am now seriously working on a .tex file. Although I have no problem with brute-force typing in equations, the lazy part of me wishes there were something that would take the MathType output and generate the equation code. Just for efficiency's sake, you know? There are a lot of equations. I found this thing, which helps. You have to click in the symbols,

LaTeX on windows

Matlabor is back, but not only about matlab. It's a place to put things that I would otherwise forget. Today we're going to document how to do LaTeX on windows. Why? Let's just assume the following (1) I had ubuntu working but when I tried to upgrade it yesterday, I ended up three hours later very demoralized with no more ubuntu on my computer (the fault of incomplete wubi uninstall, and my

text as TeX or un-TeX

continuing the tradition of writing about stuff that i haven't really implemented in the past... text properties important: the default is to interpret strings as TEX instructions, and that is why the underscores in my titles always mess it up by creating subscripts. i need to set the text interpreter to none. then i need to be cool and start having some LaTeX equations in my other plots.