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Comments in BibTeX
Be warned: there is a @Comment directive in BibTeX, but it doesn’t appear to do anything. UPDATE: @Comment works as expected so long as you use it outside any other directive. E.g., the following will...
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Lazy Scholarship
Fill in the blanks: You are ___% more likely to get cited if you include BibTeX and/or EndNote entries for your publications on your web page. You are ___% less likely to get cited if the PDF of your...
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\tag{eqname}
So you want to give an equation a name in LaTeX, instead of the number it gets automatically… For some reason, Google will resist telling you how. You may be tempted to use the eqname package. No need!...
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Buffer-local Dictionaries
If you write technical documents—especially technical computer science documents with code snippets and the like—you’re likely to come across a spell-checking dilemma like the following: Unrecognized...
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LaTeX Letters
I was trying to write a letter in LaTeX the other day: \documentclass{letter} \address{Nowheresville} \signature{Me} \begin{document} \begin{letter} \opening{To Whom It May Concern:} Hello, there....
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Style Guidelines for People
In the midst of some unrelated Googling, I came across Luca de Alfaro’s style guidelines for student co-authors. This is good stuff. I particularly like “one sentence per line” b/w “fill-sentence...
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LaTeX Appendectomies
I have need of a LaTeX package. I think a lot of people would find this package useful. I would prefer not to write it myself. This package would take a mode argument in the preamble and format the...
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BibTeX Journal Abbreviations
Ladies and gentlemen, a list of BibTeX’s built-in journal abbreviations, of which Google is largely ignorant: acmcs: ACM Computing Surveys acta: Acta Informatica cacm: Communications of the ACM ibmjrd:...
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