What’s a good way to retrieve BibTeX entries? This question has been asked on tex.SX, Reddit and other forums. Google Scholar is doing a reasonable, but not always brilliant job in generating BibTeX entries (see my recent post on the topic and the discussion). The main drawbacks include the missing digital object identifier (DOI) or URL linking … [Read more…]
Since Apple introduced alternately colored rows in their lists in Mac OS X, it has become more and more popular to color tables in LaTeX in a similar fashion. Usually, this can be achieved fairly easily, see my post on the topic here. However, when using multirow, things become slightly more complicated. In this post, … [Read more…]
Often universities provide official LaTeX templates for PhD theses. If your university doesn’t, here is a template. The template includes the most common elements of a thesis title page: University’s or institute’s logo Thesis title Author’s name Degree the thesis is submitted for Submission date A few remarks The template may have to … [Read more…]
I was looking for a simple schematic representation of DNA – protein interaction and didn’t find anything of the sort on the web. Below is what I came up with. I hope that some of you might find it useful. DNA The two strands of DNA are represented by two wavy lines, using the … [Read more…]
The lastest TUGboat issue (2014.1 – 35:1) was just published online. Besides general communications and developments, the issue contains a number of interesting reads on a variety of topics, including: grammar rules of lists, presentations with beamer, and the concept of boxes just to name a few. Access to technical articles is only available to … [Read more…]