I was editing a poster and didn’t know whether or not to include a bibliography. I had already added \cite commands and wanted to get an idea of what it looks like without bibliography. So I commented out \printbiliography to get rid of the bibliography, but the numbers were still in the text. Removing all … [Read more…]
The document class options draft is extremely useful to speed up typesetting and visualize overfull \hbox warnings. Even more so, when you work on a large document. I previously introduced the draft and final options here and here. The ifdraft package adds more flexibility to the draft and final options. It implements three commands with … [Read more…]
The big O, big theta, and other notations form the family of Bachmann-Landau or asymptotic notations. These notations describe the limiting behavior of a function in mathematics or classify algorithms in computer science according to their complexity / processing time. In this post, I’m not so much interested in the definition of these notations, but rather in … [Read more…]
I have been fascinated with typographic ligatures for quite some time. Ligatures are a class of glyphs composed of two individual letters. There are two classes, historical and stylistic ligatures. Historical ligatures were present since the beginning of scripts, possibly to increase writing speed. Stylistic ligatures occurred more “recently”, with the invention of (analog) printing. … [Read more…]
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…]