Scientific writing
So carrying on with a similar theme as yesterday, I found an interesting article posted to the Fediverse looking at Markdown vs. LaTeX for Scientific Writing
So am sharing here as it may be of interest.
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Using LaTeX in Markdown.
There are a lot of platforms that use Markdown as the main way of helping writers format their text so it looks nice and conveys their message efficiently.
If you are a scientist, then you may want to include more specialist text, such as subscripts, formulae, etc within you text. Using laTeX is a good way to do this. Using MathJaX allows you to get the best of both worlds.
The article here How to use LaTeX in Markdown
Guides you through how to integrate LaTeX with Markdown.
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Debian Presentation updated
I have updated my Debian Presentation again for Bookworm (Debian 12). This has been pushed to the salsa repository.
I compiled this with
pdflatrex DebianBookwormPresentationMay2021.tex
Hopefully this is useful. Information mostly based on the release notes but also on other sources. In general I am on IRC as zleap so can be found on both OFTC and Libera.chat. I am also on fedi as zleap ( @[email protected] )
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Improve Your Writing Productivity
On the 24th Feb I made a post to help promote a webinar on How To Improve Your Writing Productivity, A Research-Based Approach which was taking place on the 28th Feb. This was presented by Bec Evans and Chris Smith, co-founders of Prolifiko! in Partnership with Overleaf.
You can now watch the recording of this by registering here it is about 58 minutes long, I am not sure if this includes any Q&A.
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How I Make Presentations Using LaTeX & Beamer
How I Make Presentations Using LaTeX & Beamer
This was posted to the Overleaf LinkedIn feed, so sharing here. The video covers how to make presentations that contain mathematical notation.
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Make beautiful math graphics using Tikz & LaTeX
How to make beautiful math graphics using Tikz & LaTeX
This was posted to the Overleaf Linked in feed, so sharing here.
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How to Generate References with LaTeX (BibTeX)
How to Generate References with LaTeX (BibTeX)
Another LaTeX video, this time relating to creating a bibliography. This isn't using Overleaf, however the principle is similar. The Overleaf example file has a built in Bibliography example. I have found a video that covers this, so please see the second video below.
There are adverts every so often, but you can just skip these.
Video 1 LaTeX and BibTeX
Video 2 Overleaf and BibTeX
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Improve your academic writing with Writefull.
Improve your academic writing with Writefull.
Writefull, is a really useful extension to overleaf, that helps you improve your writing. It is designed to be integrated in to Overleaf, so complements really well. From experience, this works in Chrome but I am not sure if there is a specific plug-in for Firefox.
The narrator does seem to be talking rather fast, which makes it harder to follow. I did use the Youtube settings to slow down the speed to 0.75, which sort of improved this. To be fair, I am not sure if the narrators first language is English, so that may account for the speed he is talking. But it is not a barrier to watching the video, once slowed down, or even at normal speed.
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Tutorial for writing lab reports in LaTeX and Overleaf
So further to my previous overleaf post. This is a tutorial to show you how to make a simple lab report. It is about an hour long. But seems to cover quite a lot of ground. I am happy to help people with LaTeX, I would recommend using the forum (see links below), you should be able to tag me in with @PaulSutton.
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TeX Live 2022
TeX Live 2022 is now available. This is the latest release of the popular LaTeX typesetting system, software, related software, packages, documentation and other related material(s).
Please give it a day or so, so that mirrors can be populated etc.
I will have a copy available at the next Paignton Library STEM Group on April 9th. The CTAN resources are useful, even if you are using websites such as Overleaf.
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