Tag: Typesetting

• How to use textpath with Metapost

  It took me more than a few hours to get this working and as the manual is not at all fully clear on what you need to do (or rather, it assumes more knowledge of LaTeX than I had), I thought it would be useful to set this out. Textpath allows one to draw text […]

  Adrian McMenamin

  November 5, 2012

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  DVI, LaTeX, LaTeX preamble, MetaPost, TeX, textpath, Typesetting

• How do I do this?

  I am preparing a computer science slide presentation and (as I am sane) do not want to use Powerpoint. So I have been using LyX and the Beamer class. The slides look great. But how do I add notes? If I add notes “by hand” e.g. \note{Here is a note} – I see nothing in […]

  Adrian McMenamin

  October 2, 2012

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  Beamer, LaTeX, LyX, Powerpoint, presentation, TeX, Typesetting

• Anyone got any thoughts on the LaTeX companion?

  Should I shell out £23 for The Latex Companion to ensure I can most effectively write my documents and design my slides for university? I have The LATEX Graphics Companion and there is no doubt it is a good book, but the number of books I could buy increases exponentially the more I think about the […]

  Adrian McMenamin

  August 27, 2012

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  LaTeX, LaTeX Companion, LaTeX Graphics Companion, LyX, TeX, Typesetting

• LaTeX w00t!

  I owe Professor Paul A. Rubin another apology – turns out I can display LaTeX natively in a wordpress.com blog after all – as the following wave equation shows:   Related Articles LaTeX frustration… (cartesianproduct.wordpress.com) Ambidextrous alignment in LaTeX (ask.metafilter.com)

  Adrian McMenamin

  April 11, 2011

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  LaTeX, TeX, Typesetting

• LaTeX frustration…

  Anyone who works on software development and in the FOSS world generally is used to seeing books and documentation in English. It is certainly a great advantage to be a fluent speaker and reader. But it is not always the case – as I have just found out. Right now I have returned to writing […]

  Adrian McMenamin

  February 6, 2011

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  LaTeX, LaTeX hacks, LyX, MSc project proposal, scientific papers, TeX, Typesetting, typesetting for science