Comments on: How do you LaTeX? http://blog.nixternal.com/2007.10.15/how-do-you-latex/ Free Software Chicago Style: letting proprietary solutions sleep with the fishes Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:32:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: mariana http://blog.nixternal.com/2007.10.15/how-do-you-latex/#comment-4172 mariana Fri, 30 May 2008 01:25:50 +0000 http://blog.nixternal.com/2007.10.15/how-do-you-latex/#comment-4172 This is my first time using LATEX, and I have to write my thesis using the MLA format style. I am trying to use James Clawson's MLA style for biblatex, and the report document class. This is my first time using LATEX, and I have to write my thesis using the MLA format style.

I am trying to use James Clawson’s MLA style for biblatex, and the report document class.

]]> By: James Clawson http://blog.nixternal.com/2007.10.15/how-do-you-latex/#comment-3043 James Clawson Mon, 22 Oct 2007 11:05:17 +0000 http://blog.nixternal.com/2007.10.15/how-do-you-latex/#comment-3043 I make my MLA-style files for biblatex available on my website. Check it out if you're looking for MLA-style parenthetical citations, Works Cited, and the use of bibtex database files. I've just updated the version to 0.2, and I'm happy to receive any feedback on it or to accept/incorporate any improvements to it. It works only with biblatex version 0.6 (the current version), and the developer of biblatex has promised that things will break with version 0.7 (but that they shouldn't thereafter), so this should serve only to have things working for now. As it's the best solution I know, I'll be updating it with version 0.7 and thereafter. My email address is made of my surname at a particularly postal kind of G. I make my MLA-style files for biblatex available on my website. Check it out if you’re looking for MLA-style parenthetical citations, Works Cited, and the use of bibtex database files. I’ve just updated the version to 0.2, and I’m happy to receive any feedback on it or to accept/incorporate any improvements to it.

It works only with biblatex version 0.6 (the current version), and the developer of biblatex has promised that things will break with version 0.7 (but that they shouldn’t thereafter), so this should serve only to have things working for now. As it’s the best solution I know, I’ll be updating it with version 0.7 and thereafter.

My email address is made of my surname at a particularly postal kind of G.

]]> By: _FrnchFrgg_ http://blog.nixternal.com/2007.10.15/how-do-you-latex/#comment-3033 _FrnchFrgg_ Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:17:28 +0000 http://blog.nixternal.com/2007.10.15/how-do-you-latex/#comment-3033 I use pdf(La)TeX, with microtypography enabled: \usepackage{lmodern} \usepackage{microtype} See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microtypography for an explanation of what it does. TeX already had an extremely good output, but with microtypography, it's another level up... I know of no other typography/word processor program which does that. I use pdf(La)TeX, with microtypography enabled:

\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage{microtype}

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microtypography for an explanation of what it does. TeX already had an extremely good output, but with microtypography, it’s another level up… I know of no other typography/word processor program which does that.

]]> By: Tobias http://blog.nixternal.com/2007.10.15/how-do-you-latex/#comment-3031 Tobias Tue, 16 Oct 2007 16:08:55 +0000 http://blog.nixternal.com/2007.10.15/how-do-you-latex/#comment-3031 Gabriel: \usepackage{lmodern}, with \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}, of course. Gabriel: \usepackage{lmodern}, with \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}, of course.

]]> By: dominiko http://blog.nixternal.com/2007.10.15/how-do-you-latex/#comment-3029 dominiko Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:58:10 +0000 http://blog.nixternal.com/2007.10.15/how-do-you-latex/#comment-3029 I do not use LaTeX anymore. I prefer the simplicity and readability of <a href="http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/user/rst/quickref.html" rel="nofollow">reStructuredText</a> markup, which generates LaTeX (rst2latex), html (rst2html), etc. It does not replace LaTeX though, since it's more limited. However, for most documents, it has all I need. I do not use LaTeX anymore. I prefer the simplicity and readability of reStructuredText markup, which generates LaTeX (rst2latex), html (rst2html), etc. It does not replace LaTeX though, since it’s more limited. However, for most documents, it has all I need.

]]> By: 1052 http://blog.nixternal.com/2007.10.15/how-do-you-latex/#comment-3026 1052 Tue, 16 Oct 2007 08:21:59 +0000 http://blog.nixternal.com/2007.10.15/how-do-you-latex/#comment-3026 @Gabriel There are many reasons why pdflatex may not generate the correct forms. Look in google for "latex pdf fonts". Some of the fixes could be implemented by default in a distribution. It would be helpful to make a summary of them in the Ubuntu wiki for example. @Gabriel

There are many reasons why pdflatex may not generate the correct forms. Look in google for “latex pdf fonts”. Some of the fixes could be implemented by default in a distribution. It would be helpful to make a summary of them in the Ubuntu wiki for example.

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