Paper Writing

TeXnicCenter Custom Text Modules

Author: benjaminOn: Jul 13Categories: LaTex / Bibtex, Paper Writing

Writing an artical or book with latex, you typically use similar commands over and over again. For example, when you use a glossary, you might use the \gls{SPL} to refer the acronym SPL for a Software Product Line. Typing all the characters is tedious...

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Latex Reducing Enumeration Item Space

Author: benjaminOn: May 04Categories: LaTex / Bibtex, Paper Writing

The default enumeration item spacing in most LaTeX styles is quite generous. If you want to save some space and provide an often more compact presentation to your reader, different approaches are available. Starting with a default presentation, this article...

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Mendeley and Latex / Bibtex

Author: benjaminOn: Feb 12Categories: LaTex / Bibtex, Paper Writing

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Mendeley is a really good literature management tool. Especially, if you are writing magazin articles or research papers in frequent manner. Beside the web portal, it also provides deskop, smartphone and...

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Mendeley: Webpage Entry URLs in Bibtex Export

Author: benjaminOn: Oct 19Categories: LaTex / Bibtex, Paper Writing No Comments

Note: There is a newer blog post providing more recent hints for integration: Mendeley and LaTeX / BibTeX Mendeley is very good literature reference management software and provides a good export for Bibtex reference files. However, some interactions...

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Latex: Reduce size of itemize / list blocks

Author: benjaminOn: Aug 07Categories: Paper Writing No Comments

Writing your papers often requires to get the most out of the number of pages you are allowed to submit. Sometimes, it helps to reduce the size of standard text elements such as images, paragraphs and also lists. Lists in latex can be specified as \begin{itemize}...

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