Useful link that tabulates an individual’s the most recently listened to songs and artists on Spotify. Lists are given over short term (4 weeks), medium term (6 months), and long term (years) on Spotify. Just […]
Extracting images from a Word file Pandoc is a great Swiss-army-knife type tool and indispensable if you convert between various document types often. I use it frequently as a first line to take care of […]
Adding unnumbered part to the ToC Sometimes, it is desirable to add section headings to a modular ToC. There are packages that help in customizing the ToC and even in creating multiple ToCs, but I […]
Admittedly, this had me scratching my noggin for a little while. I had a small amount of Spanish text to typeset and instead of manually setting up the accented characters, I cut-and-pasted it directly from […]
There are numerous compression/archive utilities available and in use on the ‘net. Here are some scratchpad notes for using popular options for some of them. Mostly for my reference, but you may find something useful […]
There are several ways to accomplish line breaks withing LaTeX table cells, but I wanted to mention a package that offers the ability to format individual table cells and thus give an easy mechanism for […]
In order to get PDF-XChange Editor working with TeXnicCenter, it is simply a case of defining an output profile. From TeXnicCenter, click build -> Define Output Profiles (or use the keyboard shortcut ALT+F7). You’ll see […]
Continuous footnote numbering across chapters By default, footnote numbering resets on a per chapter basis in several popular LaTeX classes (memoir, report, and others.) In order to prevent the reset per chapter, and have continuous […]
Recently, I ran across a laptop I hadn’t used for several years. It had Windows Vista installed and, for the life of me, I was unable to recall the administrator (or, for that matter, any […]
Sometimes, it is convenient to change the font temporarily within a paragraph in LaTeX. This can be achieved quite simply by using the fontspec package (which requires XeLaTex or LuaLaTeX.) In order to change the […]
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