If you are fed up parameterizing latex documents….

Dear all,

check this out. Another open source application to make our lives a bit easier.
Works in Linux, Mac OSX and… Windows if they manage to spent a day working without freezing (hahaha).

http://www.doebelin.org/nic/tools/texwiz/

So, this guy make this tiny but beatiful app, that is basically a GUI for parameterizing a latex document. I have not played a lot with it but I noticed that not everything is in there. However you can very quickly and easily create the basic layout for your document without searching for the command that does it…And I think everyone of us has spent several time searching latex commands…

Hope it simplifies this “latex-dependent” period of our lives…Enjoy.

Yiannis

P.S: Linux users good news. This app is going to be integrated with Kile at some point.

Ioannis Kosmidis : 16 May 2007 03:29 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Interesting paper on MCMC

There is a very interesting paper on MCMC. It mainly focus on implementation issues. Here is the reference

‘Markov chain Monte Carlo in practice: a roundtable discussion’
Carlin, B., Gelman, A., Neal, R., Kass, R.
The American Statistician, 1998, vol 52, No2

Enjoy!

Maria da Silva Teixeira Costa : 28 Nov 2006 12:51 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Free Matlab Book

Maria Costa sent me this link to a free Matlab book:

http://www.mathworks.com/moler/

Theodore Papamarkou : 07 Nov 2006 15:44 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

China's top statistician is in trouble

China’s top statistician has apparently been fired for corruption, although there is speculation that it could be because he was a little too outspoken for the politicians’ tastes… Good to see statisticians having fun either way!

Full story here.

Guy Freeman : 19 Oct 2006 10:22 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Ominous Clouds Over Our Planet

BBC News:
“North Korea’s UN envoy, Pak Gil Yon, warned that any increase in US pressure would be considered as a “declaration of war”.”

Have a look at that link...

Theodore Papamarkou : 15 Oct 2006 00:42 |  Comments (1) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

LaTeX Tip: How to Change the Font of a Legend to the Same Font as the Text

Here is a LaTeX tip that Maria Costa proposed:

How To Change the Font of a Legend to the Same Font as the Text

Important:

The figures must be in .eps format and this must be their ORIGINAL format!

How To:

At the beginning:

\usepackage{psfrag}

When including your figure in the text:

\psfrag{text to replace}{rcl e tcb}[][scale of the letters][angle to rotate the letters]{text to include}

Note:

‘r’=right, ‘c’=centre, ‘l’=left in the horizontal direction;

‘t’=top, ‘c’=centre, ‘b’=bottom in the vertical direction. Most of the times using ‘cc’ works fine.

Example:

\begin{figure}

\centering

\psfrag{r2}[cc][][0.8][0]{$\rho_2$}

\psfrag{0}[cc][][0.8][0]{$\bf{0}$}

\psfrag{k1JP}[cc][][0.8][0]{$\frac{1}{k_1}\J\bi{P}$}

\psfrag{u}[lc][][0.8][0]{$\theta$}

\includegraphics[width=0.70\textwidth,angle=0]{Fig1.eps}

\caption{.....}

\label{Fig1}

\end{figure}

Advice:

You should use simple text to represent the letters/symbols you want to replace. For example, ‘r2’ in the example above is used when creating the figure and later, whem running LaTex, replaced by what we really wanted to write, ’\rho_2’. You shouldn’t use, when including any legend, very complicated names (specially not symbols) for the text in the legend you want to replace. Otherwise Tex may not be able to change it.

Theodore Papamarkou : 03 Oct 2006 15:50 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

An useful GUI for managing bibtex collections

Dear all,

about bibtex files. I am sure that some people are using some kind of bibtex editors to manage their references.

However, I would like to suggest one that I found quite useful. It is open source software and the only thing it requires is a system with enabled java VM (all of the university systems as far as I know).

It is complete GUI for managing references and the user can do all sorts of things that can be done using a usual text editor to edit the bibtex file directly.

Give it a try!!! It can be found at

http://jabref.sourceforge.net/

Yiannis

Ioannis Kosmidis : 03 Oct 2006 14:12 |  Comments (1) |  Close comments |  Report a problem