hermeschris

For all who experienced the compiler complaint about the
\newcommand{\checkmark}{\dingbat@sym{’104}}
Solution is to simply change the line in dingbat.sty into
 \renewcommand{\checkmark}{\dingbat@sym{’104}}

addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fhermeschris.edublogs.org%2F2006%2F12%2F06%2Flatex-dingbatssty-checkmark-problem%2F’;
addthis_title = ‘Latex%2C+dingbats.sty+%5Ccheckmark+problem’;
addthis_pub = ”;

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There is a nice Debian package to view powerpoint presentations. It’s based on wine. You can find it here:
http://linuxappfinder.com/package/pptview
It’s not yet in the Ubuntu repositories.

addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fhermeschris.edublogs.org%2F2006%2F11%2F12%2Fdebianubuntu-and-powerpoint%2F’;
addthis_title = ‘Debian%2FUbuntu+and+Powerpoint’;
addthis_pub = ”;

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If you’re looking for a outstanding latex-to-doc/latex-to-rtf converter (there are really journals out there which want M$ Word documents, how disgusting), here is one:
http://latex2rtf.sourceforge.net/
Works very good! Keeps footnotes, bibliography, lists, quotes, etc. Just multline it didn’t get, as well as pstricks-pics.

addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fhermeschris.edublogs.org%2F2006%2F07%2F26%2Flatex2rtf%2F’;
addthis_title = ‘Latex2rtf’;
addthis_pub [...]

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An easy way to type some greek for your philosophy thesis in latex is to use betababel.sty. I found the tip here. For all people who got a headache with hyphenation of german text with babel: the solution for me was to use
\usepackage[ngerman,english]{metababel}

addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fhermeschris.edublogs.org%2F2006%2F07%2F25%2Flatex-and-greek%2F’;
addthis_title = ‘Latex+and+Greek’;
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I started a wiki for my sister, so that she can add her various Mindmaps. As she participates in Lütterfeld’s Aristotle - “Nikomachische Ethik” seminar each friday she thought about making some mindmaps. You can approach them here.
I like it a lot, as it’s very nicely structured as well as very detailed. It’s german language.

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