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Latex, dingbats.sty \checkmark problem

hermeschris — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 08:02:04 +0000

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}}

Debian/Ubuntu and Powerpoint

hermeschris — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 13:39:42 +0000

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.

Latex2rtf

hermeschris — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 17:19:58 +0000

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.

Latex and Greek

hermeschris — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 22:51:08 +0000

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}

Sabrina’s Aristotle Mindmaps

hermeschris — Sun, 21 May 2006 15:00:34 +0000

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.