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Tuesday, July 23, 2013

A Light Colour Theme for Beamer Poster

(Yes it’s been a while. I’ve started working and adapting to the new pace!)

So quite a (long) while ago, I posted my sample beamer poster, while preparing for a conference poster. Now I’ve got another poster to present, and the previous colour schemes just did not go well with the logos. Hence I started tinkering around with the colours, and finally settled on this light, subtle palette:

Blown_Entrepreneur
Color by COLOURlovers.

The sample poster looks like these (shown together with the existing two other colour themes):


And here’s a thumbnail of the actual poster:


Source code of the sample files (including Beamer themes and colours) can be downloaded here.

Thursday, April 25, 2013

Sunday, March 24, 2013

WriteLaTeX - cloud based LaTeX compiler/editor

I found out this online service. Anyone is currently using it? Please drop your comment here.
I currently still prefers github for LaTeX collaboration - or mercurial, subversion. 

But somehow you may have specific reason for using any cloud based LaTeX editor/collaboration service.

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Extracting Only Cited Bibliography Entries

Occasionally, while exchanging files with collaborators or submitting articles, I’d like to extract a smaller .bib file from my main, “hold-all” bibliography file, i.e. containing only the entries that I’d actually cited in my document.

Fortunately this can be done fairly automatically using the bibexport tool. Quick rundown:
  1. Compile your document, say myarticle.tex the usual way, with your “big” allrefs.bib file.
  2. Run bibexport with the following:
    bibexport -o extracted.bib myarticle
    extracted.bib should now contain only the bibliography entries that were cited in myarticle.tex.
  3. Change \bibliography{allrefs.bib} to \bibliography{extracted.bib} in myarticle.tex.
  4. Send myarticle.tex and extracted.bib to collaborator or editor!