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How to generate nice nomenclatures in LaTeX

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If you have to write up your model results, often you have to write down the model documentation. My colleague at work pointed me to a great package in LaTeX that can make your life easier with respect to the nomenclature used. It allows you to produce a glossary with all your variables, parameters and acronyms without much extra work. The package is called “nomencl” and here is an example of a pdf generated with LaTeX:

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Presentation, Article and Notes in one run using Beamer

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Still using Powerpoint for your presentation? Consider using LaTeX with the Beamer package.
 
Tom Rutherford taught me how to build an efficient stream for a presentation or lecture:
  1. generate the presentation with beamer,
  2. generate the presentation as an article and
  3. clean up all the stuff
All this in one batch file. The presentation is projected on the big screen and the article is used for preparation and for notes, I use during my prepartation (I have a printout of the article next to my laptop during the presentation)
 
The batch (build.bat) file looks like this:
 
@echo off
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Auto-Completion in Emacs, LaTeX and Gams

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The fun with Emacs is that you can discover new (or old) stuff that makes your life much easier on an almost weekly base. I was reading the manual on Emacs Speaks Statistics and discovered that there is a mode called auto-completion. I googled it, installed it and after some experimenting, I got it running. You can find it here. It comes with autocompletion for some programming languages (Python, Ruby, C+, etc.) but not for LaTeX, so I googled further and discovered an extension called auto-complete-latex (you can download it here.
Here are some screenshots: You just start
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Bibliography with abstracts in LaTeX

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If you ever have written a scientific paper, you probably know how hard it is to remember what was in the papers you cited. Usually you cite them once and forget about them, but if you want to discuss your paper with other scientist, it would be nice to have at least an idea of what you exactly cited.
In LaTeX you have a nice way of producing a bibliography with abstracts. It is quite easy. You only have to use biblatex, an improved bibtex. Information on biblatex can be found at the CTAN repository (just google it). There are
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Using Gams, R and LaTeX I

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Wow, I just discovered how easy it is to produce nice LaTeX tables from your Gams results. Usually I capture my model results in some parameters that are exported (using gdx or gdxxrw) to excel. Then I make my tables in Excel and use an excel add-in to export the table to LaTeX (I have written about this add-in in this blog). This works fine, but is tedious because as soon as my results are in excel, I can’t do things automatically and have to click my way to get my LaTeX tables.
Today, I was working on the parking
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