Following up on Outlook E-Mails in Org-Mode

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The combination of Org-Mode and Remember-Mode helps me to organize my projects. One special task category is “WAIT”, if I have to wait for some input from somebody else or waiting for a delivery to arrive. An example is ordering a book at Amazon. As soon as I make the order, I generate a “WAIT” which would look like this

** WAIT [#C] [2014-09-16 Tu] Book on Modeling by Morgan

In this case, I ordered the book on September 9th and it has not a high priority. Once a week I check this category in a customized agenda view which … Read the rest “Following up on Outlook E-Mails in Org-Mode”

Using Preview for LaTeX documents in Emacs

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Editing LaTeX documents with lots of equations can be sometimes hard if you want to refer to the equations in the text. You can use, if you have a big monitor, put the compiled file to the right of your editor, but on a notebook this is not a good option. If you use AucTex in Emacs, you can use the preview mode.

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Here is the text without preview in Emacs And here it is with preview.

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You can set the display options in the Option Group “AucTex” under “Preview Appearance”. One more thing: I always compile to pdf (not … Read the rest “Using Preview for LaTeX documents in Emacs”

Automating writing LaTeX papers even further

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In an earlier post I wrote on how to use R to produce all kind of figures and tables for a LaTeX paper. This time, I will show, how to automate this process even more.

My work flow consists of a batch file, that runs my model, sends the results to R, produces my tables and figures and sends these to my paper: If I change my model, I just have to run this batch file, and the results in my paper are automatically adjusted. One smaller problem is that I often write in my text on a specific value … Read the rest “Automating writing LaTeX papers even further”

Removing extra blank lines in Emacs

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If you want to get rid of extra blank lines in your text files, you can use the search and replace commands with regular expressions. However, for whatever reason, this does not work properly on my Windows machine.

Fortunately, I found a nice function definition at stackoverflow which does the job:

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