Tag Archives: LaTeX
LaTeX-SVG-to-PDF as git submodule
I’ve mentioned previously that I’ve got a large project in \(\LaTeX\) and while I was using Dropbox as a pseudo revision control and external backup. However, I’ve since been persuaded that a proper revision control system with meaningful commit message is a better way of tracking progress and changes. So I’ve moved the project to [...]
Print your own John Carter
I’ve been coming across quite a few references to Edgar Rice Burroughs’ book “A Princess of Mars” over the past couple of months, from being the story behind Disney’s upcoming film “John Carter of Mars”, to being a classic science fiction text that has inspired many creators. So when it appeared again, as I was [...]
LaTeX-SVG-to-PDF now compatible with LaTeX Project Structure Guidelines
I’ve pushed a couple up updates to LaTeX-SVG-to-PDF that come from some changes I made to my largest LaTeX project file. Since I converted a long (>100 pages) document from Microsoft Word format to LaTeX, I’ve now split the file down into the separate chapters for easier editing that are all \include{}‘d or \input{}‘d from [...]
LaTeX + SVGs to PDFs
Source of the LaTeX+SVGs to PDF makefile is available to download, use, change, tinker and fork at Github. I wrote last week about how figures can be transfered from a Microsoft Word document into a LaTeX document by extracting them as vector images using Inkscape, and saved as Scalable Vector Graphic files (SVG). Unfortunately, SVG [...]
Converting Word documents to LaTeX
Wwhy bother converting in the first place? In my case it’s because I’ve a large document thatneeds revisions; and I don’t want to have to fight with Word again to get it ready for printing. Using LaTeX sepatates the content from the format, so I can concentrate on words, and let LaTeX place the page-breaks, [...]