Adjusting large figures using LaTeX
Friday, May 3rd, 2013 Commands, Software adjustment, figure, gummi, LaTeX, page, PhD, thesis, writing None
Typesetting my thesis I came across this problem:
I had a large figure (containing many panes) I wanted to print on one page with a caption underneath.
Writer2LaTeX
Friday, March 22nd, 2013 Commands, Software, University of Oslo gummi, LaTeX, LibreOffice, PhD, thesis, UiO, writing None
So, it’s finally time to start typesetting my PhD thesis. I decided to go with LaTeX. Main reason: avoid format fuck-ups. The University of Oslo has their own PhD document class. The guidelines can be found here: http://www.mn.uio.no/ifi/tjenester/it/hjelp/latex/uiophd.html
Now, my supervisors are not really familiar with LaTeX, which makes it hard to collaborate on these documents. However, writing documents in LibreOffice Writer and then converting them to tex-files which can be linked together and compiled into one “thesis document” proved quite easy. I just installed Writer2LaTeX. Here is how I got it to work with LibreOffice (in Ubuntu):
- Download Writer2LaTeX extension from this place
http://writer2latex.sourceforge.net/index11.html - Install the downloaded extension in LibreOffice (Tools -> Extension Manager -> Add)
- I got an error message and it looked like it had something to do with Java, so I ran this line (in terminal) to install some missing packages
sudo apt-get install openoffice.org-java-common - Finally I enabled the Writer2LaTeX extension and now I’m all set.
(BTW – If the extension doesn’t appear in the manager at this step, try installing it once again)
If you’re an Ubuntu user like me – check out Gummi. Real neat for editing LaTeX.
http://dev.midnightcoding.org/projects/gummi
Disk image from .nrg to .iso
So, I had this disk image of a game I used to play before I converted to Linux. The image was burned using Nero. To be able to install the game under wine in Ubuntu I converted it to an iso-image following these steps:
- Install nrg2iso:
sudo apt-get nrg2iso - Convert file:
nrg2iso filename.nrg filename.iso
That’s it folks :-)
Polar pulse watch, infrared communication and Ubuntu
Tuesday, December 11th, 2012 Commands, Leisure, Software irDA, Polar, ProTrainer 5, pulse watch, RS800CX, USB None
Got this Polar pulse watch (RS800CX) a while back. With it came the ProTraniner 5 software – not particularly “Linux-friendly” I’m afraid… However, it works fine under wine. To download the data from the watch and sync it with my ProTrainer diary, I had to get the IrDA USB-dongle working. After browsing through various how-to threads, gathering bits and pieces from here and there, I got it working! Since I wasn’t able to find an easy guide out there, I decided to write one myself:
Printing at UiO via internet
Monday, December 10th, 2012 Commands, University of Oslo cups2priss, print, printer, UiO 1 comment
These notes were made after following the UiO guidelines found here.
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