LATEX for Philosophers - University of Calgary

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Useful Tools: Bibliography Management • BibDesk is a bibliography manager which will even keep track of the corresponding PDFs for you (Mac only, included in MacTeX) • JabRef is cross-platform, so works on Windows and Linux as well. • Other reference managers like CiteULike, Mendeley, and Zotero can import and export BibTEX files. Conversion Tools • l2rtf is an online tool to convert L A TEX to RTF • pandoc can convert to and from dozens of formats (and it’s written by philosopher John MacFarlane!)—including L A TEX • TeX4HT is way for L A TEX to output HTML insteadof PDF—and it also can output OpenDocument format. • Write2LaTeX is an extension that lets LibreOffice export to L A TEX • Use these and Word/LibreOffice to do a word count, or directly using texcount. 4 Packages You Should Look At Layout: memoir • memoir is a document class for producing anything from articles to books • It provides ability to customize layout of your document, chapter and section headings, etc. • It includes many useful packages which relate to layout of: – tables – tables of contents – page headers – endnotes Linking: hyperref • Put hyperlinks to websites in your documents • Automatically put in-document links from TOC to sections, citations to bibliography, etc. • Also lets you set options in the final PDF such as bookmarks, pagemode, title, author, etc. 8
Bibliographies: natbib • The “standard” way to do bibliographic references • Supports author-year style: – \citep{Quine1951} produces a parenthetical citation: (Quine 1951) – \citet{Quine1951} produces an in-text citation: Quine (1951) • Works with BibTEX to turn bibliography databases into bibliographies for your document • Most journals have bibliography styles that work with natbib Bibliographies: biblatex • The modern way to do bibliographies in L A TEX • Supports not only author-year style but also in-text citations and footnoted references (footnotes contain bibliographic information, no separate bibliography) • Supports bibliography databases in the cloud • Journals unlikely to support biblatex yet • Most conversion programs don’t work Presentations: beamer • Produces presentations as PDFs (use full-screen mode) • Comes with many predefined themes • Lets audience track progress through presentation • Generate handout and presentation from same document • Supports overlays 5 Conclusion Conclusion • It’s good to know what L A TEX is—even if you don’t want to use it—and now you do • You might have to or want to use it some or most of the time – Lots of people use it, even some publishers 9
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