If you havent tried out Beamer for making your presentations (especially ``equation-heavy'' presentations), you should. Here is my short introduction to Beamer [PPT]
Read my automatic backups with ssh and rsync howto here. A part of it describes how to ssh without
passwords.
Q. Your CV is so beautifully typeset! How did you make it? A. I
wish to acknowledge RPI
for their LaTex resume template. I used it as a starting point.
List of Latex tips, tricks and annoyances (under construction, but meanwhile...)
Q. pdftex produces A4 sized output in Ubuntu, how to fix it? (horrified to discover this After I prepared my CV)
A1. In every latex file you ever write, add
\special{papersize=8.5in,11in}
\setlength{\pdfpageheight}{\paperheight}
\setlength{\pdfpagewidth}{\paperwidth}
A2. OR run texconfig as superuser and choose USLetter as default paper size
Q. Why doesnt copy-paste from Firefox to Emacs work in Ubuntu?
A. Because by default things are copied to clipboard in every other application but Emacs has its own "kill-ring" from which \C-y (yanking) pastes things. To rectify this add
(global-set-key "\C-w" 'clipboard-kill-region)
(global-set-key "\M-w" 'clipboard-kill-ring-save)
(global-set-key "\C-y" 'clipboard-yank)
To your .emacs file
Q. How do I check for repeated repeated words in a tex file?
A. Regex to the rescue
cat file_to_be_checked | tr \\n ' ' | egrep [[:space:]]\([a-zA-Z]+\)[[:space:]]+\\1[[:space:]]+ -o
Q. How to I embed and subset all fonts in my PDF file?
A. Use Ghostscript to do the job for you
gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=processed_file.pdf your_paper_generated_by_pdftex.pdf
