I recently found a subtle bug in biber 2.1 that drove me crazy. It seems that biber 2.1 silently fails for certain Latex macros that it should convert into UTF-8. In particular the “\l” macro (Polish ł) is one; I’m still finding more. Here’s a minimal working (well, failing) example: \documentclass[12pt]{article} \usepackage[american]{babel} \usepackage{csquotes} \usepackage[backend=biber,style=apa,doi=false,url=false,hyperref=true,apamaxprtauth=100]{biblatex} […]
I’ve recently had need to compile SRILM on my Mac, which runs OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). I have Mac Ports installed but found that I had to change to the out-of-box C/C++ compiler in order to get SRILM to compile. It was simple: in common/Makefile.machine.macosx I simply changed CC = cc $(GCC_FLAGS) CXX = c++ […]
My laptop died recently, and I am stuck with a new hard drive and a fresh OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) installation. I wanted to install lme4.0. This turned out to be trickier than I’d expected, because Xcode 5.0 doesn’t include a Fortran compiler. This can be solved by installing a Fortran compiler from http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/tools/. Many […]
I often want to make a PDF version of Word documents I’m writing, but when there are differently formatted sections the Word document spits out multiple PDFs. To fix this so that you get only one PDF out, do the following: 1) Open File->Page Setup… 2) From the “Settings” dropdown box on the resulting window, […]
Despite all the advantages of pdflatex, I still do a lot of LaTeX writing in which I take the latex -> dvips -> ps2pdf route. This is primarily because of pstricks, which I use for drawing syntactic trees, dependency graphs, and various pictures that I’ve already written out. (I’ve never had complete success with the […]
findUnix find is a powerful tool, but I always forget how to use it. I’ve recently found my favorite page ever on a wide variety of examples of use: I hope that this is as useful to you as it is to me! Also, FWIW I have recently found recoll to be a very powerful […]
After 4.5 years of struggling with OS X’s input source menu, I have finally figured out how to bind key combinations to selection of specific input sources (read: English, traditional Chinese through Pinyin, Japanese Hiragana, …). Here are the steps: Note the specific names of the input sources on the input menu you want to […]
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Dear Senator Kyl: I grew up in Arizona and now live in California. My mother and many of my childhood friends still live and vote in Arizona. Today on Face the Nation (about 6:45 in) you criticized Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik for suggesting that vitriolic public discourse may have played a role in inciting […]
Dear Sheriff Dupnik, I grew up in Tucson, graduated from University High School in 1991 (I overlapped with Gabrielle Giffords for one year in high school, though I didn’t know her), and now live in San Diego. I have been following media coverage of the shooting of Congresswoman Giffords and others, and I have listened […]