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Professor at the University of Hawaii

How to avoid warning messages from hyperref package in LaTex

\usepackage[unicode=true,pdfusetitle, bookmarks=true, bookmarksnumbered=false, bookmarksopen=false, breaklinks=false, pdfborder={0 0 1}, backref=false, colorlinks=false]{hyperref} \hypersetup{pdfauthor={Name}} Use of hyperref package in a LaTex script makes the manuscript more visually understandable, but it often gives warning message like Package hyperref Warning: Token not allowed in a … Continue reading

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command line dictionary and thesaurus

To use command line dictionary and thesaurus, execute the following command: sudo apt-get install dict dictd dict-gcide dict-moby-thesaurus And, try dict fundamental which will show the definitions and synonyms of “fundamental” on the terminal screen.

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How to generate a fixed format, sequential integers

The following bash script is to generate integers from 1 to 11, having 3-digit format. #!/bin/bash for i in `seq -f “%03g” 1 11` do echo $i done exit 0 The result is as follows. 001 002 003 004 005 … Continue reading

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Specific header settings of Emacs org-mode for LaTex export

#+LATEX_HEADER: \usepackage[margin=1.0in]{geometry} #+LATEX_HEADER: \usepackage[numbers,sort&compress,square]{natbib} #+latex_header: \usepackage{glossaries} #+latex_header: \makeglossaries #+latex_header: \usepackage{setspace} \singlespacing #+latex_header: \usepackage{enumitem} #+latex_header: \setlist[itemize]{noitemsep, topsep=0pt} #+latex_header: \setlist[enumerate]{noitemsep, topsep=0pt} #+OPTIONS: d:nil ^:nil H:2 toc:nil 1st line: setting all four side margins, 1 inch. 2nd line: natbib setup for numbered references … Continue reading

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Learn The Entire Python Language In A Single Image (link)

An interesting page that contains a single image for python language. Here. Image link: Here

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How to replace the 4th occurrence of a character in a file using sed

sed -i “s/\”/ \”/4″ myFile.txt The above command will replace the 4th occurrence of “ by “ in file “myFile.txt”, which is equivalent to putting a space in front of the 4th double quote.

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How to change an extension of many files

In a Linux terminal: $ for f in *.txt; do mv — “$f” “${f%.txt}.text”; done will rename all *.txt to *.text files.

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How to compile .tex file without stopping

Method 1: using pdflatex to generate a pdf file $ pdflatex -interaction nonstopmode myTexFile.tex Method 2: using latexmk to generate a dvi file. $ latexmk myTexFile.tex

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How to write output values to the standard output without carriage return in FORTRAN

How to write output values to the standard output without carriage return: program tstNoadv integer :: i do i = 1, 10 write(*,”(A1,I6.4,$)”) char(13), i call system(“sleep 1”) end do write(*,*) “Done” stop end program

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How to make a pdf output from LyX without opening LyX file

Suppose you have a LyX file, my_thesis.lyx, in the current directory. Then, simply execute a command: $ lyx -e pdf2 my_thesis.lyx This will generate an output PDF file: my_thesis.pdf. If a PDF file of the same name already exists, it … Continue reading

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