Tag: tex
I recently found myself needing to excise all of the type 3 fonts from
a TeX document. I believe that type 3 fonts are actually just
embedded postscript, which is less than ideal for a nice PDF.
Obviously, I would never intentionally include a type 3 font, so some
other tool in my toolchain must have been adding them. Eventually, I
figured out that they were sneaking in through some matplotlib graphs.
I found a nice description of the
problem. The solution I chose was to tell matplotlib to us…
I am currently working on the talk slides for my thesis proposal. My
preferred presentation medium is LaTeX Beamer -- a documentclass for
generating slides. It gives you access to the usual selection of
excellent LaTeX tools. Many argue that most of what LaTeX gives you
is exactly what you do not want in a presentation:
Ease of content generation without worrying about formatting
Easy abuse of well-typeset math
Lots of bullet points
While it is true that you can use these tools to make the …
A few days ago I was looking for a more robust type-aware
cross-reference helper macro for LaTeX. This type of macro lets you
specify something like:
\autoref{fig:tuna}
Assuming fig:tuna is the fifth figure, this macro will produce
"figure 5". This is very convenient if the type of a reference might
change. Previously I had used
hyperref
but it was a bit of a pain to customize and it was not obvious how to
get good list output.
I was pointed to
cleveref,
which is easily customiza…