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String Formatting

Posted on 2021-09-21 by jcs

One of the things we programmers do all the time is to build strings of the sort In a survey of 342 programmers, 312 preferred Emacs. where the two numbers and the string “Emacs” are variables. If, like me, you … Continue reading →

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Org-ref-cite Video

Posted on 2021-08-09 by jcs

Yesterday, we took a quick look at the new Org-cite functionality. It’s been merged into Master and will doubtless see its official release with Org 9.5. In the mean time, John Kitchin is busy reimagining his wonderful org-ref package to … Continue reading →

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Org Cite

Posted on 2021-08-08 by jcs

As I’ve said before, one of the worst parts of preparing a paper for publication is dealing with the bibliography. LaTeX has reasonably efficient ways of inserting and referencing citations but there’s been no effective way of using them from … Continue reading →

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Research Tools for the Beginner

Posted on 2020-10-06 by jcs

Kieran Haley, a Sociologist at Duke has an interesting paper that provides advice on research tools for beginning graduate students—or perhaps for brand new faculty members—in the social sciences. Haley has a Uses This profile that gives a précis of … Continue reading →

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An Org Mode Workflow for Spacemacs

Posted on 2020-02-21 by jcs

Over at OutOfCheeseError there’s a useful discussion of an Org-mode workflow for Spacemacs. If you’re a member of the Spacemacs sect, you should take a look. Interestingly, the post is part of his .spacemacs file so it’s pretty much always … Continue reading →

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Scimax and Reproducibility

Posted on 2019-11-25 by jcs

The College of Engineering at Carnegie Mellon has an interesting article on their Web site about John Kitchin and his work on Scimax. I’ve written about Scimax several times (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7) so longtime Irreal readers … Continue reading →

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Four Org-mode Talks

Posted on 2019-09-19 by jcs

The SF Emacs Meetup group has a video of one of their recent meetings featuring talks by four Org-mode users. The middle two talks, Tikhon Elvis on reveal.js and Jeff Tull on Org Babel, are elementary overviews. They’ll be useful … Continue reading →

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Literature Management with Emacs

Posted on 2019-04-26 by jcs

I saw a query that had a link to a post from a couple of years ago that I missed at the time. It’s by Anand Iyer who is—or, perhaps, was—a graduate student and therefore is constantly reading papers. When … Continue reading →

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Zamansky: GitHub Classroom 2

Posted on 2019-02-18 by jcs

Mike Zamansky has another video out on how he uses GitHub Classroom for teaching. Like the first, it’s not really about Emacs—although he does use Emacs in the process, of course—but it’s an interesting study on a tools-based approach to … Continue reading →

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Sharing Data Among Org-mode Blocks

Posted on 2019-02-13 by jcs

John Kitchin has another excellent post on leveraging Emacs and Org-mode. This time, he considers sharing data between Org-mode code blocks. Most Org-mode users know about naming code blocks and using the results of the computation in another code block … Continue reading →

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