BibTeX hacks

Sometimes \(\LaTeX\) compilation can give fairly unhelpful error messages like these: ! Missing $ inserted. $ l.190 ... pp. 225--236, 10.1007/978-3-642-31340-0_19 18. [Online]. ? If these error message are in .bbl file, when you are using BibTeX (.bib file) for bibliography...

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Useful LaTeX tricks

\(\LaTeX\) word count It can get difficult to keep track of accurate number of words in a \(\LaTeX\) document. TeXcount is a script for counting words in text and math equations in LaTeX documents. It can also generate very detailed html output with color-coded words types. TeXcount is part of Tex live and can be installed by installing...

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Git cheat sheet

Git overview: Operation and File lifecycle Image are hotlinked from Pro Git book, written by Scott Chacon. Some of the commands listed here may use alias and/or configuration defined in ~/.gitconfig (see near the end of the post). (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); General operations Help with git: git...

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Dropbox Bug?

UPDATE: This is an expected behavior of dropbox. See relevant discussion at Dropbox Forums. It seems that there is a dropbox bug which may affect the recovery of deleted files and folders in this specific situation. I will try to document and elaborate my observations in this post. In short, dropbox seems to be not able to recover a deleted...

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