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The “Motion 6” Bind
I’ve been following the 2009 Annual General Meeting of the Canadian Federation of Students, where (more-or-less) 2/3 of the delegates voted in favor of Motion 6, a motion that make members defederation much more difficult. The first clause of Motion 6 is “Raising the petition requirement from 10% to 20% of students in the member… Read more
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Spellchecking LaTeX in MacOSX
How to spell-check a LaTeX document with specialized dictionary in TeXShop. TeXshop makes use of the default spell-check service of OSX, and this is somewhat problematic when you’re writing manuscripts. Between keywords and specialized vocabulary, just about every word is underlined: What would be nice is if we can: I think both are possible… Read more
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Writing Chemistry with LaTeX (1/3)
Branching from the core series of LaTeX introduction, here is a specialized series on writing chemistry papers and dissertations in . In this part, we will download, open, and clean up a RSC template, yielding a cleaner framework for writing. Joseph Wright has published some amazing tools for writing chemistry with LaTeX, and they make… Read more
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Bests-and-Messes: Best Reading in 2009
Best Books I read ~100 books a year for pleasure. These are the best books I’ve read this year (not necessarily published in 2009). Hugo Heclo, On Thinking Institutionally.My favorite book of the year, Heclo articulated many things central to my world-view that I did not have a name for. The following quote illustrates the… Read more
