There is a clash between the current versions of the geometry package and the beamer class. So if you update all your packages and try to process a beamer document you will get the following error.
! Undefined control sequence.
\Gm@lmargin ->\Geom@lmargin
This is due to a new version of geometry (v5.0).
Until the geometry package developers fix the [...]
Posts about LaTeX
LaTeX error in beamer
Mar 1
Using Google Reader
Feb 16
Google Reader is a fantastic way to keep track of new papers that are appearing in many different journals, and also to follow some of the interesting research blogs (and blogs on other topics) that are out there. Google Reader checks websites for you and lets you know of any new material that appears. Instead of [...]
Top four LaTeX mistakes
Feb 16
There is a nice post today by John Cook on the top four LaTeX mistakes. I see these all the time in draft papers by my students and co-authors.
It can be frustrating trying to get your figures and tables to appear where you want them in a LaTeX document. Sometimes, they just seem to float off onto another page of their own accord. Here is a collection of tools and ideas that help you get control of those pesky floats.
Squeezing space with LaTeX
Oct 14
I’ve been writing a grant application with a 10-page limit, and as usual it is difficult to squeeze everything in. No, I can’t just change the font as it has to be 12 point with at least 2 cm margins on an A4 page. Fortunately, LaTeX is packed full of powerful features that help in [...]
Converting eps to pdf
Oct 1
Now that there is a way to sync a pdf file and tex file in both directions, the only remaining reason to use dvi files is when the graphics are in eps format.
However, that problem has also been solved for those using MikTeX 2.8 or TeXLive 2009. In MikTeX 2.8, simply include the package epstopdf [...]
LaTeX help on StackOverflow
Aug 24
Having discovered StackOverflow for R, I can also recommend it as a great place to go for LaTeX help. Just look under the latex tag on StackOverflow. It is far easier than asking a question on one of the LaTeX mailing lists and the answers seem to be of high quality.
If you use LaTeX, then you probably have a bib file — a data base of all the papers and books that you have cited. It is much more efficient to keep one database in one location, than have multiple copies of it floating around your hard drive. (Or even worse, have different bib files [...]
All researchers need to maintain a database of papers they have read, cited, or simply noted for later reference. For those of us using LaTeX, the database is in the BibTeX format and is stored as a simple text file (a bib file) that can be edited using a text editor such as WinEdt.
But it [...]
Being able to go from a line in WinEdt to the corresponding place in a compiled document is extremely useful and saves a lot of time. This has long been possible using Yap with dvi documents, but Yap is slow and ugly and the dvi files usually have to be converted to pdf before sending [...]
