The procedural aspects of LaTeX markup naturally suggests a connection with scripting languages. Any anyone serious about writing with strutural markup will eventually benefit with some familiarity with a scripting language, be it Perl, Ruby, Lua or what have you. (I have been learning Ruby.) Larry Wall author of Perl has written some reflections on […]
Navigating the command line on Apple’s terminal can be frustrating. The arrow keys only allow you to move one character at a time. So if you have typed a long command, say:
$ perl texWordCount.pl /Users/markkalderon/Documents/TheHub/Research/Metamerism/Drafts/metamerism.tex
and you realize you have forgotten an option, in this case -T:
$ perl -T texWordCount.pl /Users/markkalderon/Documents/TheHub/Research/Metamerism/Drafts/metamerism.tex
it can be tedious to move […]
In an earlier post I described a TextMate command for determining the word count for a LaTeX document. Simpling using
wc -w
gives an inflated estimate since it will include LaTeX commands. One alternative is to use detex:
detex mydocument.tex | wc -w
This will strip the LaTeX commands first before counting words but this assumes that you are […]
While I have been a happy subversion user, there are some areas that are a continual source of frustration. No commits offline. Limited merging facilities. (See my earlier post.) The limitations on merging is the serious issue for me. Prose production presents opportunities for merging that subverion cannot handle (at least at present). Distributed version […]
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