A few months back, I posted about my decision to use LaTeX for writing my thesis, in preference to Word or something of that ilk. I seem to get a few Google hits from other people interested in using LaTeX in the humanities, so I will occasionally post useful things I’ve gleaned, even though it […]
In a previous post I wondered whether the authors of the 1934 knock-out blow novel Invasion from the Air, Frank McIlraith and Roy Connolly, might have been left-wing, as the artist who (apparently) was supposed to illustrate the book was a communist. I hadn’t been able to turn up any biographical information about either of
Patahistory notes this horror story about a student having her USB drive stolen – and with it, her only copy of her nearly complete PhD thesis. Although she did manage to recover the drive, Dave suggests that this is a timely reminder to make backups. Absolutely! I work as an IT manager in an academic
From the just-because-I-can department. As an ex-physicist, I like to see numerical data plotted in a graph, as well as in tabular form – it’s much easier to visualise what’s going on. I don’t have any particular need for this right now, but I’ve been playing around with a few plotting packages anyway. The figure
Like about half the historioblogosphere,If Google is any guide, that word is original to me. I’m not proud of this. I’ve been playing with LibraryThing (where I am airminded, naturally enough). Well, more than playing – I’ve added just about all my books (even the dodgy pseudoscience and pseudohistory ones – I’m a paid-up skeptic,
As befits a self-respecting Unix geek, I’ve pretty much finally decided that I will write my thesis in LaTeX, and not in Word (which is what I have been using for the last few years). I am a bit nervous about this. Most historians, I’m sure, have never heard of it, and indeed the typical
