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Review "An Efficiency Comparison of Document Preparation Systems Used in Academic Research and Development"

Published on December 26, 2014.

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This post was previous published at blog.rgaiacs.com. Some links might got broken during the conversion from reStructuredText to Markdown.

Today someone email of of the mailing list that I subscribed about a article wrote by Markus Knauff and Jelica Nejasmic with the title "An Efficiency Comparison of Document Preparation Systems Used in Academic Research and Development" and published at PLOS ONE. This is a open access journal so if you want to read the article before read this post just click on the first link and enjoy the article.

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Org Mode and Literate Programming

Published on December 17, 2014.

Last week Diego and I taught a Sofware Carpentry workshop at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. During the workshop, Diego mention knirt, a tool for literate programming with Markdown and R. After the workshop I googled and found that you can use GNU Emacs for literate programming. This post is about how to do it.

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I will leave for another post to talk about knitr vs Org Mode.

Emacs

First you will need to install Emacs.

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Software Carpentry Workshop at UFSC

Published on December 13, 2014.

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This post was previous published at blog.rgaiacs.com. Some links might got broken during the conversion from reStructuredText to Markdown.

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I would like to thanks to Diego Barneche for the invitation to be one of the instructors of the first Software Carpentry workshop at the Federal University of Santa Catarina.

Diego, I like very much met you in person and love the time in Florianópolis.

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Also, I wouldd like to thanks Renato Morais Araujo and Juliano A. Bogoni, the local organizer, for the iniciative and hard work to make this workshop possible.

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Cross-reference Comparison

Published on December 2, 2014.

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This post is part of a reply to Authorea message on Twitter.

Authorea message mentions Peter Krautzberger’s post and Alberto Pepe and Nathan Jenkins' post.

From Wikipedia:

The term cross-reference can refer to either:

  • An instance within a document which refers to related information elsewhere in the same document.

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This blog post is a comparison of (math) cross-reference with Text Processor (e.g. Writer from LibreOffice), LaTeX and HTML.

LibreOffice

Text processors are great. They are easy to use, can be edit in almost any platform, and in last years you can also use it for high typographic quality works.

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Pandas at CTBE

Published on November 28, 2014.

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This post was previous published at blog.rgaiacs.com. Some links might got broken during the conversion from reStructuredText to Markdown.

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I would like to thanks Marcelo Valadar for the invitation to taught a Pandas introduction at CTBE.

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I would like to thanks very much to Wanderson Luiz that help me solving the issues that the students had during the lesson. I hope that he finishs his PhD soon and after that get involved with Software Carpentry to have fun helping researchers to program (even with MATLAB).

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