Archive for Vienna
für die menschen Rechte! [Volkshilfe].
Posted in pictures, Running, Travel with tags Austria, refugees, street art, Vienna, Volkshilfe, Wien on September 28, 2017 by xi'an
Kürbissuppe trilogy
Posted in pictures, Running, Travel with tags Austria, Café Landtmann, jatp, Kürbisse, pumpkin, soup, Vienna, viennese cafés, Wien on September 24, 2017 by xi'an
Gaußplatz [jatp]
Posted in pictures, Running, Travel with tags Austria, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Gaussplatz, jatp, running, Vienna, Wien on September 22, 2017 by xi'an
snapshot from Vienna [jatp]
Posted in Statistics with tags Austria, church, jatp, Peterkirche, Vienna, Wien on September 21, 2017 by xi'an
LaTeX issues from Vienna
Posted in Books, Statistics, University life with tags bibliography, BibTeX, Book, Dropbox, George Casella, handbook of mixture analysis, LaTeX, Linux, mixtures of distributions, Vienna, Windows, WU Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien on September 21, 2017 by xi'an
When working on the final stage of our edited handbook on mixtures, in Vienna, I came across unexpected practical difficulties! One was that by working on Dropbox with Windows users, files and directories names suddenly switched from upper case to lower cases letters !, making hard-wired paths to figures and subsections void in the numerous LaTeX files used for the book. And forcing us to change to lower cases everywhere. Having not worked under Windows since George Casella gave me my first laptop in the mid 90’s!, I am amazed that this inability to handle both upper and lower names is still an issue. And that Dropbox replicates it. (And that some people see that as a plus.)
The other LaTeX issue that took a while to solve was that we opted for one chapter one bibliography, rather than having a single bibliography at the end of the book, mainly because CRC Press asked for this feature in order to sell chapters individually… This was my first encounter with this issue and I found the solutions to produce individual bibliographies incredibly heavy handed, whether through chapterbib or bibunits, since one has to bibtex one .aux file for each chapter. Even with a one line bash command,
for f in bu*aux; do bibtex `basename $f .aux`; done
this is annoying in the extreme!
