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Portugees bezoek

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Dikkie
on April 6, 2007
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Interessant bezoek dezer dagen bij ons op het werk. Tijdens de hele paasvakantie hebben we een Portugese gastonderzoekster hier en bij de bio-ingenieurs rondlopen die in dezelfde branche onderzoek doet als ik. Ik was haar al eens tegengekomen op een congres afgelopen zomer, maar toen is praten er niet van gekomen. Gisteren ben ik ermee gaan eten en het was leuk. Interessant gebabbeld en achteraf nog a Belgian Beer gaan drinken. Volgend weekend ga ik haar ook nog wat van Antwerpen laten zien, want daar moet je absoluut geweest zijn natuurlijk ;-) Very nice en zeer goed voor de connecties!

LaTeX: indentation itemize

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Dikkie
on March 8, 2007
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Ever wondered how to change the indentation in the LaTeX itemize environment? Well, it can’t. When you use the itemize environment in LaTeX your items (\item) will automatically be indented about 2em. Sometimes however (like me yesterday), this indentation is not needed and you want the items in you list to be aligned as the text. However in that case you will have to use the list environment. This is a general environment that can be used for any kind of list and of which the itemize is a special case. To generate an itemize without identation use the following code:

\begin{list}{\labelitemi}{\leftmargin=1em}
\item First item in the list
\item Second item
\item and so on
\end{list}
For more information on the list environment, check this website

TexnicCenter and Adobe Reader 8.0

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Dikkie
on February 16, 2007
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(For my Dutch speaking readers: this post containing work related stuff on a technical software communication problem is meant to help out people over the globe and therefore written in English.)

Those of you who make use of the mathematical typesetting tool MikTeX (or a similar version) combined with the use of some version of the editor TexnicCenter will have noticed that troubles occur when viewing your pdf document in the new Adobe Reader 8.0. Nothing goes wrong when opening and viewing your document, but the minute you want to close the Adobe Reader or recompile your document in the TexnicCenter editor, an “Unknown Software Exception (0xc000000d) at location 0×7813892c” is thrown. The error itself is not much to worry about, but in my case it messed up my Firefox PDF plugin. The error is due to the fact that in your TexnicCenter output profiles the DDE commands you pass through to Adobe Reader 8.0 aren’t correct. These need therefore to be altered and this can be done as follows.

Go to Build -> Define Output Profiles in the menu bar of TexnicCenter or press Alt-F7. For the profiles that build a pdf file (most likely the profiles “LaTeX => PDF” and “LaTeX => PS => PDF”) go to the viewer tab. Here you have to alter three fields:

  1. In the field View project’s output enable the option DDE command, delete whatever command there is in the next line and write there: [DocOpen("%bm.pdf")][DocOpen("%bm.pdf")]
  2. In the field Forward Search enable the option DDE command, delete whatever command there is in the next line and write there:
    [DocOpen("%bm.pdf")][DocOpen("%bm.pdf")]
  3. In the field Close document before running (La)TeX enable the option DDE command, delete whatever command there is in the next line and write there:
    [DocOpen("%bm.pdf")][DocOpen("%bm.pdf")][DocClose("%bm.pdf")]

That should solve your problems.

Update: If the problem isn’t solved, check the quotation marks. They probably weren’t copied correctly. If that doesn’t work, you could try the following lines: [DocOpen("%bm.pdf")][FileOpen("%bm.pdf")] for point 1 and 2; [DocClose("%bm.pdf")] for point 3. That’s what my newest TexnicCenter filled in automatically for me and it works with Reader 8.1.2. If you still have problems check underneath each DDE command the “Server” and the “Topic”. In those boxes “acroview” and “control” should be filled out respectively (thx Maarten for pointing that out in the commets).

Dikke-truiendag

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Dikkie
on February 16, 2007
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Vandaag doen we hier op de KULeuven aan dikke-truiendag, maar ik merk er eerlijk gezegd niet zo veel van. Het is precies zelfs warmer dan normaal. Ik heb een gewone trui aan ik ga ze zo meteen uitzwieren denk ik. De technische dienst zal de knop weer naar de verkeerde kant gedraaid hebben ;-)