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Matthew Skala's academic publications

Bibliographic information and links. (31 December 2009)

Bonobo Conspiracy's Quick Guide to the LaTeX \linebreak command

Okay, one more time. (16 July 2009)

Japanese, Korean, KDE 3.5, Slackware Linux, and LaTeX

I recently started studying Japanese, and so I wanted my computer to work in Japanese too - if nothing else so I could use it to prepare study aids. I use a home-brewed configuration of Slackware Linux (effectively "Linux From Scratch," though I didn't actually follow that project's how-to documents) and I wanted the Japanese stuff to work nicely with the rest of my configuration, including the application software and tools I already use for Canadian English. And I wanted to typeset in Japanese with LaTeX. That meant it wasn't as simple as just choosing "Japanese" during installation of one of the more entry-level distributions. Here are some notes on what I had to do, which may be helpful for others in similar situations.

(5 July 2009)

PDF/PNG Astrological Chart Service

This form generates nice-looking astrological charts in PDF or PNG format. It's mostly a demonstration of my horoscop and starfont astrological typesetting packages for LaTeX, but the hope is that the charts will also be useful for general purposes even for non-users of horoscop. They compare favorably to those generated by the other free online chart systems I'm aware of. This system does not provide any interpretation; for that you'll have to look elsewhere. See the FAQ for instructions, privacy and other notices, and other information.

(29 June 2008)

Unofficial University of Waterloo Thesis Template

Here's a template (ZIP format) created by stripping most of the content out of my PhD thesis source code to leave just the formatting. If you're using LaTeX to typeset a thesis for the University of Waterloo, especially in computer science, you might find this helpful. No warranties, but as far as I know it meets the current GSO formatting requirements. My thesis made with it passed their review on the first try. It's also supposed to look good, to the extent possible within the requirements. I got some favourable comments from my committee members on the formatting of my thesis, so I think I was at least sort of successful on that score. It comes with documentation on how to use it. You will need at least an intermediate level of LaTeX knowledge, because it uses a bunch of external packages for fonts and so on. I'm releasing it to public domain.

(24 June 2008)

Typesetting astrology with LaTeX

Resources for typesetting astrological documents with LaTeX. NEW: initial beta release of my "horoscop" package for typesetting wheel charts. (2 May 2008)

LaTeX tips and tricks

Every so often there's something I want to do with LaTeX for which I can't find a solution in the usual sources. This page is to record the answers to such problems for my own future reference and to help others who might be searching the Web for them. (26 October 2007)

How to concatenate PDFs without pain

In my work I recently had a situation where I needed to concatenate several PDF files into one big PDF file.  That turns out to be a much harder problem than it sounds, and the Web isn't as helpful in solving it as should be the case.  Here's a summary of what I've discovered on the subject, so that someone else who wants to append PDF files on a real computer won't have to go through what I went through.  This page covers only software that will run under Linux and similar FLOSS environments. (9 January 2007)

Postscript and PDF tricks for free software users

My PDF concatenation page is quite popular, and I recently had occasion (while publishing a book through Lulu) to need a couple of other hard-to-find Postscript and PDF-related techniques, so I'm recording them here in case they're useful to others. (22 June 2006)