After rendering one of my old laptops into OS-less state by restoring the Arch Linux OS from another System without exclude the boot, following is what I did to recover the dual-boot system. I have to fix the MBR and Boot for windows first and then reinstall the grub ...
Continue Reading →This laptop doesn’t have any CD/DVD drive so the first thing is to make a bootable USB drive.
Boot into Windows 10. In Windows, download archlinux iso from the following website
https://www.archlinux.org/download/
Use the mirror which is closest to you and download the Arch iso. archlinux-2015.12.01-dual.iso
Download Rufus from the following location https://rufus.akeo.ie/
Plugin any ...
dictd installation Follow instruction here.
Inspired from here.
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I have been using the builtin Mode for a few months until I found out that Auctex is the ultimate Editor for Latex. I do not even know why people will use other Editor such as Lyx.
Emacs provides special major modes for editing files written in TeX and its related formats. TeX mode ...
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It turned to be not so trivial to setup Chinese for Latex in a Linux System. Hope this will help some souls.
Install Tex Live manually with tlmgr functioning.
Step-by-step installation instruction for Arch Linux is here.
Set variable for Tex Live installation directory,
Download the Linux version of gdrive from GitHub.
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Mendeley => Helm-bibtex => Org-ref
Pdf-tools and org-noter are used for note-taking.
Reference Manager Mendeley is used to:
to rename files
generate bibtex file
PDF-tools to render and annotate pdf, and generate notes in individual org files. see here for more info.
Org-ref to take care of the citation duty.
Notes: org-ref ...
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R Markdown documents are fully reproducible. Use a productive notebook interface to weave together narrative text and code to produce elegantly formatted output. Use multiple languages including R, Python, and SQL. – rmarkdown official site
R Markdown supports dozens of static and dynamic output formats including HTML, PDF, MS Word, Beamer, HTML5 slides, Tufte-style handouts, books, dashboards, shiny applications, scientific articles, websites, and more. – rmarkdown official ...