Ad Lagendijk
6 December 2009
Tags: MS Word, text formatting
Posted in Technical (ms word, tex), Tips
Depending on your discipline you write your scientific papers with either MS Word or you prepare them with a more professional text formatter like LaTeX.
Besides scientific papers scientist produce all kinds of other documents. I often notice that those MS-Word prepared documents have an ugly ragged right side, or have a repugnant flood of white space. With a little more effort it is possible to produce text, even with MS Word, with a professional look. Two aspects are important: hyphenation and justification.
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Ad Lagendijk
28 November 2009
Tags: bad contrast, Presentations, web development
Posted in Presentations quality, Technical (ms word, tex)
I discovered something a few days ago that made me ask the question: Am I mad, or are all web designers out of their minds? The sun was shining in my office and I just could not read the information on the web site of a major multinational company.
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Klaas Wynne
3 May 2009
Tags: arXiv, bibliography, Endnote, Google scholar, JSTOR, Mac, papers, PDF, PubMed, science, Scopus, web of science, Windows, Word
Posted in Presentations quality, Technical (ms word, tex), Tips, useful software
When you are doing research, you tend to collect a lot of papers. I remember that at the end of m PhD, when I moved to another continent to do a postdoc, I dumped a huge box of photocopies in my parents’ basement. A few years ago, I had collected two cupboards full of photocopies. It was getting seriously out of hand. Then, of course, journals started putting everything online as PDFs and the same process started all over again but this time filling up hard disk folders instead. I used to have subject-based folders, which sort of worked until something fit within 2 or 3 or 4 of my subjects. Searching for some old paper you had read a few years back became more and more nightmarish. Then somebody showed me Papers.
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