LaTeX

I currently read academic papers by downloading the PDF and printing; and the tiny collection of LaTeX documents I've authored are output as PDFs. It feels like I should embrace e-readers for academic reading and writing. I have a Kindle Keyboard which does handle PDFs but reading PDFs is not especially pleasant on the Kindle because of its small screen, relatively sluggish refresh rate and clunky note-taking feature.

set(gca, 'TickDir', 'out', 'XColor', [0.25 0.25 0.25], 'YColor', [0.25 0.25 0.25]);
set(gca, 'YLim', [0 200], 'YTick', [0 100 200], 'YTickLabel', []);
set(gcf,'units','centimeters');
pos = get(gcf, 'position');
set(gcf, 'position', [pos(1:2),5 ,5]); % make figure 5cm x 5cm
box off; % remove axes on right and top
matlabfrag('filename'); % export a .tex and a .eps file using matlabfrag

Export plots from MATLAB as EPS. \usepackage epstopdf in LaTeX.

MATLAB printing and exporting.

Using the same font in the figures and the LaTeX document

LaTeX documents, by default, use the Computer Modern font. It's often considered a good idea to use as few fonts as possible on a single page (otherwise it risks looking ugly). Hence it would be nice to use Computer Modern for figure text.  (This is achieved easily when using GNUplot to create figures using GNUplot's epslatex output terminal).

MATLAB simply cannot set the tick font to Computer Modern.  You can attempt to set the label font to computer modern using something like this:

set(0, 'defaultTextInterpreter', 'latex');
set(0, 'defaultTextFontName', 'cmr10');

But that also seems to result in the x-axis label being cropped off for small figures (say 5 x 5cm).  Tinkering with the label's y Position and the axes's y Position and height seems to be able to fix this problem but this seems like a lot of work, especially given that the output is always going to be unsatisfactory because the tick labels are a different font.

But the user-submitted script teximage.m may be a good bet (I haven't tried it) for rendering fonts using LaTeX and inserting the resulting bitmap into the EPS image.

Remarkably, MATLAB does not have in-built support for exporting figures as EPS files with placeholders plus a TEX file (hence allowing LaTeX to do the typesetting).  But there are some user-submitted scripts.  The most promising looks to be matlabfrag (I haven't tried it yet though).

Lyx is an open-source word processor built on top of LaTeX and Zotero is modern, open-source bibliography management package with "cloud" features. MetaUML is a system for creating UML diagrams in LaTeX (it's frankly pretty painful to use but it does produce professional looking results). This post is where I keep my notes about installing and configuring LaTeX, Lyx and Zotero on my Ubuntu system at Imperial (where I do not have root access).

Notes on using Doxygen

LaTeX output

First produce the latex header (source): doxygen -w latex latex/header.tex latex/doxygen.sty Doxyfile

Then make a simple latex/wrapper.tex file:

Notes on using GNUplot

Outputting from GNUplot to PDFLaTeX

In gnuplot:

Makefile

FILENAME = EEHadoopLitReview