A Light Colour Theme for Beamer Poster

(Yes it’s been a while. I’ve started working and adapting to the new pace!)

So quite a (long) while ago, I posted my sample beamer poster, while preparing for a conference poster. Now I’ve got another poster to present, and the previous colour schemes just did not go well with the logos. Hence I started tinkering around with the colours, and finally settled on this light, subtle palette:


Color by COLOURlovers.

The sample poster looks like these (shown together with the existing two other colour themes):

And here’s a thumbnail of the actual poster:

Source code of the sample files (including Beamer themes and colours) can be downloaded here.

Drawing Periodic Table with Tikz

I got this link from WriteLaTeX FB this morning..

Nice ha?

WriteLaTeX - cloud based LaTeX compiler/editor

I found out this online service. Anyone is currently using it? Please drop your comment here.

I currently still prefers github for LaTeX collaboration - or mercurial, subversion. 

But somehow you may have specific reason for using any cloud based LaTeX editor/collaboration service.

Extracting Only Cited Bibliography Entries

Occasionally, while exchanging files with collaborators or submitting articles, I’d like to extract a smaller .bib file from my main, “hold-all” bibliography file, i.e. containing only the entries that I’d actually cited in my document.

Fortunately this can be done fairly automatically using the bibexport tool. Quick rundown:

1. Compile your document, say myarticle.tex the usual way, with your “big” allrefs.bib file.
2. Run bibexport with the following:
   

   bibexport -o extracted.bib myarticle

   extracted.bib should now contain only the bibliography entries that were cited in myarticle.tex.
3. Change \bibliography{allrefs.bib} to \bibliography{extracted.bib} in myarticle.tex.
4. Send myarticle.tex and extracted.bib to collaborator or editor!