Jim Bagrow bagrow

Associate Professor, Math & Stats, University of Vermont. Always trying to do awesome science stuff.

bagrow / Makefile

Created March 12, 2011 16:41

Compile and merge the latex cover letter, manuscript, and supporting info all at once

	ENGINE = latexmk -pdf -silent -view=none
	SOURCES = cover_letter paper paper_supp
	MERGEFILE = paper_wCoverLetterSupp_$(shell date "+%Y%m%d").pdf
	TEMPS = aux blg fdb_latexmk log out synctex.gz

	MERGECMD=
	ifneq ($(MERGEFILE),)
	MERGECMD=gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=$(MERGEFILE) $(SOURCES:=.pdf)
	endif

bagrow / check.py

Created February 14, 2011 08:46

example pause/unpause/quit python script

	#!/usr/bin/python

	import sys, os, time
	import tty
	from select import select

	class TerminalFile:
	"""Adapted from http://code.activestate.com/recipes/203830/"""
	def __init__(self,infile):
	if not infile.isatty():

bagrow / monex.py

Created February 14, 2011 05:32 — forked from yy/monex.py

MONiter & EXecute

	#!/usr/bin/env python
	# encoding: utf-8

	"""
	MONitor & EXecute
	Yong-Yeol Ahn (http://yongyeol.com/)

	This script monitors multiple files and executes the given command when
	any of those files is changed.

bagrow / vimtex_workflow.txt

Created February 10, 2011 10:04

Some details for my macvim/skim/latexmk workflow

	MacVim + latexmk + Skim workflow:

	MacVim http://code.google.com/p/macvim/
	Latexmk http://www.phys.psu.edu/~collins/software/latexmk-jcc/
	Skim.app http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/

	Open the texfile in macvim:
	$ mvim <file>.tex
	Watch tex file with latexmk (see also ~/.dotfiles/latexmkrc):
	$ latexmk -pdf -pvc <file>.tex

bagrow / colors

Created February 10, 2011 10:01

test colors in terminal.app

	#!/bin/bash
	echo -e "\033[0mCOLOR_NC (No color)"
	echo -e "\033[1;37mCOLOR_WHITE\t\033[0;30mCOLOR_BLACK"
	echo -e "\033[0;34mCOLOR_BLUE\t\033[1;34mCOLOR_LIGHT_BLUE"
	echo -e "\033[0;32mCOLOR_GREEN\t\033[1;32mCOLOR_LIGHT_GREEN"
	echo -e "\033[0;36mCOLOR_CYAN\t\033[1;36mCOLOR_LIGHT_CYAN"
	echo -e "\033[0;31mCOLOR_RED\t\033[1;31mCOLOR_LIGHT_RED"
	echo -e "\033[0;35mCOLOR_PURPLE\t\033[1;35mCOLOR_LIGHT_PURPLE"
	echo -e "\033[0;33mCOLOR_YELLOW\t\033[1;33mCOLOR_LIGHT_YELLOW"
	echo -e "\033[1;30mCOLOR_GRAY\t\033[0;37mCOLOR_LIGHT_GRAY"

bagrow / calc_diff.sh

Created February 1, 2011 00:50

Semi-automatic way to track changes in a latex file

	#!/usr/bin/env bash

	# these can also be commandline args...
	OLD_TEX=paper_orig.tex # previous draft, submission, etc.
	NEW_TEX=paper.tex # current working version

	if [[ "$1" = 'clean' ]]; then
	rm -f diff*
	else
	latexdiff $OLD_TEX $NEW_TEX > diff.tex

bagrow / jet_colors.gnu

Created February 1, 2011 00:12

Love or hate the matlab jet colormap? Want it in gnuplot? Here's how to do it!