Alan Munn

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Linguist and some-time package/software writer.

My one-page dictatorial guide to LaTeX packages

Package author of:

msu-thesis class (for Michigan State University theses and dissertations.)
he-she (alternating masculine and feminine pronouns for gender neutral writing.)
pst-vowel (diphthong arrows for vowel.sty vowel charts)
msuletterhead (letterhead package for Michigan State University (internal use))

Software author of: (Mac OS X)

csv2latex (Ruby/Applescript combination for pasting spreadsheet cells into LaTeX source); included as part of TeXShop; usable with any Mac text editor.
make-local-texmf App to create a new user texmf folder.

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3h	comment	LaTeX cannot find my personal packages I keep all the packages that I write in a separate directory and then add symbolic links to them in my `~/Library/texmf`
3h	comment	Sweave outputs gibberish Try saving your file as UTF-8 and using `\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}`.
21h	revised	create OML font encoding from a commercial font minor English fixup
1d	awarded	Nice Answer
1d	awarded	Good Answer
1d	awarded	Enlightened
1d	awarded	Nice Answer
Jun 15	comment	Footnotes for a right-to-left phrase within a left-to-right paragraph It's not clear this is really a TeX question, but surely the footnote should go in the same relative position as you read the text (i.e. at the end of the word reading from right to left.)
Jun 13	awarded	Announcer
Jun 13	comment	Drawing a tree with bottom-aligned leaves A related question: How to draw syntactical trees with parallel leafs for a natural language? Will this question solve your problem?
Jun 12	comment	Extra comma at the end of a reference As I said, you should construct a small document that shows the problem and edit your question to add that. And instead of posting an image of your `.bib` items, you should paste the actual entries (formatted as code (click on the {} icon to format code in your question)).
Jun 12	comment	Extra comma at the end of a reference Without showing the code that you used to produce the output it's impossible to help. What are you using to format the references? `natbib`? `biblatex`? You need to make a minimal document that shows the problem. It should have only the package(s) you are using to format the bibliography, and any other bibliography related code and nothing else.
Jun 11	comment	How to convert office documents (odt, doc, rtf) to clean LaTeX? I've had very good success with `rtf2latex2e` which has various options for the amount of stuff in the RTF it will bother to convert. You can set it to produce a very minimally marked up document.
Jun 11	awarded	Enlightened
Jun 10	awarded	Nice Answer
Jun 10	comment	section numbering wrong You have a misplaced label. See Understanding how references and labels work
Jun 10	comment	What exactly is SyncTeX? @karlkoeller Thanks for your comment, I've updated the answer.
Jun 10	revised	What exactly is SyncTeX? added 245 characters in body
Jun 10	answered	What exactly is SyncTeX?
Jun 10	revised	How do I add a .sty file to my MacTeX/TeXShop installation? added reference to Mtn Lion