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Well it is done… Only awaiting minor changes to the text, the thesis is done. I just got my first signature… My defense was accepted earlier today, and the other signatures will be collect tomorrow. *exhale

Latex + Eclispe = Texlipse

I’ve posted before about editing LaTeX files, but here is a nice tool I just noticed today. I’ve been using Texlipse on a daily basis to write my thesis. Texlipse is a feature/plugin for Eclipse that allows for editing and quick compiling of LaTeX files in Eclipse, (also with the use of PDFPerspective from JPedal, view compiled PDF files). Anyways, today I was trying to enter data in a table, this is not a difficult task, but in LaTeX, it tends to be tedious. Today however, I remembered a view I had noticed when I first started using Texlipse, the “LaTeX Table View”. This view allows for the easy inputing of data and then creation of a table within LaTeX. The only missing item is border formatting, so you have to manually define the justification (left, right, center) and border lines in the actual LaTeX file. Oh well, but life is easier for now with this tool.

Update based on fussel73’s comment.
I guess I should have not eluded to that idea that I’ve integrated JPedal’s PDFViewer with TeXlipse, what I do is use the JPedal PDFViewer perspective as my base perspective and then open all my LaTeX files within that perspective. All this allows is that every time I open a PDF product from pdflatex, I don’t have to switch my perspective. I’ve actually posted the suggestion to the TeXlipse developers of trying to integrate the PDFViewer as part of the viewing options with in TeXlipse, but overall it really is not that big of an deal. The only issue with my approach is that I have to close the opened PDF file before recompiling my document or the new resulting new PDF will not be available until I do so. fussel73, I hope that clears things up a bit. If you find a way of better integrating the two, please post and share.

Working on the road: SiEd for Palm OS

While sitting at the Firestone this morning (link) I had a good chance to try out an app I had just installed on my Palm Treo600. Actually last night I first tried it out with use of my external keyboard, but this morning was the great test…. I’m currently in the process of trying to complete my Master’s Thesis and this requires sitting at a computer and typing. I’m writing my thesis using LaTeX. While I have yet to find a good LaTeX editor for the Palm, I did run across SiEd. I’ve tried others including tjepWriter and SrcEdit, but while both have their merits… SiEd’s ability to work with any text file found on a memory card is the clincher for me. I was ably to keep working on my thesis while sitting at firestone with out losing time. With this ability to work on the road…. hopefully I will finish sooner than later.

PS: in the near future I plan to finally put together a “whats on my Treo 600″ post that and give a more detailed review of the above mentioned text editors.