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Blog: Hacks
This is a collection of tricks, scripts, one-liners, patches, hacks of all sort & anything related to computers and computing. Try at your own risks!
Emacs Proofing LaTeX
I often need to clean out the proofing notes one makes for editors and co-authors in $\mathrm{\LaTeX}$ prose:
Debugging sopi
sopi works great except when it doesn't, in which case he just vomits an error message like this:
Moving numbered files to add one entry
Say you have files like this:
lecture1.tex lecture2.tex lecture3.tex ... lecture13.tex lecture24.tex
and need to add a new lecture5!
doi2bib or parsing doi into bibTeX entries
bib2wiki or parsing bibTeX into mediawiki templates
In a previous post, I was discussing a prospective bib2wiki script to automatize the transcription of my bibTeX database to laussy.org (this website). This was over 10 years ago, so I forgot what I did back then. I had to do it again.
Overlapping subtitles in kdenlive
kdenlive uses a 25th of a second accuracy for the millisecond timestamp $t$, which thus becomes converted to the nearest integer $\lfloor{t/40}\rceil$ (there are forty fractions of 1/25s in a second). So if you have, say:
00:00:02,764 --> 00:00:03,705 So now...
Timestamps in srt files with Mathematica
This describes a hack to manually find the overlapping subtitles in a srt file (and do other more interesting things).
Extracting citation counts from a Google Scholar page
Say you want to extract the citation counts from someone's Google Scholar page (here from Jeremy Baumberg):
Merging Columbus CSV files
To merge various tracks from the Columbus P-10 device so as to assemble a global picture of your whereabouts, one can follow the steps below.