command-Q

January 31st, 2010

command-QTomorrow, I will start to write down the thesis.

New BCTP page online!

January 25th, 2010

The second version of the BCTP web page is online. It looks 1000 X better than the first version.

Free FreeHand organization

December 30th, 2009

Help them (freefreehand.org)!

Using latexmk with gvim + xdvi

December 22nd, 2009

To use latexmk with gvim + xdvi, I have the following lines in my .Xdefaults file:

xdvi.editor: gvim --servername xdvi --remote +%l %f
xdvi.watchFile: 1

One has to issue

xrdb -merge .Xdefaults

after changing the .Xdefaults file. The second line lets xdvi check every one second whether the dvi file has been updated and reloads it. Probably it’s not necessary because latexmk is updating the viewer anyway, but why not? Now, one only needs

latexmk -pvc -dvi latex-file.tex

Every time the tex file gets saved, latexmk will latex the file and update the viewer. Used with the forward and inverse search, you can save hours. Great!

Update on the usage of gvim + xdvi

December 21st, 2009

This is an update to the entry about gvim + xdvi. I found out why the forward search did not work: It was as always a trivial reason… I forgot to set the viewer for dvi to xdvi. So, the following lines in .vimrc will enable forward and inverse search with gvim and xdvi

let g:Tex_CompileRule_dvi = 'latex --interaction=nonstopmode --src-specials $*'
let g:Tex_ViewRule_dvi = 'xdvi'
let g:Tex_ViewRuleComplete_dvi = 'xdvi -editor "gvim --servername xdvi --remote +\%l \%f" $* &'

(I forgot the second line last time)

You have to launch gvim and xdvi using

gvim --servername xdvi file.tex
xdvi -editor "gvim --servername xdvi --remote +%l %f" file.dvi

These days, I’m using latexmk and it’s great! Next time, I’ll write down how to use it with gvim and xdvi.

Florian Schroeder live in Pantheon

December 3rd, 2009

Gestern habe ich den Live-Auftritt von Florian Schroeder in Pantheon gesehen! Sehr gut! Ich kannte einige Nummern schon, z.B. Schäuble über Demokratie und ihre Gesetze und Merkels Rede im Jahre 2058 oder 2085, aber Vieles war neu. Zumindest für mich. Wenn jemand die Chance hat, ihn live zu erleben, sollte es unbedingt tun! Ach ja, übrigens ist er nur ein Jahr älter als ich… :(

Postdoc application

November 21st, 2009

I’m applying this year, i.e. I am planning to finish my PhD next autumn. Few days ago I sent the hard copy applications and now I’ve almost finished the online applications. Phew… :(

SUSY 10 page

November 4th, 2009

SUSY 10 page is online: http://susy10.uni-bonn.de

This page is very important since I have created it! It’s not yet finished and many things are to be done…

susy10web

Phishing…

October 16th, 2009

From T., R…. What should I do? I think I have to send him my data…

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Back from Korea, but…

August 29th, 2009

Back from Korea on Tuesday! But going to a school about BPS states in Hamburg tomorrow…