Archive for July, 2011
Identi.ca Weekly Updates for 2011-07-13
- Hah. @OpenStreetMap shows South Sudan before @GoogleMaps does. (via @bill_nottingham) #
Identi.ca Weekly Updates for 2011-07-06
- #bibtex and @papersapp: I got you to use links in #pdf for webpages and dois, together with author-year style! Yay! http://bit.ly/mJ3kMH #
- Tag der #Wissenschaft an der #Uni #Stuttgart heute pm. Foyer Pfaffenwaldring 7: Live experiment: So fließt der Fluß! http://bit.ly/iA1HPW #
- Open house at University of Stuttgart this sat/pm. Come and watch rain radar, how rivers form, and how dams break! http://bit.ly/iA1HPW #
BibTex styles and papers
I’m currently writing a fairly important document, hence I want to make sure that the references work well and look well. I’m using papers in conjunction with TextMate. Here are the requisites I have for my reference system:
1. it should be author, year style. \citep{…} and \citet{…} should work
2. electronic sources should work properly. I don’t have many, but the few should be correct. I want for an electronic source to be included the link and the rough date when I last accessed it (month, year)
3. journal articles that are new enough such that they include an doi, the doi should show up and be a link such that the reader can easily access the reference.
I was a little surprised that papers exports any website as “@webpage”. Previously I had done that using “@misc” with howpublished={“Electronic source”}. I wasn’t aware of the little script urlbst, that can deal with @webpage, and solves requisites 2 and 3. Unfortunately, I couldn’t get urlbst to work with my own style file, which I created about 6 years ago… jeez… I didn’t want to go through the hassle of creating one by myself. It was not overly easy to find a suitable style file, but I finally found one at Elsevier, which I adapted using urlbst. Nice. Now everything looks and behaves nicely. Cheers to that!
Here’s the final bst-file I ended up liking.
We had Fun at the University’s Open House
On Saturday, we displayed some experiments at the open house of the university. The kids that I’ve seen were all very enthusiastic about water. Building a dam is always more exciting than watching how a river flows. That’s how it goes. 😉
After too many dams were built, and no more river was to be seen, we started the syphon, to clean everything up. See video below.