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Mass renaming papers with BibTex+JabRef export filters

28 June, 2010 in category LaTeX, english, mathematics by Konrad.

I wrote a JabRef export filter that takes a BibTex file with file links and writes a linux shell script to rename the files systematically according to the scheme [bibtexkey] – [authors] – [title].[extension].

A survey of GNU/Linux shortcomings

14 February, 2010 in category android OS, computers, english, web by Konrad.

Sadly, Ubuntu is not perfect. A wish-list of future Ubuntu features/applications. Some are available on Windows or Mac OS X, most aren’t.

the smell file format

26 January, 2010 in category english, life by Konrad.

When I woke up from a dream, I instantly had this idea: What would a file format for odours look like? On searching “smell file format”, the results are really absurd, too.

Managing the paper’s metadata

25 January, 2010 in category LaTeX, computers, english, web by Konrad.

Annotations and other metadata issues with PDFs, PostScript documents, DjVu files, XMP metadata, various extraction tools and ways to manipulate document metadata. The focus lies on Linux but something works with Windows and Mac OS X, too.