Include some Example Entries

[diego898]

Hello,

Would it be possible to include a fully functioning example entry?

[mikhailklassen]

Hi Diego,

Thanks for your interest. I will try to post an example entry in the near future. In the meantime, you can check out a related project that I'm collaborating on. WriteLaTeX.com recently adopted my research diary stylefiles and you can now create diary entries online without needing to install a TeX interpreter and related packages.

I wrote about how to do this on their blog:
https://www.writelatex.com/blog/14-writelatex-for-research

Thanks for your interest and please feel free to send me any questions or feedback.

Mikhail

[diego898]

hey I did come across that and it led me here. I wanted to try and get something started on my own machine and use github as well and had some trouble. Perhaps some example walkthrough of creating/populating/compliging your first entry would be very helpful!

Thanks!

[mikhailklassen]

Hi Diego,

I've added an example entry to the repository and made a few other small fixes. I had noticed some bugs that caused it to fail compilation. It should be fixed now.

I run my research diary from within a Linux operating system. I make use of a bunch of shell scripts. I haven't tested them on Mac, and they wouldn't work on a PC. What operating system are you using?

I hope that these changes make the project more useful/accessible to you.

Best,
Mikhail

[diego898]

Great! Ill pull and give it a try.

I actually use all three OS daily, though my main research computer is a windows PC. On it though, Im running cygwin+zsh.

[diego898]

Hm. Pulled a fresh copy down, and entered 2013/ and ran ./compile_today and received the following error:

$ ./compile_today                                                                          [13:39:35]
Compiling 2013-05-31.tex.
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.4-1.40.13 (MiKTeX 2.9 64-bit)
entering extended mode
C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\miktex\bin\x64\dvips.exe: DVI file can't be opened: 2013-05-31.dvi: No such file or     directory
Error: /undefinedfilename in (2013-05-31.ps)
Operand stack:

Execution stack:
   %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push
  --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push
Dictionary stack:
   --dict:1169/1684(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:77/200(L)--
Current allocation mode is local
Last OS error: No such file or directory
MiKTeX GPL Ghostscript 9.05: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1

[mikhailklassen]

I did some more testing and I found the problem.

LaTeX doesn't support PNG graphics, so I supply the sample logo as an EPS and a PNG file. If you are using the PNG version, you need to compile using pdflatex instead of latex. ./compile_today was using latex by default. You can either change \logoPNG to \logoEPS in the example file, or you can compile your diary entry with the command

pdflatex 2013-05-31.tex

which produces 2013-05-31.pdf.

Hope this helps. Maybe I can figure out a clever way of having the compile_today script determine automatically which compiler is needed.

[diego898]

Oh thats right! I forgot I read that in the I ran pdflatex as suggested but got this error.

$ pdflatex 2013-05-31.tex                                                                  [13:39:42]
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.4-1.40.13 (MiKTeX 2.9 64-bit)
entering extended mode
(C:\Users\diego\source\research-diary-project\2013\2013-05-31.tex
LaTeX2e <2011/06/27>
Babel <v3.8m> and hyphenation patterns for english, afrikaans, ancientgreek, ar
abic, armenian, assamese, basque, bengali, bokmal, bulgarian, catalan, coptic,
croatian, czech, danish, dutch, esperanto, estonian, farsi, finnish, french, ga
lician, german, german-x-2012-05-30, greek, gujarati, hindi, hungarian, iceland
ic, indonesian, interlingua, irish, italian, kannada, kurmanji, latin, latvian,
 lithuanian, malayalam, marathi, mongolian, mongolianlmc, monogreek, ngerman, n
german-x-2012-05-30, nynorsk, oriya, panjabi, pinyin, polish, portuguese, roman
ian, russian, sanskrit, serbian, slovak, slovenian, spanish, swedish, swissgerm
an, tamil, telugu, turkish, turkmen, ukenglish, ukrainian, uppersorbian, usengl
ishmax, welsh, loaded.
("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\base\article.cls"
Document Class: article 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\base\size11.clo"))
(C:\Users\diego\source\research-diary-project\2013\research_diary.sty

! LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}.

See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
 ...

l.1 !
     <symlink> ■. . / s r c / r e s e a r c h _ d i a r y . s t y
? q
OK, entering \batchmode

[mikhailklassen]

Hmm, looks like it may be a little unhappy with the symlinked style file. Try copying research_diary.sty from the src directory into the 2013 directory and see if it will compile then. I don't have much experience working with LaTeX within Cygwin.

Best,
Mikhail

[diego898]

Hey! I went and updated research_diary.sty with relative paths to the images dir, and updated add_entry so it doesnt actually copy those files over. The problem could also be solved by windows hard links: mklink /H ../src/research_diary.sty research_diary.sty

So everything seems to be working great! Want to try running/updating compile_anthology to make a large PDF of all of the entries so I can run it weekly to have a weekly log of all PDFs. Thanks for the help!

[mikhailklassen]

Oh that's great. Thanks!

Perhaps I'll include add your notes to the readme in future, or make some
adjustments so that it works better in a windows environment.

Best,
Mikhail

Mikhail Klassen
PhD Candidate, Astrophysics
Dept. of Physics & Astronomy
McMaster University
[email protected]



On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 12:08 AM, Diego Mesa <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hey! I went and updated research_diary.sty with relative paths to the
> images dir, and updated add_entry so it doesnt actually copy those files
> over. The problem could also be solved by windows hard links: mklink /H
> ../src/research_diary.sty research_diary.sty
>
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