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Printing Tips and Tricks
- Include EPS figures in LaTeX/TeX documents
- EPS is a graphics file format. It can be generated by many graphic tools. Once you have your graph in EPS format, this trick can help you include graphs in LaTeX/TeX documents.
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- Quick plot from x-y data file
- The graph program in the GNU Plotutils package is a quick and powerful tool to plot 2-D xy plots. Unlike many other graphic programs, it can plot to postscript file without X-Window system. Combined with the convert program in the ImageMagick package, you can even put the plots on the web in gif format.
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- Build personal home page on Physics Department Server
- If you have an account on Physics server, you can have a personal homepage at http://physics.nyu.edu/~yourusername
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- Dial NYU Internal Telephone Numbers
- It is a little bit tricky to dial NYU internal 5-digit telephone numbers if you call from outside NYU.
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- Print A4 documents on US printers
- Print A4 (210 x 297mm) size postscript files on Physics Department printers which can only handle US letter (8.5 x 11in) paper.
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- Print source codes with a2ps
- Souce codes of programs (and LaTeX, HTML documents) are usually very long and not easy to print. A2ps is a very nice tool for printing source codes. It can add file information (date, author, pages, line numbers) to the print-out and put several pages on one sheet.
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- Set default printer in your Unix/Linux account
- Usually, you can use many different printers on the network in Unix/Linux system. This trick is about how to set the default printer for you.
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- Print PDF files
- PDF (Portable Document Format) is an Internet standard for electronic distribution that faithfully preserves the look and feel of the original document complete with fonts, colors, images, and layout.
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- NYU Physics Department printers
- The names and locations of NYU Physics Department public network printers.
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- Set aliases for Unix/Linux commands
- Unix/Linux commands are very powerful when you have proper options. However, nobody can remember all the options and the notes on the yellow "post-it" are easy to lose. Setting aliases for your commands is the best solution.
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- Forward email to another account
- It is very common to have several email addresses. This trick helps you forward email to the account that you check frequently.
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- Change login shell from csh to bash or tcsh
- Usually, the default login shell on Unix system is csh. The trick helps you change it to smarter tcsh or bash.
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- Latin-1 Character codes
- Latin-1 character set has many commonly used European characters.
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- The 6ΧΆΧΆ Browser-safe Color Cube
- Color table for web pages.
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