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Akademische Lebensläufe mit Latex und dem moderncv package

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Alle Jahre wieder braucht man einen aktuellen Lebenslauf. Wenn man in der Wissenschaft arbeitet, besteht dieser zu 80% aus einer aktuellen Publikationsliste. Nach langem Ausprobieren und Vergleichen (Alternativen aus der großen Liste sind z.B.: currvita und europecv) habe ich mich dafür entschieden, meinen CV mit dem moderncv package, dass von Xavier Danaux entwickelt wurde, zu machen. Ich habe allerdings noch eine Anpassungen am outputstyle “plainyr” vorgenommen, um in der Literaturliste jeweils aktuelle Artikel zuerst zu nennen.

Das fertige Resultat findet Ihr hier: cv_hirschfeld_2012_03

Die Sources zum anpassen findet Ihr hier: latex_cv

Um das zu setzten müsst ihr die folgenden Schritte durchführen

  1.  pdflatex auf die tex-Datei anwenden: pdflatex source.tex
  2. bibtex auf die  *.aux Files der einzelnen Bibliographien anwenden: bibtex paper.aux
  3. pdflatex auf die tex-Datei anwenden: pdflatex source.tex

 

 

Mendeley – powerful reference manager

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Mendeley is a powerful free alternative to commercial reference managing software. With Mendeley you can not only collect your references within one software, it allows also a PDF-Preview, tagging, different cititation styles, provides an Open Office / MS Word plugin and so on. You will find a complett list of features under http://www.mendeley.com/#features

Furthermore, Mendeley is not only a free reference manager – it is as well an academic social network. You can create groups and share with them your library and, if you want, PDFs as well. This is really great if you work on a paper together with some colleagues or if you want to provide a library for a student. Thus Mendeley is not only installed on your computer – you have an online login and online access on your library as well.

Pro:

  • Mendeley is really easy to use! :-)
  • Mendeley is a powerfull reference manager with an broad amount of functions for free
  • great automatic detection of imported PDFs: You need just to put a PDF into a “watched folder” and Mendeley will complet reference data by extracting them from the PDF and gathering them online
  • very good PDF view
  • your library is available online as well as on your computer
  • if you want you can create public libraries and share your research with other people

Con:

  • Personal and shared web space is limited to 500 MB – for more you have to pay (but for my personal use 500 MB seems to be enough so far).
  • You can share in the free version with only ten people
  • It is free, but seems to be not really open source
  • We experienced some problems with the function to highlight text or make notes in PDFs directly in an earlier version of Mendeley. Once after a major crash all notes were gone. :-( We hope this bug is fixed.

JabRef

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JabRef-Uebersicht

JabRef is a literature administration. Features are the administration of literature and the supply of this information in an BibTex-file for LaTeX user. But Jabref can also be quite valuable without LaTeX, at least if you want to administer your literature independent of the platform and the prducer

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Typsetting beautiful documents – LaTeX

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Similarly to R, and html, LaTeX is more of a programming language than a specific software. To be precise, LaTeX is itself an add-on package that enhances the fundamental TeX-language. The most widely used packages include hyperref, that adds the ability to add hyperlinks in the document, and BibTeX, that is used to generate bibliographies.

LaTeX is a high-quality typesetting system; it includes features designed for the production of technical and scientific documentation. (LaTeX-Project)

In practice, users download and install a graphical user interface (GUI) that supports editing the source files and enables one-click conversion of the file to a pdf. This is different to the WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) approach that misleads users into believing that they have to do all the typsetting themselfes. The  alternative paradigm of text editing is WYSIWYM (what you see is what you mean). The advantage of this is the separation of content (what researchers are good for) and presentation (what others or computers are better at).

The most widely used GUIs are:

The files these generate are 100% compatible between these GUIs.

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