Latex

I use Mendeley for my reference and citation management. I use TexClipse for (most) of my $latex \LaTeX$ editing, ViM otherwise. I use Xelatex / pdflatex for project building. These don’t always work so well together. One issue I came across was that Mendeley can insert some weird Unicode whitespace characters that ‘disappear’ in TexClipse / Vim, but break xelatex/pdflatex. Easy solution: set the project encoding in TexClipse to ignore these characters upon pasting. ...

Problem: Had two citations with slightly different information appearing in library.bib, causing bibtex to shit itself, but only one citation appeared in the desktop / web interfaces Cause: ‘Deleted’ Library items still appear in library.bib, so old (custom) version of citation still persisted after being ‘removed’ Solution: Empty trash

Ubuntu doesn’t manage vim’s addons, so installing the vim-latexsuite package doesn’t actually put all the relevant hooks into your vim installation. To do that, (after installing the package) execute; sudo vim-addons -w install latex-suite