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LED LaTeX Editor and Mendeley Desktop Why should they be a part of Graduate Student’s arsenal? Presented By: Syed Faraz Ahmed Research Assistant EE Dept. KFUPM. Because Graduate Students… Need organization and management of research papers … - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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LED LaTeX Editor and Mendeley Desktop
Why should they be a part of Graduate Student’s arsenal?
Presented By:
Syed Faraz AhmedResearch Assistant
EE Dept. KFUPM
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Because Graduate Students…
Need organization and management of research papers …
Need user-friendly editing tool for writing and editing Thesis, Papers etc..?
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Organization of the Presentation
PART: I
LEd a user friendly LaTeX Editor
PART: II
Mendeley Software for managing and collaborating research papers etc.
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What is LEd ?
“LaTeX Editor” - an environment for rapid TeX and LaTeX document development
LEd offers:
- a project manager - powerful editor
- integrated spellchecker and thesaurus - build-in DVI viewer
- descriptive hints for LaTeX commands - code complete mechanism
- word wrapping - code folding
- Basic package only 6 MB of disk space !
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LEd Project management
TeX/LaTeX sources
Bibliographical data in BibTeX format
Document class and package sources
METAFONT font sources
Tables of contents, lists of figures, and tables
EPS files
Other types.
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LEd integrates a project manager, editor, viewer, and more
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More than 2200 buttons for LaTeX symbols
For each button representing a symbol a hint is provided describing the command syntax and, if necessary, which external package should be used
In the editor window, hints for symbols contain also a bitmap showing the symbol
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Descriptive hints
Highlights the contents of the file to ease editing process
This reduces the help usage
Hints provided for: syntax of the command
short description
description of the command parameters
example of usage
remarks (if something special can be said about the command)
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Built-in DVI viewer
TeX/LaTeX compilers output DVI files viewed with a built-in DVI viewer of LEd !
Unlike Word etc.LaTeX is not WYSWYG
Multiple Projects / Files View
Print quality preview
Different zoom levels
Support for EPS files
Message Window
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Built-in DVI viewerA two-way navigation (you can double click on the previewed page to move to the related place in the source text and also double click in the contents window to show the related page in the viewer).
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Other Useful Features
Code folding
Parts of the source text can be collapsed to one line
Parenthesis Coloring
Parentheses are colored depending on the nesting level
Matched parentheses are highlighted
Code completion
Supports completion for LaTeX commands
Suggested commands hints are also available
Labels and bibliographical entries defined in the document are also supported
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Lastly…
Multi-lingual Dictionary and Thesaurus
Can be used with any TeX distribution(full functionality is available with a distribution based on TeXLive or MiKTeX)
Built-in Spellchecker
Not only LaTeX / TeX
Free to download and use !!
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Acknowledgement:
LEd Help Guide
www.latexeditor.org/
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www.mendeley.com
Syed Faraz AhmedElectrical Engineering DepartmentK.F.U.P.M.
10th May 2011
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Mendeley is for● Researchers
● Scholars and educators
● Graduate and undergraduate students
● Information management professionals
● Librarians
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What is Mendeley? Creating your library Managing your documents & references
Inserting citations & generating bibliographies
Sharing references using groups
Agenda
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What is Mendeley?
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What is Mendeley?
Mendeley is free academic software (Win, Mac & Linux) to manage, share, read, annotate and cite your research papers...
...and a research network to manage your papers online, discover research trends and statistics, and to connect to like-minded researchers.
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Creating your library
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What is Mendeley?
Set up and manage your reference groups
Add tags & notes and edit document details
Library showing all your documents (citation or table view)
Filter your papers by authors, keywords, tags, or publications
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Adding your papers
You have different options to set up your library:
• Add single files or an entire folder • “Watch a folder” to automatically import PDF
files• Drag and drop PDFs into Mendeley Desktop
… and Mendeley will try to extract the document details automatically
You can also:• Add existing EndNote/BibTeX/RIS databases• Sync with other reference management
webapps• Use Mendeley Web Importer to add from
online databases• Add from the Mendeley Research Catalog
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Document details lookup
Enter the DOI, PubMed, or ArXiv ID and click on the magnifier glass to start lookup
Missing info is added automatically
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Web Importer
To install the Web Importer, drag & drop the bookmarklet to your Favorites/Bookmarksin your internet browser
Supported sites
www.mendeley.com/import
The Web Importer helps you grab citations off the web
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Using the Web Importer
On the web page with the reference(s) you want to capture: click on the bookmarklet…
…then click on “Import” to import the reference/paper to your Mendeley library. If possible/available, also the associated PDF will be imported.
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Synchronize and manage your library online
You can also add references and edit & manage your library online
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Managing your documents & references
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Manage your library
Star your favorite papers
Documents can be marked read/unread
Filter by authors, tags, publications or keywords
Open attached PDF files in integrated viewer
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Search as you type
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Full text search in Mendeley’s PDF viewer
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Annotate and highlight
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Mendeley‘s File Organizer
You can find the File Organizer inTools > Options > File Organizer
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Citing and sharing references
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Citing in Word & Open Office
Click on “Insert Citation” in Word
Highlight the paper(s) you want to cite
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Citing in Word & Open Office
Citation will show up based on selected style
Cite into Google documents
or other editors by copy & paste
Generate a bibliography in one click!
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Share references with Mendeley GroupsGroups can be private or public (invite only or open)
View the group online – other users can request to join or simply follow the activity of the group
Public groups only have the reference details – no full text. Private groups contain the full text including notes & annotations.
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Create Groups in Mendeley Desktop
Private groups contain the full text.
Public groups share references only.
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Create Groups in Mendeley Desktop
You can also create groups online.
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Create your professional research profile
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Search the Mendeley Research Catalog
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Get readership information on papers
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Leave feedback and see what’s coming nextVisit
http://feedback.mendeley.comto see what others are saying, leave feedback, request features or report bugs.
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Using Mendeley
Scenario 1:
Use Mendeley as your free and flexible literature management software
Scenario 2:
Create public reading lists & collaborate with colleagues
Scenario 3:
Create a public research profile and discover research statistics in your field
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Why choose Mendeley? • It is free - basic version
• Mendeley is a good bibliographic database, provides a desktop version for your PC / Laptop and a web version
• Mendeley synchronises desktop and web versions. Access your databases away from your own computer, over the Web
• Mendeley is good with pdfs, automatically extracting bibliographic information from pdfs on import
• Mendeley can import existing databases from EndNote, CiteULike, 2collab and Zotero, or any database in RIS format
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Why choose Mendeley?
• Mendeley provides a plugin to integrate with Microsoft Word and Open Office
• Mendeley provides the facility for you to collaborate over the web to create group bibliographies
• Mendeley provides a space for you to create an online profile to share research interests and network
• Mendeley has a database of 73M+ references you can search and suggests related references for your search results
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Mendeley’s 10 Largest Userbases
Stanford University MIT Harvard UniversityUniversity of Cambridge University of MichiganRWTH Aachen Cornel l University University of EdinburghImperial College London University College London
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Join the KFUPM Electrical Engineering Group at Mendeley:
http://www.mendeley.com/groups/1088821/kfupm-electrical-engineering/
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Acknowledgement:
“Getting Started with Mendeley”
www.mendeley.com/
Presentation Adapted from Mendeley web-resource
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Thank You !