! Latex

Latex guide and scripts

.gitignore

# latex ignored files

*.aux
*.glo
*.idx
*.log
*.toc
*.ist
*.acn
*.acr
*.alg
*.bbl
*.blg
*.dvi
*.glg
*.gls
*.ilg
*.ind
*.lof
*.lot
*.maf
*.mtc
*.mtc1
*.out
*.synctex.gz

bibtexconverter.py

# Parse BibTex entries from input file and render them in IEEEtran.cls format
# http://www.michaelshell.org/tex/ieeetran/
# Usage: python bibtexconverter.py [bibtex file]
#
# BibTex example (input):
# @article{lecun2015deep,
#   title={Deep learning},
#   author={LeCun, Yann and Bengio, Yoshua and Hinton, Geoffrey},
#   journal={Nature},
#   volume={521},
#   number={7553},
#   pages={436--444},
#   year={2015},
#   publisher={Nature Publishing Group}
# }
#
# IEEETran example (output):
# \bibitem{lecun2015deep} Y.~LeCun and Y.~Bengio and G.~Hinton, \emph{Deep learning}.\hskip 1em plus 0.5em minus 0.4em\relax Nature, Nature Publishing Group, 2015.


import re
import sys
from pprint import pprint


def ieee(refs):
    print '\n'
    for ref in refs:
        print _ieee(ref) + '\n'


def _ieee(dic):
    return """\\bibitem{{{}}} {}, \\emph{{{}}}.\\hskip 1em plus 0.5em minus 0.4em\\relax {}, {}.""".format(
        dic['refcode'],
        _ieee_author(dic['author']),
        dic['title'],
        _ieee_publisher(dic),
        dic['year']
    )


def _ieee_publisher(dic):
    publisher = []
    keys = ['journal', 'booktitle', 'publisher', 'organization']
    for key in keys:
        if key in dic:
            publisher.append(dic[key])
    return ', '.join(publisher)


def _ieee_author(text):
    formatted = []
    authors = text.split(' and ')
    for a in authors:
        names = a.split(', ')
        if len(names) >= 2:
            last, first = names[0], names[1]
            formatted.append(first[0].upper() + '.~' + last)
        else:
            formatted.append(names[0])
    return ' and '.join(formatted)


if __name__ == '__main__':
    if len(sys.argv) < 2:
        print 'Usage: python bibtexconverter.py [bibtex file]'
        exit()

    filename = sys.argv[1]

    # collect BibTex entries from input file
    # separated by blank line
    entries = []
    with open(filename) as f:
        entry = []
        for line in f:
            line = line.strip()
            if len(line) > 0:
                # save line
                entry.append(line)
            elif len(entry) > 0:
                # blank line
                entries.append(entry)
                entry = []
        # last entry
        if len(entry) > 0:
            entries.append(entry)

    # parse BibTex entries
    references = []
    for entry in entries:
        dic = {}
        dic['refcode'] = re.search(r'@(article|inproceedings|thesis){([\w\d]*),', entry[0], re.M | re.I).group(2)
        for i in range(1, (len(entry) - 1)):
            key, value = entry[i].split('=')
            value = re.search(r'{([^{}]*)}', value, re.M | re.I).group(1)
            dic[key] = value
        references.append(dic)

    # render entries in IEEEtran.cls format
    # http://www.michaelshell.org/tex/ieeetran/
    ieee(references)

docx.sh

#!/bin/bash
# Converting latex to docx
# sudo apt install pandoc pandoc-citeproc

echo "converting to docx.."
pandoc -f latex -t docx -o $2 --bibliography ../references.bib $1

ieeetran-texstudio-ubuntu

# Compiling IEEETran template in Debian/Ubuntu using TexStudio

# Install TexStudio and mandatory packages
sudo apt install texstudio texlive-fonts-recommended texlive-publishers

latex-clean.sh

# Copied from https://gist.github.com/dougalsutherland/266983/9c88f1ca1cf1420af03166dcfccb9cb10a21c110
#!/bin/bash

exts=".aux .lof .log .lot .fls .out .toc .dvi .bbl .bcf .blg -blx.aux -blx.bib -blx.bib .run.xml .fdb_latexmk .synctex.gz .syntex.gz(busy) .pdfsync .algorithms .alg .loa .thm .nav .snm .vrb .acn .acr .glg .glo .gls .brf .lol .idx .ilg .ind .ist .maf .mtc .mtc0 .pyg .nlo .tdo .xdy .keys"

for x in "${@:-.}"; do
    arg=$(echo ${x:-.} | perl -pe 's/\.(tex|pdf)$//')

    if [[ -d "$arg" ]]; then
        for ext in $exts; do
             rm -f "$arg"/*$ext
        done
    else
        for ext in $exts; do
             rm -f "$arg"$ext
        done
    fi
done

rm -rf $(biber --cache)  # gross biber bug