I have recently been busy helping my elder sister with her literature review. I can not help her much in collecting matter etc. since I know nothing about her subject (biotechnology), but I have been doing the formatting of her review using LaTeX. A lot of her citations are from …

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Apparently, there's a new document format in the air. It's called "xps". Frankly, I did not know about this one. Someone I know unknowingly managed to use it for their travel tickets and I had to do the looking up to somehow print these documents. OpenOffice does not support the …

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1. vim spell check support : http://tips.webdesign10.com/vim/how-use-vims-spellchecker
2. LanguageTool : not yet packaged for Fedora. Needed for the vim LanguageTool script plugin.
3. vim-latex along with the texlive packages.
4. DeTeX : Not yet packaged for Fedora.
5. evince-dvi : evince backend to view DVI files
6. wc : for word counts and such
7. wordnet : A …

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