Setting up unicode math and orgmode for painless Anki deck building Background A recent Hacker News post reminded me of Anki, and that brought back memories of my Anki orgmode setup. I thought I’d re-create and immortalize it. The standard way of working with Anki, is with a pretty awkward GUI. There are changes to be made here, which make life a little easier, including the setup of custom cards, but the inherent concerns of the WYSIWYG editor are basically insurmountable.| rgoswami.me
A post on working with transient TeX templates in orgmode without modifying global configurations. This will also serve as a rudimentary introduction to TeX in orgmode. Background The sad reality of working in a field dominated by institutional actors which do not care for recognizing software development as a skill is that there are often a lot of ugly LaTeX templates1. In particular, often Universities have arbitrary LaTeX templates from the the dark days of 2010 something, which include gr...| rgoswami.me
Background One of the main reasons to use orgmode is definitely to get a better note taking workflow. Closely related to blogging or writing, the ideal note workflow is one which lets you keep a bunch of throwaway ideas and also somehow have access to them in a coherent manner. This will be a long post, and it is a work-in-progress, so, keep that in mind. Since this is mainly me1 work-shopping my technique, the philosophy will come in a later post probably.| rgoswami.me
Background I have been wanting to find a workflow which allows me to bypass writing a lot of TeX by hand for a while now. To that end I looked into using a computer algebra system (CAS). Naturally, my first choice was the FOSS Maxima (also because it uses Lisp under the hood). However, for all the reasons listed here, relating to its accuracy, which have not been fixed even though the post was over 5 years ago, I ended up having to go with the closed source Mathematica.| rgoswami.me