Various Tricks

A nice and simple way to ensure that your website updates are twitted can be found here.
A very useful script for converting tex pictures to gif and png files - textogif. It could be used to convert latex formulas to pictures, thus ensuring perfect quality equations in your website.
An useful tool for graphic conversion - sam2p. I use it to convert png files to eps, but many other formats are supported.
To organize your references in word alphabeticaly, just convert them to table, order table alphabetically and covert it back to text. Works wonders.
To get printing under Vim with the help of gtlp via the localhost use the following function: :set printexpr=PrintFile(v:fname_in)

:function PrintFile(fname)

: call system("ghostview " . a:fname)

: call delete(a:fname)

: return v:shell_error

:endfunc

To batch process *.pdf files to *.ps and the other way around:

#!/usr/bin/perl

#MyPS2PDF.plx

#takes <STDIN> which consists of a list filenames and

#uses ps2pdf to convert to pdf files

#Norman A. Cohen, MD

#29 November 2003

use warnings;

use strict;

use File::Basename;

foreach my $arg (@ARGV) {

my ($base, $path, $type)=fileparse($arg,qr{\.\w+});

my $newext="\.ps";

my $newname=$path.$base.$newext;

# make sure file extension is .prn

# (assumes that this will assure correct filetype)

if ($type =~ /\.pdf/) {

print "Converting $arg into ps file $newname.\n";

my $command = "pdf2ps $arg $newname";

system $command;

}

else

{

print "$arg is not a Windows .prn file. Skipping file!\n";

}

The other way around #!/usr/bin/perl