Kieran Healy

A short discussion, aimed at graduate students, about why you should think carefully about your workflow applications, i.e., the software tools you use to write papers. It consists of some general principles to bear in mind together with a bunch of specific software recommendations. There is a sample github repository that contains the .org source file the PDF is created from.

I maintain a BibTeX file of (mostly) sociology books and articles containing references cited in my own work. Additions and corrections welcome. I also periodically update a BibTeX database of philosophy articles and books, mostly metaphysics and epistemology.

Every few months I get an email asking to see the LaTeX markup that I use to generate my Curriculum Vitae. So, here it is. Feel free to adapt it yourself. If you make stylistic modifications, I encourage you to fork the project on GitHub and make them available to others in the same way.

This is a fork of Eric Schulte’s Emacs Starter Kit (itself an offshoot of Phil Hagelberg’s original) with additional tools included for social scientists, mostly related to writing books or papers in LaTeX and analyzing quantitative data using ESS and R. The goal is to provide a drop-in configuration for Emacs that makes it easier to use right from the get-go. If you know about Git, you can clone the repository.

A collection of LaTeX style files, templates, and org-mode documents providing some nice layouts for typesetting articles using pdfLaTeX or XeLaTeX. They’re based around the Memoir class, the Listings or Minted source-code listing packages, and the VC bundle (for version control). Taken all together they make a pipeline that lets you begin with an .org file in Emacs (as set up in the Starter Kit), and go from there to a nice, fully-processed PDF in one step. However, you don’t need to use all the pieces together. For example you could just use one or other of the templates in your .tex files.