Category: Research and Teaching
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Awang Satyana: Books, the world he can’t live without
(Image: stack of published paper, private collection) Dear friends, Selamat berlibur Lebaran. Mohon maaf lahir dan batin. Di tengah kehikmatan Idul Fitri tahun ini, saya coba merenung. Di usia saya yang menjelang 40 tahun, saya sudah berbuat apa. Post di wall Facebook Awang Satyana, membuat saya merenung lebih keras, sudah menghasilkan apa saya ini. Berikut…
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Tribute to Awang Satyana
Hopefully, Next week I will finish and post a tribute to Awang Satyana, one of the prominent Indonesian geologist. The post will verbatimly linked to his post at his Facebook Wall. There will be three posts: Books: the world he can’t live without Publish or perish: more than 20 years of writing history The geology…
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Example of LaTeX presentation
(image from: www.imdb.com) This post is actually a short tutorial on how to make a simple geoscience presentation. I made it for my undergraduate and master students. I posted the pdf at onlinewaterbook.wordpress.com. The following is the LaTeX code of the slides. I am borrowing the template from Sascha Frank from University Freiburg. % % %…
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How to build a geoscience presentation (part 1)
(image from: www.imdb.com) Geoscience has been placed as a rocket science, due to its complexity. The audience is considered to be very specific. I mad these slides for my undergrad (and also my master students) in Bahasa Indonesia. It contains a few notes on how to make a worthy geoscience presentation. I made it with LaTeX by…
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Blog updates
I posted two articles on my blogs: Pentingnya menampung air hujan (Rain harvesting): blog.fitb.itb.ac.id/derwinirawan Minimal LaTeX packages: onlinewaterbook.wordpress.com View on Path
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Minimal LaTeX Packages
(image from: CTAN.org) Dear friends, I’ve been using LaTeX (with TeX Studio) for about two years now. I use it mostly for long-formatted document. And by long, I mean more than five pages with several headings and subheadings. More light editing or letter, I use LibreOffice. As a typesetter (not a word processor), most begineer will bump…
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The Famous Five
Bull’s eye everyone. Another thing from my childhood. I bought this book at Kids and Babies Market at Five Docks Leisure Center (July 20, 2014). It even has someone’s name with his birthday date. View on Path
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Wrong image gives you LaTeX error
False image format can cause premature end{document} in LaTeX Dear friends, I posted my problems on Microsoft Powerpoint (ppt) yesterday, at my wp blog. Binaries just give you more than just a bunch of 0 and 1. Versioning problem was just one of them. Newer version creates file that older version can’t open. Or perhaps…
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The perks of using PowerPoint
Dear friends I haven’t used Windows, or Microsoft Office for quite sometime now. But this morning I try to test my wife’s PhD progress slides using both apps. Being an Ubuntu and Mac user, it isn’t a pain to spare several GB to Windows partition. I used the…
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New abstract posted
Dear friends, I’ve posted three abstracts (in pdf) at My online water book for the upcoming International Conference on Mathematics and Natural Sciences (ICMNS) 2014 (ICMNS). The international event will held at ITB in November 2014. Cheers, Erwin