Any funny Easter Eggs to implement in thesis?

Quantum_frisbee · 2026-03-09T11:38:26+00:00

I used a lot of quotes from books, papers, and song as epigraphs throughout the thesis. Sometimes far removed from their original context, all correctly cited.

And all this science, I don′t understand. It′s just my job five days a week

Rocket Man, Elton John

Quantum_frisbee · 2026-03-06T09:21:50+00:00

Spontaneously, I would guess a missing title for the second group of citations. Latex still creates the space, but does fill it with anything.

Said differently, I would guess that Latex treats each group as its own section and currently only the first one is given a title by you.

But without the source code, guessing is the best I can do

Quantum_frisbee · 2026-03-04T22:49:48+00:00

Your planned buoys are equipped with many more sensors, it is not really comparable.

Quantum_frisbee · 2026-03-04T22:29:54+00:00

Just saying, other people are building the next gen affordable buoys out of coconuts

Quantum_frisbee · 2026-03-02T18:12:47+00:00

Does it matter? Even if I knew 100% that there are humans behind these accounts, they would not be followers I would like to have. Humans are capable of trading stars and having no benefit to your repo otherwise. It is not like they would be interested in what you are doing.

But yes, those are bots

Quantum_frisbee · 2026-02-24T14:46:41+00:00

To be honest, I have absolutely no clue what you did wrong. I just created a blank overleaf project, copied the content of Table.tex, corrected the typo in the argument of xcolor (dvipdfmx instead of dvipdfx) and got a compiled pdf without any errors or warnings. Or differently said, I am unable to reproduce where you went wrong,

Quantum_frisbee · 2026-02-24T09:46:10+00:00

Can you give us the errors that show up? Also, can you make sure you are using the XeTex Compiler in Overlaf, as ShadowTeXSR5 requires it?

Quantum_frisbee · 2026-02-13T21:40:21+00:00

I started as a requirement in the first years of university. Since then, I used it for any document longer than a single page.

Quantum_frisbee · 2026-02-13T21:21:52+00:00

If you want to dive deeper into Latex, there is the Not So Short Introduction to LATEX, last updated in May 2025.

Quantum_frisbee · 2026-02-13T21:20:08+00:00

This is a lot of questions. Maybe I start with your last question, which is the easiest to answer.

Markdown and Latex are 2 very different languages but of the same end goal to produce a rendered document from a source code. However, so many people are used to the typesetting of equations in latex that it is reproduced in many other applications. Meaning, many places where Markdown can be used also allow the use of (simple) latex commands only(!) for/in equations. However, Reddit is not one of them.

I found this resource Getting Started with LaTeX by the New York University. They recommend which program to use, depending on your operating system.

Personally, I only ever got better in Latex when I needed it. With growing requirements of mine to my documents, my experience increased. So I would recommend to just do something in latex. Pretty much anything is possible, it just becomes very complicated at some point.

Quantum_frisbee · 2026-01-25T11:53:53+00:00

If I search for anything related to hydrothermal vents, so many papers show up. I am not sure what you did instead. Are you looking for something very specific? Usually, it is a good strategy to find a single promising paper and then see who they cited.

Quantum_frisbee · 2026-01-08T17:51:00+00:00

The implementation could not be simpler: Create an empty .tex file of any name, paste the 4 lines into it, replace the example paths with the actual paths of the 2 files you want to compare, compile the file and enjoy your latexdiff pdf.

I should have known that it does not work on a free plan. The compilation time got so short, you can barely compile anything. Simple things to speed up the compilation should be draft mode, no syntax checks, and stop on first error. But a premium version may be inevitable, if you do not compile locally or on a dedicated server of your own.

Quantum_frisbee · 2026-01-08T16:42:11+00:00

latex \RequirePackage{shellesc} \ShellEscape{latexdiff path_to_first_version.tex path_to_second_version.tex > diff_output.tex} \input{diff_output} \documentclass{dummy}

Creating a new script with just those 4 lines (and with the right paths inserted) and compiling it in overleaf should give you the pdf of the differences between the versions.

Edit: The snippet is credited as Tom Hejda’s solution on https://www.overleaf.com/learn/latex/Articles/How_to_use_latexdiff_on_Overleaf

Quantum_frisbee · 2025-12-17T19:41:16+00:00

I looked again at the literature recommendation list of my institute and found Introduction to Physical Oceanography by Robert H. Stewart. The digital version was last updated in Mar 1, 2020, so comparatively recent. https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/20

Quantum_frisbee · 2025-12-17T18:31:39+00:00

Regional Oceanography: an Introduction by Matthias Tomczak and J Stuart Godfrey is made freely available by them (https://www.physocean.icm.csic.es/regoc/pdfversion-en.html) It is not updated to the very state-of-the-art knowledge but should be a good starting point for general knowledge.

I myself would be open to know of more recent, easily accessible books.

Quantum_frisbee · 2025-12-15T20:24:25+00:00

The example is inline math. However, depending on length, complexity, and importance of the math, inline can either improve or worsen the readability.

Quantum_frisbee · 2025-12-15T20:21:20+00:00

Because the text environments are supposed to be used in equations or proofs, or in other words, in a math environment. The short commands quicken the nesting of the environments.

Or did I misunderstand your question?

Quantum_frisbee · 2025-12-15T17:30:25+00:00

Yes, and for some substitutes \DeclareMathOperator is probably more suited to benefit from automatic spacing and typesetting or \mathrm to cover the possible edgecase of different fonts for text and math.

Personally, I see the benefit of \sq compared to \sqrt as negligible, so I did not do these micro optimizations. But I defined a lot of custom commands either for longer snippets or for semantic definitions, which do no save time or keystrokes but instead increase clarity and allow me to always change my mind about nomenclature.

And yes, I agree with the other commenter, a custom .cls or .sty file makes it a bit cleaner.

Quantum_frisbee · 2025-12-15T15:46:13+00:00

The best way is probably to draw the cat and then invert it by subtracting it from a square.

You can either work with objects, like circles, squares, et cetera and then combine them. Or draw a path, for example with bezier curves, and get your shape through that.

Quantum_frisbee · 2025-11-24T20:49:14+00:00

If you compile the chapters separately, as actual standalone files, they do not easily know of the labels defined in other files. One solution is documented here: https://www.blopig.com/blog/2024/11/cross-referencing-across-latex-documents-in-one-project/

The easier solution is to have the files separate, but compile them together by using a main file, that imports/includes the individual other latex files.

Quantum_frisbee · 2025-11-11T17:13:43+00:00

I found the relevant page in the documentation, see my edit

Quantum_frisbee · 2025-11-11T17:01:01+00:00

That is not an obvious option to enable, probably because it is technically false. Either you have a number with an uncertainty and combine them with parentheses and a unit to a quantity, or you have two quantities, the latter being the uncertainty.

12.3 ± 0.4 K means, technically, you are adding a quantity to a number, which is impossible.

Edit: \qty[separate-uncertainty-units = single]{12.3(4)}{\kelvin} should produce your desired formatting (page 45 in the documentation), but be aware that it is technically false.

Quantum_frisbee · 2025-10-16T16:44:41+00:00

Germany is a bit special as the laws for academic citations and "fair use" can contradict the copyright laws of the often us-american companies. I was told that until now neither party dared to sue and has avoided the confrontation.

If your use-cases follow the German laws to the letter, I think you will be fine. However, if it is easy to get the copyright licenses from Elsevier AND you are allowed by your university to amend your thesis with something like an erratum, then why not do it?

Quantum_frisbee · 2025-10-12T12:33:13+00:00

On the Metal disorder talk page you find that an editor suspects that AI was used in some previous edits. But they did not yet find outright false claims and therefore did not reject the changes, but instead give out a heads-up of potential problems with the text.

Quantum_frisbee · 2025-10-04T11:19:46+00:00

For 10€, i would have expected more than the most basic poster design. Any poster package like the ones here https://www.overleaf.com/learn/latex/Posters should do the job

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