led latex editor and mendeley desktop why should they be a part of graduate student’s arsenal?...

LED LaTeX Editor and Mendeley Desktop

Why should they be a part of Graduate Student’s arsenal?

Presented By:

Syed Faraz AhmedResearch Assistant

EE Dept. KFUPM

Because Graduate Students…

Need organization and management of research papers …

Need user-friendly editing tool for writing and editing Thesis, Papers etc..?

Organization of the Presentation

PART: I

LEd a user friendly LaTeX Editor

PART: II

Mendeley Software for managing and collaborating research papers etc.

What is LEd ?

“LaTeX Editor” - an environment for rapid TeX and LaTeX document development

LEd offers:

- a project manager - powerful editor

- integrated spellchecker and thesaurus - build-in DVI viewer

- descriptive hints for LaTeX commands - code complete mechanism

- word wrapping - code folding

- Basic package only 6 MB of disk space !

LEd Project management

TeX/LaTeX sources

Bibliographical data in BibTeX format

Document class and package sources

METAFONT font sources

Tables of contents, lists of figures, and tables

EPS files

Other types.

LEd integrates a project manager, editor, viewer, and more

More than 2200 buttons for LaTeX symbols

For each button representing a symbol a hint is provided describing the command syntax and, if necessary, which external package should be used

In the editor window, hints for symbols contain also a bitmap showing the symbol

Descriptive hints

Highlights the contents of the file to ease editing process

This reduces the help usage

Hints provided for: syntax of the command

short description

description of the command parameters

example of usage

remarks (if something special can be said about the command)

Built-in DVI viewer

TeX/LaTeX compilers output DVI files viewed with a built-in DVI viewer of LEd !

Unlike Word etc.LaTeX is not WYSWYG

Multiple Projects / Files View

Print quality preview

Different zoom levels

Support for EPS files

Message Window

Built-in DVI viewerA two-way navigation (you can double click on the previewed page to move to the related place in the source text and also double click in the contents window to show the related page in the viewer).

Other Useful Features

Code folding

Parts of the source text can be collapsed to one line

Parenthesis Coloring

Parentheses are colored depending on the nesting level

Matched parentheses are highlighted

Code completion

Supports completion for LaTeX commands

Suggested commands hints are also available

Labels and bibliographical entries defined in the document are also supported

Lastly…

Multi-lingual Dictionary and Thesaurus

Can be used with any TeX distribution(full functionality is available with a distribution based on TeXLive or MiKTeX)

Built-in Spellchecker

Not only LaTeX / TeX

Free to download and use !!

Acknowledgement:

LEd Help Guide

www.latexeditor.org/

www.mendeley.com

Syed Faraz AhmedElectrical Engineering DepartmentK.F.U.P.M.

10th May 2011

Mendeley is for● Researchers

● Scholars and educators

● Graduate and undergraduate students

● Information management professionals

● Librarians

What is Mendeley? Creating your library Managing your documents & references

Inserting citations & generating bibliographies

Sharing references using groups

Agenda

What is Mendeley?

What is Mendeley?

Mendeley is free academic software (Win, Mac & Linux) to manage, share, read, annotate and cite your research papers...

...and a research network to manage your papers online, discover research trends and statistics, and to connect to like-minded researchers.

Creating your library

What is Mendeley?

Set up and manage your reference groups

Add tags & notes and edit document details

Library showing all your documents (citation or table view)

Filter your papers by authors, keywords, tags, or publications

Adding your papers

You have different options to set up your library:

• Add single files or an entire folder • “Watch a folder” to automatically import PDF

files• Drag and drop PDFs into Mendeley Desktop

… and Mendeley will try to extract the document details automatically

You can also:• Add existing EndNote/BibTeX/RIS databases• Sync with other reference management

webapps• Use Mendeley Web Importer to add from

online databases• Add from the Mendeley Research Catalog

Document details lookup

Enter the DOI, PubMed, or ArXiv ID and click on the magnifier glass to start lookup

Missing info is added automatically

Web Importer

To install the Web Importer, drag & drop the bookmarklet to your Favorites/Bookmarksin your internet browser

Supported sites

www.mendeley.com/import

The Web Importer helps you grab citations off the web

Using the Web Importer

On the web page with the reference(s) you want to capture: click on the bookmarklet…

…then click on “Import” to import the reference/paper to your Mendeley library. If possible/available, also the associated PDF will be imported.

Synchronize and manage your library online

You can also add references and edit & manage your library online

Managing your documents & references

Manage your library

Star your favorite papers

Documents can be marked read/unread

Filter by authors, tags, publications or keywords

Open attached PDF files in integrated viewer

Search as you type

Full text search in Mendeley’s PDF viewer

Annotate and highlight

Mendeley‘s File Organizer

You can find the File Organizer inTools > Options > File Organizer

Citing and sharing references

Citing in Word & Open Office

Click on “Insert Citation” in Word

Highlight the paper(s) you want to cite

Citing in Word & Open Office

Citation will show up based on selected style

Cite into Google documents

or other editors by copy & paste

Generate a bibliography in one click!

Share references with Mendeley GroupsGroups can be private or public (invite only or open)

View the group online – other users can request to join or simply follow the activity of the group

Public groups only have the reference details – no full text. Private groups contain the full text including notes & annotations.

Create Groups in Mendeley Desktop

Private groups contain the full text.

Public groups share references only.

Create Groups in Mendeley Desktop

You can also create groups online.

Create your professional research profile

Search the Mendeley Research Catalog

Get readership information on papers

Leave feedback and see what’s coming nextVisit

http://feedback.mendeley.comto see what others are saying, leave feedback, request features or report bugs.

Using Mendeley

Scenario 1:

Use Mendeley as your free and flexible literature management software

Scenario 2:

Create public reading lists & collaborate with colleagues

Scenario 3:

Create a public research profile and discover research statistics in your field

Why choose Mendeley? • It is free - basic version

• Mendeley is a good bibliographic database, provides a desktop version for your PC / Laptop and a web version

• Mendeley synchronises desktop and web versions. Access your databases away from your own computer, over the Web

• Mendeley is good with pdfs, automatically extracting bibliographic information from pdfs on  import

• Mendeley can import existing databases from EndNote, CiteULike, 2collab and Zotero, or any database in RIS format

Why choose Mendeley?

• Mendeley provides a plugin to integrate with Microsoft Word and Open Office

• Mendeley provides the facility for you to collaborate over the web to create group bibliographies

• Mendeley provides a space for you to create an online profile to share research interests and network

• Mendeley has a database of 73M+ references you can search and suggests related references for your search results

Mendeley’s 10 Largest Userbases

Stanford University MIT Harvard UniversityUniversity of Cambridge University of MichiganRWTH Aachen Cornel l University University of EdinburghImperial College London University College London

Join the KFUPM Electrical Engineering Group at Mendeley:

http://www.mendeley.com/groups/1088821/kfupm-electrical-engineering/

Acknowledgement:

“Getting Started with Mendeley”

www.mendeley.com/

Presentation Adapted from Mendeley web-resource

Thank You !