How to install revtex4-1 in Ubuntu… I was having trouble installing revtex4-1 in Ubuntu (well, actually Linux Mint, but it’s based on Ubuntu…). Suggestions to use revtex4-1.zip did not seem to work for me. …use the ‘texlive-publishers’ package In the end I found the solution to be a package “texlive-publishers” (http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-995840.html) To get revtex4-1 to… Read More »
I’ve made a command line interface for the excellent odtchomp, part of OOMMFTools. OOMMFTools, written by Mark Mascaro, contains ‘odtchomp’ which converts OOMMF odt files into delimited text files. These modified files can be more easily loaded into data plotting/manipulation software. odtchomper is a command line interface to the odtchomp component of OOMMFTools. It was… Read More »
Winpython is a project which brings together a number of scientific python programs and modules. For me such programs are always going to struggling to become a complete alternative to Matlab (while I have access to a matlab license at least…). I’ve not used it in anger, but this project does look pretty good. It… Read More »
Origin scripting can be very useful, but I’ve never really got to grips with it. To avoid having to use many different menus to manipulate workbooks, you can use ‘Before formula scripts‘ when you set column values. It took me a while to find a good guide on this, but this is what i was… Read More »
This post explains how I recovered using the standard pylab install in ubuntu after I initially tried to use the Enthought Python Distribution, and broke some packages. I try to install EPD I tried to install the Enthought Python Distribution on Ubuntu (12.04), having had some success with it on windows (and not realising that… Read More »