commands.md

Useful commands when writing a thesis in LaTeX

doi2bib

This Bash function will return BibTex citations for every DOI passed (just the DOI, no prefixes nor URLs).

doi2bib() {
    for arg in $@; do
        curl -LH "Accept: application/x-bibtex" "http://dx.doi.org/$arg"
        echo
    done
}

Compress a pdf with ghostscript

gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=dissertation-compressed.pdf dissertation.pdf

Crop a figure contained in a PDF

pdfcrop my.pdf

LaTeX to plain tex

Perfect for spell and grammar checks. I used LanguageTool and Microsoft Word Online.

detex dissertation.tex > dissertation.txt