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and I rely on it to share preprints for most of my work. It’s usually fairly easy to share a paper by uploading the LaTeX source files. But recently I hit a snag due a conflict between a journal’s requirements, arXiv’s backend, and the LaTeX install on my own machine. I wasted probably a couple of hours on trying to identify the problem (mostly tied to the biblatex package) and get a clean solution, but in the end I did the simplest thing I could think of and wanted to share it here. PROBLEM: I needed to use the biblatex package to properly format my references for IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering (TBME). biblatex is very finicky with version numbers and it was recently updated. arXiv won’t compile a source whose bbl file (i.e., reference list) was generated from a different version than its system. SOLUTION: Disable use of biblatex in the version uploaded to arXiv, since they don’t have TBME’s formatting requirements. For more rambling about how I stumbled into this problem, read on … of options for alignment and spacing. However, what if you regularly make major changes and need to keep multiple latex docu*ent versions? In this post, I’ll talk about how to do this using switches. Continue reading “Multiple LaTeX Docu*ent Versions Using Switches” → This is third and final of a series of posts on plotting in MATLAB. This series is focusing on suggestions and considerations to get your plot looking “just right” for your paper or presentation. In the first post Here, I will talk about using a plot wrapper to automate most of your work. I will also talk about exporting your figure to whatever format Continue reading “How to Make Better Plots in MATLAB: Plot Wrapper” → This is the second of a short series of posts on plotting in MATLAB. This series is focusing on suggestions and considerations to get your plot looking “just right” for your paper or presentation. By the end automatically. In this post, I’m talking about text in figures. These include axis labels, legends, and other annotations.