LaTeX Tip: Dynkin Diagrams using Tikz

Hi everyone, I’ve include the code for drawing Dynkin diagrams using Tikz package in LaTeX \begin{center} \begin{tikzpicture}[scale=.4] \draw (-1,0) node[anchor=east] {$A_n$}; \foreach \x in {0,…,5} \draw[xshift=\x cm,thick] (\x cm,0) circle (.3cm); \draw[dotted,thick] (0.3 cm,0) — +(1.4 cm,0); \foreach \y in {1.15,…,4.15} \draw[xshift=\y cm,thick] (\y cm,0) — +(1.4 cm,0); \end{tikzpicture} \end{center} \begin{center} \begin{tikzpicture}[scale=.4] \draw (-1,0) node[anchor=east] [...]

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LaTeX Tip: New name after compilation

If you want to compile a file, say Base.tex, and get the PDF with other name, use the -jobname option $ pdflatex -jobname MyBook Base.tex In the example you’ll get a PDF file called MyBook.pdf Enjoy

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Table of all possible irreps of Lie groups

Last weekend, I wrote a program in SAGE that list all possible irreps of a Lie group, one specified the group (in Cartan’s classification) and the maximum sum of the Dynkin labels. Check the notebook in here. Since I’m not a programmer, please feel free to leave comments, specially if you find ways to optimize [...]

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Organization of LaTeX documents

When I started to write documents in , I found myself diving into .tex, .out, .aux, .pdf, .jpg files and so on. Thus I developed a system for organizing the files. (If you are starting with might find useful my previous post here) The Basic First, I create a LaTeX folder in my personal Documents [...]

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Document edition with LaTeX

I define myself as a lover. I write all my documents using . In this post I’d like to review some features about writing and compilation. Since I’m a Linux user, and don’t have any idea on how does windows work, I’ll restrict myself to Linux OS… particularly Debian based ones, such as, Ubuntu, Mint, [...]

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