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IPython 2.0 has been released!

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IPython 2.0 is actually out now! Yay! (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ipython)
If you don’t believe me then just:

pip install --upgrade ipython

See what’s new at http://ipython.org/ipython-doc/2/whatsnew/version2.0.html

but the highlights are:

  • interactive widgets for the notebook
  • directory navigation in the notebook dashboard
  • persistent URLs for notebooks
  • a new modal user interface in the notebook
  • a security model for notebooks.

You can check out the example IPython notebooks http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/ipython/ipython/blob/master/examples/Index.ipynb on nbviewer.

The guys and gals at IPython HQ are asking that we all please give it a test. They plan to have 2.0.1 released within a month – based on the initial feedback.

Bring on the bug reports!

Meeting on the 28th Feb.

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For our meeting this week we have an overview of referencing in LaTeX from the wonderful Damian Murphy.

WHERE:
IMAS AURORA LECTURE THEATRE – it’s the big lecture theatre on the left as you walk into the waterfront building foyer.
WHEN:
FRIDAY 28th Feb at 9:30am
All future meetings will be in this room on friday mornings. This is because it’s really hard to find space in the waterfront building during the Uni semester and it turned out that friday morning is the only time we can easily book space. As of this week, I have booked every friday until the rest of the year… So get your thinking caps on and let me know what you’d like to talk about in the future.

How to LaTeX

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On Wednesday the 19th Feb 2014 the wonderful Tom Remenyi gave us an overview of the LaTeX document preparation system and worked through his famous LaTEX training document.

For those that couldn’t attend here are a few useful links and videos to bring you up to speed:

  • Most importantly, here is a link to the downloads page for Tom’s LaTeX training document [ https://utas.academia.edu/TomasRemenyi/Teaching-Documents ]. This is a ‘how to use LaTeX’ training document. It is aimed at people who do not like using MS Word or Mac Pages for producing large documents and do not know how to write computer code. It aims to gently introduce LaTeX to users and considerably lower the learning curve.
  • Tom’s recommendations for installing LaTeX: If on a Mac, download the latest version of MacTeX. This comes with TeXShop as the main ui and is a very smooth and gentle tool for working in LaTeX [ http://www.tug.org/mactex/ ]. If you’re on Windows or Linux, download the latest version of MikTeX, which is based on TeXShop [ http://miktex.org/ ]. Please keep in mind that there are many ‘flavours’ of LaTeX user interface out there and that these are just a couple of simple examples – try to find the one that best fits your workflow and style. Google is your friend.
  • A great cheat-sheet of commonly used LaTeX commands: [ http://www.stdout.org/~winston/latex/latexsheet.pdf ]

Finally, the ethos of TexWorks – simple, clean, uncluttered, powerful: