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Writing Praat scripts in a modular way

Praat is widely used in phonetic research. Working with Praat involves inevitably the Praat scripting. There are plenty of resources of Praat scripts as well as great tutorials to Praat scripting (see below). Why bother writing Praat scripts oneself? Praat scripts written by others can be helpful, but even an script is available which offer the functionality one needs, it is seldom exactly what one wants. It is normal to do some tailoring to the
2019-12-06
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用pandoc生成大型中文文档的痛点与解决方案

Pandoc是转换文本格式的利器。在用 Pandoc 转换中文文档和生成大型文档时,例如用中文写作毕业论文等时,会遇到一些很麻烦的问题。我在前面的博客里说过我在用 Markdown
2019-11-25
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Customizing pdf output of Pandoc

I am writing my PhD thesis and instead of using LaTeX, I want to write it in markdown together with Pandoc. This has several merits. I can easily transform the markdown file to docx for my supervisor to revise. It can also easily be transformed to pdf files through LaTeX. However, the default pdf output doesn’t conform to the format my school requires. What I am going to do is to customize the pdf format
2019-11-02
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