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How I make a linguistic handout

Making a linguistic handout needs some tricks. Using MS word is not ideal because the output is not that beautiful and linguistic contents are not . In this post I explain how I make a linguistic handout with markdown and of course LaTeX. The workflow I usually write documents using markdown and convert it to pdf using pandoc, as explained in my previous posts. I have a same head/template for all handouts, so that the

Export and import pdf bookmarks

It is sometimes useful to export and import the bookmarks of an existing pdf file to a new pdf file with smaller size. This can be easily done using pdftk. pdftk is available as GUI and commandline tools. In MacOS, it is better to use it in the terminal. After installation of pdftk, the bookmarks of one pdf file can be extracted from an existing pdf file and imported to a new pdf file using

How to setup an IPA input method

Use RIME RIME is an input method engine. It can run different input method schemas, and of course, IPA. There are two schemas which are available in RIME, yunlong and xsampa. To use these schemas, you need to install RIME. It can be installed on Windows, MacOS and Linux. After installation, there are two files you need to modify to complete the configuration. The first is default.custom.yaml. My configurations of this file are as below.