From e0c6872cf40896c7be36b11dcc744620f10adf1d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Norbert Preining Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2019 13:46:59 +0900 Subject: Initial commit --- macros/latex/contrib/dataref/README.md | 51 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 51 insertions(+) create mode 100644 macros/latex/contrib/dataref/README.md (limited to 'macros/latex/contrib/dataref/README.md') diff --git a/macros/latex/contrib/dataref/README.md b/macros/latex/contrib/dataref/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..bcd6362daf --- /dev/null +++ b/macros/latex/contrib/dataref/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,51 @@ +dataref +======= + +Writing scientific texts is a craft. It is the craft of communicating your results to +your colleagues and to the curious world public. Often your conclusions are based +upon facts and numbers that you gathered during your research for the specific +topic. You might have done many experiments and produced lot of data. The +craft of writing is to guide your reader through a narrative that is based upon +that data. But there may be many versions of that data. Perhaps you found a +problem in your experiment, while already writing, that forces you back into the +laboratory. After a while, the moon has done its circle many times, you return +from that dark place and your methodology has improved as significantly as your +data has. But now you have to rewrite that parts of the data, that reference the +old data points. +The dataref is here to help you with managing your data points. It provides +you with macro style keys, that represent symbolic names for your datapints. +You can reference those symbolic names with \dref, use them in calculations +to have always up-to-date percentage values, define projections between sets of +data points and document them. dataref also introduces the notion of assertions +(\drefassert) for your results to ensure that your prosa text references fit the +underlying data. + +Building the documentation +========================== +With latexmk installed: + + make + +or + + pdflatex dataref.tex; pdflatex dataref.tex; pdflatex dataref.tex + + +Examples +======== + +Setting symbolic data points + + \drefset{/count}{42} + \drefset{/abc}{23} + +Referencing them with \dref, \drefcalc, \drefassert + + \dref{/count} => 42 + \drefcalc{data("/abc") / data("/count")} => 0.55 + \drefassert{data("/abc") < data("/count")} + +Getting the latest version +========================== + +dataref is hosted at github: https://github.com/stettberger/dataref -- cgit v1.2.3