bibtex: Not writing to <project-path>/src.blg (openout_any = p).

I couldn't open file name `<project-path>/src.blg'

To get rid of the error, open texmf.cnf, which resides in /usr/share/texlive/texmf/web2c through
sudo gedit /usr/share/texlive/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
Then find the entry

openout_any = p

p is the paranoid setting. I changed it to r and it now works again (chapeau to dmj).

[update 31 Jan 2013] If sudo is not an option and thus texmf.cnf can’t be changed, see Sini’s helpful comment below. [/update]

If you want to learn about multiple bibliographies using multibib, there is a very good tutorial by peisistratos. Unfortunately it is in German, but I’m sure there are English ones out there, too.

Strikethough in LaTeX using »ulem«

\usepackage{ulem} in the preamble gives you two ways to strike out text (and a couple more for underlining):

1. \sout{text

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In short: To avoid the standard pixel bitmap fonts and go for smooth, scalable post script ones, use one of the following:

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In css there is the handy absolute positioning. Today I found out how to do it in LaTeX:

In the preamble

\usepackage{textpos}

In the document

\begin{textblock}{2}[0,0](8,1.5)
    Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet
\end{textblock}

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I left biting marks in the table on this one. I don’t know if it’s a general issue or just my document. Anyway:

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There are various possibilities to include Greek text in your LaTeX document. The three ones I found are these:

1. $\Gamma\rho\varepsilon\varepsilon\kappa$ gets you Γρεεκ allright, but it looks clumsy and lacks all the accents etc.
2. betababel. It does not work with my customised control sequences, and I am too lazy to change them and learn them all anew.
3. polutonikogreek. Neat, slim, worked straight away.

Nos. 2 & 3 use ngerman, so make sure they don’t start a fight with german.

update

I had a slight problem with polutonikogreek and titletoc. Whenever I used something like
\greek{p’olemos}
which referred to this entry in the preamble:
\newcommand*{\greek}[1]%
   {\selectlanguage{polutonikogreek}{#1}%
   \selectlanguage{german}}
the .toc-file looked like this at the corresponding place:
[…]
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {1.1}KAPITEL-1.1}{14}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {1.1.1}UNTERKAPITEL-1.1.1}{14}
\select@language {polutonikogreek}
\select@language {german}
\select@language {polutonikogreek}
\select@language {german}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {1.1.2}UNTERKAPITEL-1.1.2}{20} […]
Wherever \select@language appeared in the toc, the styling of my toc entries of the subsection level was being messed up. I style subsection entries in the toc in a way that they all get written in a single line. It looks like this:

\titlecontents*{subsection}[3.5em]
   {\vspace{-0.5mm}\itshape\footnotesize}{}%
   {}{\dots\normalfont\footnotesize%

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How it does work:

Here is what we do: We define the counter
\newcounter{MyCounter}

then we add

\renewcommand\theMyCounter{\roman{MyCounter}}

after it, and it works. Thanks to Axel for his help on this.

How it does not work:

When you define a new counter like this

\newcounter{MyCounter}

And later use it like this

\refstepcounter{MyCounter}\label{example}
\roman{MyCounter}. Beispiel eins

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