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Custom reference corpora in keyword analysis

23 November 2022 — Posted in Taal by Alex

Today I added the option to directly compare two texts on the keyword analysis page.

Before today, only one general Dutch and one general English reference corpus could be loaded, but much of the time, a custom corpus is needed to get more informative results. For example, say you'd like to see a list of keywords in a certain novel. It makes sense to compare this novel to another novel, as in the screenshot below, or perhaps to a collection of other novels.

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Well, now you can. Simply copy-paste the reference corpus to the webpage, and you're good to go.

Embed fonts in a PDF for free on a Mac

12 November 2021 — Posted in Taal by Alex

This is a quick note for anyone struggling to generate PDF's which have their fonts included.

I had to supply plots to a publishing house, and when I opened one of the plots in my browser instead of in Adobe Reader, I saw the fonts changed. It turned out the font I used to generate text in R and GGPlot was not included in the PDF. As this happened only one day before the deadline, naturally, I freaked out a little – no need to, though, because on a Mac it is actually easy to embed fonts afterwards and you don't even need additional software.

Below, you'll find the steps needed.

Open the PDF in Preview (the default app) on a Mac.
Click on File, and then on Export.
Choose the Quartz-filter 'Generate generic PDFX-3 document'.
Save the file.

That's it! The fonts are now embedded. It is always wise to test it, so open the PDF in your browser, or on another computer, your phone et cetera.

I used some (outdated) information available at http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20060203175741232