If you are only interested in the how-to, skip the first section of this post. This blog post supports the good points made by Christopher
Writing Paper and Managing References Every researcher will have a story to tell about the time invested in getting the references for a paper or report right. After all those years I am still surprised how much emphasis is given to the list of references, and whether it is well formatted.
This blogpost is primarily written for my future self. I am notoriously forgettting how things are done. This is partly linked to me playing around with too many things at the same time or simply not having used a specific feature for a while. This page hopefully helps filling in as an aide memoire.
Displaying Code Chunks Without Executing Them Code Chunk Blocks Yihui provides examples for displaying verbatim code chunks.
My journey with the Academic Theme included a few tweaks.
adding a subtitle to the home page Subtitle on Home Page Possibly, because I could not think of a better page title than “my home on the web!”, I had the urge to add a subtitle. Amazingly, the Academic theme does not support this per se.
I failed to find something useful on google and in particular for the Academic theme, but I had fading memories about reading about self-defined parameters elsewhere.