i definitely want to use this for future LaTeX work

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As a beginning graduate student in the social sciences, what sort of software should you use to
do your work? More importantly, what principles should guide your choices? This article offers
some answers. The short version is: write using a good text editor (there are several to choose
from); analyze quantitative data with R or Stata; minimize errors by storing your work in a simple
format (plain text is best) and documenting it properly. Keep your projects in a version control
system. Back everything up regularly and automatically. Don’t get bogged down by gadgets, utilities or other accoutrements: they are there to help you do your work, but often waste your time
by tempting you to tweak, update and generally futz with them. To help you get started, I provide
a short discussion of the Emacs Starter Kit for the Social Sciences, a drop-in set of useful defaults
designed to help you get started using Emacs (a powerful, free text-editor) for data analysis and
writing.

I don’t actually know of anyone who read this blog that uses LaTeX (the joys of which I have blogged of in the past), but after spending way too much time today trying to figure out how to use XeTeX, which lets you use Mac OS X’s built-in fonts with LaTeX, I figured I’d post my really, really simple results here.

I use a slightly extended version of his example (I use mathspec instead of fontspec) in my drangreport file, but this was the post that got the ball rolling. Custom fonts in LaTeX don’t have to be a world of pain.