Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Connection is a nice piece of software. Wondering how to configure a desktop size so that it would fit perfectly into rotated monitor, I found the directions here to be very simple: To set a custom display resolution in an .rdp file Open the .rdp file in a text editor. Add or [...]
Just posted the updated version of DrSync for Racket on PlaneT.
Provided by Springer here. Unlike other LaTeX sites that provide code specifically for equation names; this seems to be a search engine for the LaTeX source of papers they have collected.
It bugged me that Cygwin didn’t include the ‘clear’ command. This post explains that installing the ‘ncurses’ package will add clear; and also that C:l will clear the screen in bash. Thanks Hafiz!
This command line tool for working with the Windows clipboard looks very useful for Windows power-users.
Here are two ways to render a ^ (carrotcaret) in plain text within LaTeX: \documentclass{article} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \begin{document} A caret: \verb|^| \end{document} \textasciicircum I tested them and both work as prescribed. They produce different carrotscarets. (via comp.lang.texcomp.text.tex) Addendum: 03/02/09 Corrected spelling of caret. Addendum: 03/03/09 Wrote the wrong newsgroup name.
daemontools is a collection of tools for managing UNIX services. supervise monitors a service. It starts the service and restarts the service if it dies. Setting up a new service is easy: all supervise needs is a directory with a run script that runs the service. multilog saves error messages to one or more logs. [...]
Active-DVI is a Unix-platform DVI previewer and a programmable presenter for slides written in LaTeX.
While reading this article, it occurred to me that one ought to approach LaTeX coding much as one would code in any other language: re-use whenever possible. Aspiring TeXnicians should get comfortable with searching for packages that contain the desired functionality, and using them, rather than starting from scratch each time. Perhaps this is something [...]
The tufte-handout document class defines a style similar to the style Edward Tufte uses in his books and handouts. Tufte’s style is known for its extensive use of sidenotes, tight integration of graphics with text, and well-set typography (via comp.text.tex)