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Tag: Utility
Custom display sizes with Remote Desktop Connection
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 hereto be very simple:
To set a custom display resolution in an .rdp file Open the .rdp file in a text editor. Add or change the following settings: desktopwidth:i:<value> desktopheight:i:<value> where <value> is the resolution, such as 1680 or 1050.
The articles goes into detail about other ways to set the values.
Updated DrSync to Racket
Just posted the updated version of DrSync for Racket on PlaneT.
Search engine for LaTeX equations
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.
Clearing the Terminal Screen in Cygwin
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!
A Command Line tool for the Windows Clipboard
This command line tool for working with the Windows clipboard looks very useful for Windows power-users.
How to render a ^ (carrot) in normal LaTeX text
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
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. It optionally timestamps each line and, for each log, includes or excludes lines matching specified patterns. It automatically rotates logs to limit the amount of disk space used. If the disk fills up, it pauses and tries again, without losing any data.
(via PLT)
Active-DVI
Active-DVI is a Unix-platform DVI previewer and a programmable presenter for slides written in LaTeX.
LaTeX Advice
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 of a no-brainer, but, it is very easy to get caught up in the fact that you are writing, rather then coding, while using LaTeX.