Softcover binding your own books is easier than you think
Bookbinding for dummies As of late, I have been printing quite a lot of long mathematical papers, and a few free pdf-books, or tutorials. And I wanted them properly bound, but didn’t want them so much as to pay for it. A few months ago, I found this tutorial on hardback binding. Although the tutorial, method and result are great, it is quite a lengthy effort.
Get arbitrary size fonts in LaTeX You have probably wondered how to get really big fonts in titles, or anywhere in a LaTeX document.
\usepackage{fix-cm} % Allows for Computer Modern fonts of arbitrary sizes
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\fontsize{60}{70}\bfseries A SAMPLE
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You are done. Easy, wasn’t it? You may also be interested in ParseList(ScrambleList(Relateds(Latex,Linux)),5)
Today I found some nice “gadget” to add to my browser. TiddlyWiki.
It is a single html document you download, and save. And it behaves (locally, in your computer!) just as a wiki. Creating links, adding things, whatever you like. Use it like a blog, wiki, recipe book, sketchpage, whatever you like. All gets saved in the same html file you downloaded (advise: change its name).
Wikipedia page.
TiddlyWiki home.
I have been experimenting with exponential-power potentials in my fractal images as of late, and by far the best results have been these. You can download it as a desktop wallpaper, hope you enjoy it. This Douady rabbit appears as a capture zone for a critical value in an exponential family.
Douady rabbit in an exponential family, available below as wallpaper
Douady rabbit for desktop background 1280x800
Douady rabbit for desktop background 1024x768
The first day, on our way to the Parador at Carmona (Sevilla, Spain) this is what we saw.
For those of you who don’t know, PostScript is a programming language (and also the name of the type of files you write in this language) used as a way to define what a page looks like. A PostScript file contains instructions which create text, or draw images, and these instructions can do quite a lot of work. PostScript is directly processed by almost all laser printers, and if you are a Linux or MacOs user you already have some mean to process and open it.