Blog vs Epub, round 1

My fairy suggested a very nice Christmas gift for my (not so lil' anymore) nephews: she owns a thermal books binder and went "oh, but you could print some story of yours and bind it in a book with my machine... My audio processors catalyzed that into "how about stripping some meaningful text out of …

Text around figures in Latex

It gave me headaches, but finally i got it working. I discovered this morning that Computer Networks required pictures and bios of the authors, and that the elsarticle.cls latex class did not provide any standard mechanism to build these (not mentionning that my bio so far was entertaining, but absolutely not scientifical at all).i finally …

Indexing my Thesis

Okay. For those who have missed it so far, i'm writing down my PhD thesis ... and it's built with Latex.Updating and completing a 1 year-old Latex document with new parts coming from conference paper, autonomic thoughts, etc. is some challenge i haven't met so far, so i'm upgrading my toolset as well.Au cas où …

Power to XML

Okay, it's not everyday i say XML is a GoodThing(tm), so you should rather take it now before i take it back.I'm busy merging my active networks experiments into the next chapter in my Ph.D Thesis, and being a linux-guy, i'm doing this with gnumeric for data collection and analysis, then using inkscape for converting …

Printing Faire-Parts in Linux

C'était pendant la période d'impression des faire-parts ... Réalisés avec inkscape sous linux, terrible pour de la mise en page, mais assez incomplet lorsqu'il s'agit de recoller les 2 faces d'un faire-part (ou de n'importe quelle brochure) dans un document .pdf unique.J'ai donc ressorti ma panoplie de gourou linux (les manpages, quoi) pour chercher des …