Archive for January, 2007

When you are creating a design in css, you will often run into various problems. The problem is that you often don’t really know where the problem is. That’s where the problem is.
I was using “border: 1px solid red;” to determine where certain element was. This has several drawbacks… first, it adds 1px on each […]

I’ve been playing with (pdf)TeX lately, and I thought it might be a good thing ™ to transfer some of the Project Gutenberg e-texts to pdf. So I did. And now what?
The Project Gutenberg website seems quite nice on the first sight… even on the second sight… the books are neatly organized and searchable and […]

Is it even possible that I forgot to advertize my new project on my own blog?
So… here it goes: I created tsumego collections.
Some people obviously like it, as I can see some traffic from sources like something.mail.yahoo.com (someone sending emails with a link to my page?). I wonder if I should write an ad into […]

The other day I had an exam. It’s almost half of January, technically middle of winter, yet the temperature was around 10˚C in the morning. My one-hour walk to school was nice and helped me to relax before the exam. After seeing the test I was even happier, most of it was real easy. So […]

There are three desirable things, pick any two:

No orphans and widows (meaning single line of paragraph is not cut off on one page with the rest on another)
“Řádkový rejstřík” (that’s Czech, I have no idea what it’s called in english, it means that the lines ((not only) on opposing pages) should be corresponding)
Text area height […]

Hanging has been very popular recently… last week USA hanged Saddam, and now I am going to hang punctuation.
I have learned recently that pdfTeX supports hanging punctuation, which is pretty neat. An example:
\pdfprotrudechars=2
\rpcode\tenrm`\-=300
\rpcode\tenrm`\.=220
\rpcode\tenrm`\,=200
I have made a test of hanging punctuation (open the file and read on). There are six pages, first three typeset in Toruńska […]