Paul Sutton – personal blog
Learn LaTeX is a new website that aims to give users enough information to get started.
It looks very good so far and hopefully will help build up skills in this area. It won't cover everything but doesn't need to. Hopefully some of my posts will also complement this website.
It is great to see so many fresh resources out there. With the upcoming release of TeX Live 2020 the timing for this could not have been better.
#LaTeX, #Learn, #typesetting, #lessons, #basics
GNOME Community Engagement Challenge
Just found this on Twitter today, so sharing here.
With an idea to help get beginner coders interested in FOSS, and to help improve coding skills, the GNOME Foundation has teamed up with Endless for a Community Engagement Challenge.
Not gaming news but anything that helps Linux and the FOSS community is important, everything we do is on Linux and expanding the FOSS community is vitally important. Games are built with code obviously, so it's a good fit to mention!
Read more by following the link below
GNOME launches a 'Community Engagement Challenge' with cash prizes
Free print and play retro cards! |
I found this on Twitter so decided to share here, a set of printable playing cards (like top trumps). I think this is a limited set to print but you can purchase a much larger set in a Cassette case, money goes towards the Centre for Computing History
Follow Dominc Pajak on Twitter for more info.
LXDE Window size issues
Trying to use some of the LXDE applications on a 10/11” netbooks screen, appears to throw up a problem with the window size. The result of this is that the window for lxhotkey doesn't fit on the screen properly. As per illustration below.
I can resize this window, left to right, so horizontally. I can't resize vertically. Which is perhaps needed here.
This appears to be a common issue with many Linux applications on small screens.
I asked on #lxde on IRC and a workaround is to hold down 'alt' and click / drag the window around.
The issue can also be reported on github
#lxde,#application,#window,#size,#smallscreen,#netbooks,#lxhotkey
Toot is a Linux command line interface for the Mastodon social media network.
This can be installed at the command line with
apt install toot
Once installed you can run with toot
Running this without any command line arguments gives a long list of options.
You will firstly need to login, either with the browser option toot login or with the command line toot login_cli
In order to make a post type:-
toot post
There is also documentation via the man page.
man toot
A useful tool, especially if you don't have access to graphical web browser.
#mastodon, #toot, #commandline, #interface, #linux
Scratch Project 7
In an effort to help people keep kids occupied over the CoronaVirus (Covid-19) crisis. I am helping my local library with running a virtual code club. We are now on week to of the virtual code club.
Please contact Paignton Library for more information. Please use social media or e-mail as the library is closed.
#scratch, #education, #school, #homeschool, #activities, #covid19, Module2, #codeclub, #virtual
Licenced under Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Detexify is a great resource if you want to find a common or perhaps an unusual symbol to insert in to your $\LaTeX$ document.
When you go to the Detexify website [1] you are presented with a box to draw your symbol in. For this context I have the symbols tab selected.
So in the example below I have attempted to draw pi $\pi$. You can see that the website has attempted to find symbols resemble the one I have drawn.
It works for all sorts of things as per the two examples below. You don't need to be that good at drawing the symbol as some can be pretty complex.
This also works the other way. You can enter the name and the website will try and find the corresponding symbol as per below. In this case I am using the classify tab.
In both cases the website will tell you which package you can find this symbol in, and which $LaTeX$ command to use. You can find the package on CTAN [5] for more information on how to use that package. Or you can find the documentation on TeXLive [6].
Hopefully this article is helpful and will help. It is also designed to complement the tutorials at Learn LaTeX [3] which is a new resource.
This article can also complement the upcoming 2020 release of TeX Live [6).
#LaTeX, #Detexify,#symbols,#drawing,#help,#resource,#ctan.
1 Detexify 2 LaTeX Project 3 Learn LaTeX 4 Overleaf 5 CTAN 6 TeXLive
Biohackathon Starts today
5th April sees the start of the BioHackathon. Please see my previous post on this for details.
Or follow the link below:-
tmate
tmate — terminal multiplexer with instant terminal sharing
tmate is a useful Linux application. Lets say you need some help with fixing a problem. You need to be able to share your terminal with a trusted party, so that person, can help you within a shared terminal.
You can load tmate by :
You are presented with a screen, similar to that shown below. At the bottom, you get a unique a link, which you can give to the other party.
At the bottom you get something like this
[tmate] ssh session: ssh ALw*************QjF@l.tmate.io
I have added some *** so I am not putting my own system security at risk, but it is essentially a long lost of characters.
This only shows for a while however. You need to copy / paste this link in to an e-mail / irc or whatever your using to send it to a colleague who is going to help, so DO NOT post to a public forum.
You can see what that person is typing, and if any passwords need entering you can do that yourself and the other person can carry on with helping you.
At times this can be a really useful tool to help solve issues.
You are strongly advised to read the man page for this before use.
#Linux,#tmate,#terminal,#multiplexer,#technical.#support.
