Thursday, February 23, 2006

Linux console and xterm keymapping

Absolute for anyone who is irritated with erratic behavior of different *nix consoles and terminal emulators.

Thursday, February 16, 2006

Thursday, February 09, 2006

Firefox extension packaging script

Pre-requisite:
  1. 7zip or any other compression utility.
  2. This script must be run from top most, build directory (i.e. where install.rdf and chrome directory resides).
  3. The directory must have the exact same name as the chrome/jar name in install.rdf. It is case SENSITIVE.
#!/bin/bash
x=`basename \`pwd\``
mkdir build/
mkdir build/chrome
cd chrome
7z a -tzip "$x.jar" * -r -mx=0
mv "$x.jar" ../build/chrome
cd ..
cp install.* build
cd build
7z a -tzip "$x.xpi" * -r -mx=9
mv "$x.xpi" ../
cd ..
rm -rf build

Saturday, February 04, 2006

Presentation slides with LaTeX

  • TeXPower is a bundle of style and class files for creating dynamic online presentations with LaTeX written by Stephan Lehmke.

  • Ppower4 - A program written in Java that post processes (La)TeX files formatted with pdf(la)tex to be able to build pages step by step during a presentation. [Free]

  • Beamer - An excellent LaTeX class that supports dynamic effects (for both ps- and pdf-documents). [Free]
  • Prosper - A LaTeX class that supports dynamic effects (for both ps- and pdf-documents). [Free]
  • Utopia PDF Presentations Bundle - provides accessories which facilitate the production of PowerPoint-like presentations from (La)TeX source. [Commercial]