Monthly Archives: March 2008

Xorg.conf configuration — solved font size problem

Posted on March 21, 2008 by robfelty

Awhile ago I started having problems with some of my fonts on my computer at work. Interestingly enough, it only seemed to affect a very small minority of programs and situations, namely on startup, when Fedora is going through and … Continue reading →

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Finally a better LaTeX to html converter

Posted on March 19, 2008 by robfelty

About a year ago I wrote a post about my frustration with the lack of a good LaTeX to html converter. Recently I found one. It is called plasTeX, so named because it is written in python. Finally a converter … Continue reading →

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convert pdf to png with imagemagick

Posted on March 11, 2008 by robfelty

Imagemagick is a swiss-army knife of command-line image conversion, but can be a bit complicated to actually use. I have been making most of my figures with R lately, and printing them to pdfs, which I can include very easily … Continue reading →

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Seitan in a can

Posted on March 10, 2008 by robfelty

Sometime this past summer I made an interesting discovery in the international aisle of the local Food-Coop, Bloomingfoods — Seitan in a can. What is seitan you might ask? It is wheat gluten. And what is wheat gluten? It is … Continue reading →

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