Yearly Archives: 2008

Trying out bbpress

Posted on December 2, 2008 by robfelty

My wordpress plugins generate a lot of comments. Personally, I find it can be pretty hard to scroll through all the comments, and it can be quite slow to load as well. I have decided to try out bbpress for … Continue reading →

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TeX Live 2008 — reasons to upgrade

Posted on November 6, 2008 by robfelty

New features in pgf/tikz TeX Live 2008 was finally released about a month ago. I am a member of TUG, so I should be getting a DVD of it sometime soon, but today I finally decided I couldn’t wait, and … Continue reading →

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Collapsing archives updated

Posted on October 23, 2008 by robfelty

I have been very busy lately, but I have been working on the collapsing archives update for awhile. I have incorporated new features from collapsing categories into it, while trying to keep all the old features. One thing I have … Continue reading →

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Beamer fragile frames

Posted on September 22, 2008 by robfelty

If you want to include verbatim text, say for some program code, in a frame in beamer, you have to pass the fragile option to the frame, like so: \begin{frame}[fragile] \frametitle{a fragile frame} \begin{verbatim} some verbatim text here \end{verbatim} \end{frame} … Continue reading →

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Why doesn’t Mac update standard UNIX utilities?

Posted on September 15, 2008 by robfelty

I am currently teaching a course on programming for linguists. We are using python, but for the first few classes, I have been going over some standard UNIX utilities like cd, ls and such, plus using regular expressions with grep … Continue reading →

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