C.Hermann's work blog

In Acrobat 6 you first have to enable the Tools keyboard shortcuts (see picture).

then you can press Ctrl+l to go to fullscreen mode, then press n to enable the pen tool.

With xetex you can easily use Opentype fonts in latex. There is no need for any conversion or anything, xetex can use any of the fonts you installed on your system (works fine unter linux) even if its opentype fonts that are not postscript, but truetype flavored. Unter Gentoo Linux you just install app-text/xetex (additionally to tetex) and thats it!

% Load fontspec package to easily use fonts
\usepackage{fontspec}
% set fonts
\fontspec[BoldFont={Textra LT Com}, BoldFeatures={Weight=1.4}]{Textra LT Com}
\setromanfont{Textra LT Com}
%\setsansfont{Textra LT Com}
%\setmonofont{Textra LT Com}

Inserting this makes the default font "Textra LT Com" (you can find out this name with fc-list). Then you can run xelatex (i.e. "xelatex myfile" if your tex file is called myfile.tex) on the File and it will result in a pdf nicely formatted using your font. [Update 2007-06-21]: If you upgraded freetype to Version >2.1.10-r3 (media-libs/freetype-2.1.10-r3) this might break the opentype/xetex support. So just downgrade to 2.1.10-r3 and everything should be fine again.

emerge -av =media-libs/freetype-2.1.10-r3

[Update 2007-07-23]: Make sure you also mask freetype packages > this Version, else the next upgrade will break it again

grep freetype /etc/portage/package.mask
>media-libs/freetype-2.1.10-r3

First, one has to download the Lecturnity Jar File. Then, i wrote this small shell-script (i called it "lecturnity-player") to start the lecturnity player with parameters:

#!/bin/sh

JAR="player170p6.jar"

# check Java Home and set it if not available (Gentoo-Version)
if [ -z "$JAVA_HOME" -o "$JAVA_HOME" = "" ]
then
        JAVA_HOME=`java-config --jre-home`
fi

$JAVA_HOME/bin/java -jar /opt/lecturnity/$JAR $@

If $JAVA_HOME is already set on your system (echo $JAVA_HOME) you don't need the JAVA_HOME-Check. chmod the File executable: chmod u+x lecturnity-player Then you can play lecturnity Files with lecturnity-player /path/to/file.lpd. One Remark: It is not possible to player the Video Versions under Linux (at least it does not work here, it simply plays them without Video). Using this with Firefox: Click on a link to a Lecturnity File and choose lecturnity-player in the "run with" Dialog. Then Lecturnity Files will automatically play when you click on a link (takes some time to start the player).

Today we had a visit by a bird of prey (Greifvogel; Turmfalke (in german) also known as Falco tinnunculus). He seemed to be very young and shy. Thats why i first took a picture through the windows (good idea) because when i tried to open the window very silently he flew away . Anyway at least i got one picture

K: I threw the butter out of the window. Do you know why?
C: hm?
K: Because i wanted to see the butter fly.

K: You always sleep longer than all of us. Do you know why?
C: No?
K: You are taller than all of us.

Mir scheint die Firmware unseres Kopierers wurde geupgraded. Anstatt

Schlüsselzähler einstecken

berichtet er jetzt

Benutzercode eingeben.

Ich hoffe jedenfalls, dass sich damit auch das "Tonerrest entfernen"-Problem gelöst hat, das eigentlich "Papierstau entfernen"-Problem heissen müsste.

[Update 2007-02-07 15:26]

Wie ich gerade erfahren habe kriegen wir morgen einen ganz neuen Kopierer, weil unserer schon wieder streikt.

This is how the authors List on Papers is ordered. You can verify this easily through Google Scholar.
Thanks to phdcomic.com.

I just discovered a nice little Comic on phdcomics.com which gives you hints on what name your thesis shall have.

Guten Tag,
wir wollen ein "Ping Pong Spiel" mit Javascript herstellen. Aber wir haben ein Problem und kommen nicht weiter. Dann kamen wir auf die Idee an die Universität für Informatik in Rostock zu schreiben und um Hilfe zu bitten.

Okay, University of Rostock... very interesting.

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