Archive for April, 2010

running TeX tools from non-standard locations

Wednesday, April 28th, 2010

In some configurations (for example, when using MacTeX), if you copy a TeX-related binary to non-standard location, the tool stops working. More precisely, if a tool uses kpathsea library, special setup is required. More practically, is you compile something like dvisvgm, it might not work.

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finding deleted files in a subversion repository

Monday, April 26th, 2010

I needed file which was deleted some time ago. Thanks to Subversion, the task is easy as long as you remember the name of the file. Unfortunately, it wasn’t a case. Fortunately, I found a magic spell. In the directory where the file was located, say: svn log --verbose, and the output will contain all the names and the revisions.

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XML to paper publishing with manual intervention

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

My paper “XML to paper publishing with manual intervention” is accepted for XATA 2010 (XML: Aplicações e Tecnologias Associadas), 19 and 20 May, Vila do Conde, Portugal. Abstract:

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