The utility psnup puts multiple logical PostScript pages onto each physical sheet of paper. Unfortunately, I’ve found that I don’t like result. I’ve got a better result after playing with pstops:
cat ~/print.ps | \\
pstops '2:0L@.6(19.5cm,1cm)+1L@.6(19.5cm,14cm)' -pa4 >out.psThere is rumour that sometimes people start to speak in a foreign language, even if they have never learnt or heard it. That could be assigned to the overworld mind. But I think the things are simplier.
Today I visited a German hospital. Unexpectedly, I alone had to entertain a 7-month German baby. So I recited Russian poetry for 2 hours. A seed for new wonder has been sowed.
I’d like to enhance an Adobe tool, so some retrospective is useful.
A funny quote from frameusers mailing list:
Creating XSL-FO is easy - I just tell a programmer what I want.
DU350PS is a SATA Hard Drive Mobile Rack with USB 2.0 interface. It seems working under my Linux. No special setup required.
Just a note to myself what to do before “apt-get dist-upgrade”:
apt-get clean apt-get check apt-get update apt-get install gnupg bzlib apt rpm
I’ve decided to try XML support in browsers. Half hour later I crashed Mozilla 1.7.2 using expression:
document('authors.xml',document(''))//author[@id=current()/@idref]
Back to xsltproc.
Notebook “Aspire 1610″ has an internal modem which identified by lspci as “Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC’97 Modem Controller (rev 02)”. It took much time to make it working under Linux.
A small Lisp vs Python article: “Python for Lisp Programmers“. The title is very untraditional, one expects Python and Lisp swapped.
After two-month rest, I recently got modem Internet connection. Expecting upgrade to DSL in the new year.
I tired of MovableType spam. More and more spam sites. Finally, I’ve added mask “.*” to the filter.
I generated an HTML version of a product catalogue and found that the result was very bad due to poor PNG images. To get good PNG images, I had to write some code. Here it is: convertor from eps to other formats.
I’ve prepared a mini-bio for a possible DDJ article:
Oleg Paraschenko is a PhD student in the Saint-Petersburg State University, Russia, and a freelance developer in the area of technical documentation. His main research interests are XML technologies and generative programming. In spare time he supports xmlhack.ru, a server for Russian-speaking XML community.
From a letter to the libxml mailing list. Probably it’s well known, but I’d like to share useful gdb settings. From my ~/.gdbinit:
Although Acrobat Reader 5.0 is supposed to support Unicode bookmarks, it doesn’t. I can make bookmarks “ßß” or “яя“, but I can’t create a bookmark “ßя“. Alas, only a slice of unicode per bookmark.
I need to check if a float value is actually an integer. If so, I use the value as integer, otherwise as float.
After fixing problems with garbage collection, other memory errors are trivial, even if they take a while. This time I used xmlXPathConvertString, which frees its argument. I must read documentation more attentive. What I need is xmlXPathCastToString.
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