Paolo Redaelli personal blog

Author: Paolo Redaelli

Like a lined notebook?

Well, I really want to make my next LaTeX notes looking like this! From templates – How to use Latex to print a document to look like a lined notebook? – TeX – LaTeX Stack Exchange Well, actually I want it with a squared, checkered background, like paper sheets used in booklets

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Oh, what a joy discovering that TexLive packages in CentOS 7 are bugged or crippled beyond any reasonable amount!

Furthermore TeXlive in distros like CentOS 7 is crippled since they don’t offer the TeXlive Manager called tlmgr. So updating packages is a pain, since it has to be done manually, which is far from being trouble-free — newer versions of LaTeX packages could depend on newer versions of other LaTeX packages and so on and so on.And at last, TeXlive is just a snapshot of CTAN, at least regarding LaTeX packages and lots of other stuff. So having a possibility to update sounds like a very good idea to me.So as conclusion: Just forget the TeXlive packages from CentOS 7. Install the regular TeXlive. [5] As prerequisites you need to install the CentOS packages “perl-Tk” and “perl-Digest-MD5”, afterwards the installation should be pain-free

From: [RESOLVED] missing texlive files in Centos 7? – CentOS

Quite frankly I consider quite a failure to rely on the TexLive specific installer

pst-stru

pst-stru from GIUSEPPE MATARAZZO deserve some attention since it allow to draw parametric diagrams! As far as I can say no other structure plotting offer this feature. It’s quite sad that it only works only on PostScript as “modern” Tex versions tends to work on PDF.

Communicating securely

A small list of application and documentation about secure, private communications: Open Whisper Systems, Home of Signal Voice Over Internet Protocol and chat application.  Communicating with Others from ( A Project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation ) and also «Tips, Tools and How-tos for Safer Online Communications»