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[HTML/CSS] Web-Fonts - Don’t let “them” get you

Posted 02-25-2020 at 01:56 PM by Michael Uplawski
Updated 02-13-2022 at 10:43 AM by Michael Uplawski (13/02/2022 url of the handwritten version updated)

Thread: ttf works, why should I use woff?
A styled version of this document: http://www.uplawski.eu/articles/Linu...web-fonts.html
A hand-written version of this document: http://www.uplawski.eu/articles/Linu...eb_fonts1.html


One of my bosses once said that, when things start to become complicated, it means that an error has been committed.

Where programming is concerned, I usually arrive to back-trace my actions...
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Paradigms exist to be broken

Posted 10-29-2016 at 12:39 AM by Michael Uplawski
Updated 11-16-2016 at 05:02 PM by Michael Uplawski (typos, Kraut2English)

Paradigms exist to be broken
or:
How to create a Dynamic bookmark-tree with Apache-FOP

Introduction
This page will eventually explain how you can dynamically generate a bookmark-tree in the PDF-documents by use of the Apache-FOP xsl/fo processor.

But before I show you the mere technicalities, you need to realize what's special in this procedure and what it means to break a paradigm. In fact, the alternative titles on this page should appeal to
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The Epoch of the Lotus-eaters.

Posted 10-08-2016 at 07:59 AM by Michael Uplawski
Updated 10-18-2016 at 12:21 AM by Michael Uplawski (Lotus.., not Lutus. Sorry Paul.)

Epoch - an instant in time.
Lotus - (Here: ) a mystic tree, “bearing a fruit that caused a pleasant drowsiness”.
Lotus 1-2-3 - a myst... A spreadsheet program.

I make this short. There are several ways to avoid the 30 december 1899 to appear in spreadsheet programs (i.e. applications which resemble M$-Excel and even act a lot like it: Gnumeric, LibreOffice Calc, SoftMaker PlanMaker, others). Here is a list that may be incomplete, all the same:
  • Write a different date
  • do
...
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I'm an animal

Posted 08-04-2016 at 02:48 PM by Michael Uplawski
Updated 03-23-2020 at 04:54 PM by Michael Uplawski (Silky Hayauchi, 6m30 (21').)


These machines make me aggressive. I am the most dangerous when operating my chainsaws, not because of the ugly and awfully destructive tool, but because of how it alters my state of mind.

When my smaller chainsaw for one-hand operation once began to bounce on a piece of wood, than cut through my gloves and scratched my fingernail, the pain came from the blow,...
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What is progress

Posted 03-08-2016 at 04:16 PM by Michael Uplawski
Updated 01-29-2022 at 06:33 AM by Michael Uplawski (origin exchanged against reason)

This can be about the Internet or just about Information technology in general. I will get back to that, later.

Agriculture suffers in the french region of Brittany.
While there is a lack of terrain, the hog houses burst with too many animals, the water is polluted with a diversity of herbicides, pesticides and the remains of chemical fertilizers.., -all the same-, farmers are forced to intensify their already intensive production and the reason for their suffering is given...
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