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Write a bunch of man pages with Docutils and a few simple tweaks
Subtitle: Do it now!
You can write man-pages in many ways, notably by just coding it with “Troff” or “Groff”. Anyway, the resulting man-page can always be opened in an ordinary text-editor or pager and may look a lot like my own man-page for Timequiz:
Code:
user@machine:/tmp$ more ./test.man
.
.TH TIMEQUIZ "" "" ""
.SH NAME
TIMEQUIZ \- play a history
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
The distribution of my very first screen cast in a local distribution network for locally produced, biological foodstuffs is the real cause for the publication of this entry.
I have no use for sound in my screen cast and when I played around with “recordMyDesktop” thought about how I should be able to type instructions in a terminal or text-editor, show manipulations in software and switch between the two, without getting lost, forgetting details or making dumb typos all the time....
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:
Edit 31/12/2023: A new version 1.1.7 of Cremefraiche is available on rubygems.org. It comprises some bug fixes, the license is now wtfpl-2 and more HTML-garbage may be handled to render the PDF readable.
Years ago, I wrote a ruby-program which converts Email to PDF, then ignored it.
Discussions of GTK3 and the pros and cons of the decisions taken by the Gnome- and GTK-developers awakened again my interest in the program, as it comes with an optional GTK3 user-interface.
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