http://lateral.netmanagers.com.ar/ I write free software. I have an opinion on almost everything. I write quickly. A weblog was inevitable. All contents of this site written by me are free. Copy, modify, whatever, just put my name in it, and if you change the contents, clearly say so in the same page. Please provide a link back to the original. All images that are not my own should be available under a Creative Commons license. If that's not the case, please report and I will fix it. en Copyright 2000-2008 Roberto Alsina Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:54:15 +0000 Bartleblog 0.0 ralsina@kde.org ralsina@kde.org If you read this blog on the website (and you do, because my feed is garbage ;-) you may have noticed a goodreads.com widget on the right.... http://lateral.netmanagers.com.ar/weblog/2008/10/09.html#BB762 Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:54:15 +0000 I have been thinking about using rst2pdf to create presentations. I finished exposing PDF transitions today, and that part works nicely.... http://lateral.netmanagers.com.ar/weblog/2008/10/09.html#BB763 Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:54:15 +0000 First a huge announcement: I will not release anything tomorrow. For the first time in 6 weeks, no friday release from me!... http://lateral.netmanagers.com.ar/weblog/2008/10/02.html#BB761 Thu, 02 Oct 2008 11:02:23 +0000 I spent a few hours today round Code Golf and here's a neat thing I did.I think this is python's shortest possible factorial:... http://lateral.netmanagers.com.ar/weblog/2008/10/01.html#BB760 Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:57:04 +0000 Well, what the title says. Get it at the usual places . No, it doesn't require actual LaTeX. Just Matplotlib.... http://lateral.netmanagers.com.ar/weblog/2008/09/26.html#BB759 Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:45:43 +0000 If I manage to make it work well: Math!... http://lateral.netmanagers.com.ar/weblog/2008/09/24.html#BB758 Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:13:54 +0000 I announced it on all other places except here: rst2pdf 0.8.1 is out. What's new?... http://lateral.netmanagers.com.ar/weblog/2008/09/21.html#BB757 Sun, 21 Sep 2008 22:07:42 +0000 Of course I could be misunderstanding this, but it seems they included uRSSus 0.2.10 in a DVD for some reason :-)... http://lateral.netmanagers.com.ar/weblog/2008/09/16.html#BB756 Tue, 16 Sep 2008 20:58:48 +0000 So, I failed to release uqbar this week. However, I am releasing rst2pdf 0.8, with SVG support! Get its vectorial goodness from http://rst2pdf.googlecode.com... http://lateral.netmanagers.com.ar/weblog/2008/09/12.html#BB755 Fri, 12 Sep 2008 14:37:33 +0000 I just committed into trunk of rst2pdf a nicely working SVGImage flowable for reportlabs.... http://lateral.netmanagers.com.ar/weblog/2008/09/11.html#BB754 Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:24:00 +0000 One of the big limitations of reportlab is that it has no support for vector-based images. You can't insert SVG, EPS or any other vector-based format in your documents.... http://lateral.netmanagers.com.ar/weblog/2008/09/10.html#BB753 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:32:58 +0000 I had one too many problems with kmail from KDE4 in my eee with Kubuntu, and sylpheed-claws is just unusable in a small screen (the huge widgets! the non-hidable things all over the interface!) I decided to get old fashioned and try a console mail reader.... http://lateral.netmanagers.com.ar/weblog/2008/09/09.html#BB752 Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:34:55 +0000 On my ongoing something-released-every-friday rampage, this friday I will release a working version of Uqbar, a Gutenberg project e-texts interface.... http://lateral.netmanagers.com.ar/weblog/2008/09/07.html#BB751 Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:13:08 +0000 Right on schedule, everything I promised, plus much simpler/smarter font embedding, and maybe a bag of chips. More at http://rst2pdf.googlecode.com .... http://lateral.netmanagers.com.ar/weblog/2008/09/05.html#BB750 Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:38:43 +0000 Keeping with my new time-based release schedule, tomorrow is again rst2pdf release day! What will be new in 0.7? Several things!... http://lateral.netmanagers.com.ar/weblog/2008/09/04.html#BB749 Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:08:43 +0000 Yes, it is getting better. Now there are left-floating or right-floating elements, and you can float pretty much anything (except literal blocks, that's a problem) by using the class directive. Here's how it looks:... http://lateral.netmanagers.com.ar/weblog/2008/09/02.html#BB748 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 23:49:01 +0000 Today I started a branch called SmartFrames. The main goal is to achieve a better text flow in the document (for example, for sidebars), and it is starting to get there, slowly.... http://lateral.netmanagers.com.ar/weblog/2008/08/31.html#BB747 Sun, 31 Aug 2008 23:01:50 +0000 Many new features. Custom page layouts! Multiple frames per page! Multiple layouts per document! Cascading stylesheets! Not very buggy! Get it at http://rst2pdf.googlecode.com or via PyPI.... http://lateral.netmanagers.com.ar/weblog/2008/08/30.html#BB746 Sat, 30 Aug 2008 03:00:34 +0000 Besides everything I mentioned yesterday, today I implemented two rather important features: cascading stylesheets, and user-defined page layouts. Here is a screenshot:... http://lateral.netmanagers.com.ar/weblog/2008/08/30.html#BB745 Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:10:33 +0000 How good? Let me tell you...... http://lateral.netmanagers.com.ar/weblog/2008/08/28.html#BB744 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:26:36 +0000