Welcome to the collection of articles by Franco Pasut also published in other online resources.
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LibreOffice Writer and non-sequential page numbering.
- 1. Subject of the article.
- 2. How to insert a page number other than 1.
- 3. Change the page number when inserting a page break.
- 4. The common denominator.
1. Subject of the article.
LibreOffice is an open source, multi-platform suite for document processing.
Great for writing, calculating, drawing, and much more.
The reference page in English can be found at this page.
Writer is the module of the Suite dedicated to word processing.
MS Windows: xcopy and robocopy with mentions of batch procedures and rsync.
- Copy and Paste: the universal method.
- A short introduction to the Command Line in MS Windows.
- Two integrated command-line solutions: xcopy and robocopy.
- Basic scheme and some options, among many, of the robocopy command.
- Robocopy and batch procedures.
- Robocopy and Rsync.
- FreeFileSync
Copy and Paste: the universal method.
To transfer files from one folder to another folder we usually use “copy and paste.”
Study on an example of integration between Python and LaTeX
- Subject of this article.
- Description of the steps without using Python.
- Python file content.
- Program analysis.
- Source in LaTeX generated by Python.
- To try the program.
Subject of this article.
I am not a computer scientist but I have been using LaTeX for over ten years to write court documents. Only a few months ago I started to follow some tutorials on programming with Python.
LaTeX with Sublime Text and LaTeXools.
An article illustrating the use of Sublime Text for creating complex documents, with a focus on legal briefs written in LaTeX.
- 1. This article is about LaTeX and Sublime Text.
- 2. The bad news: LaTeXTools is out of date.
- 3. Placeholders and Variables.
- 4. Multiple cursors.
- 5. Paste lists of documents copied from folders.
- 6. Create and use bookmarks.
- 7. Persistence of open documents.
- 8. Snippet for the creation of Sections.
- 9. A useful little “script”.
- 10. Compilation, viewers and other commands.
- 11. Conclusion.
1. This article is about LaTeX and Sublime Text.
The outstanding typographic quality of LaTeX cannot be doubted.
Vim, Sublime Text, Visual Studio Code and the multiple cursors.
Article on comparative handling of multiple cursors in Sublime Text, Visual Studio Code and Vim.
- 1. Multiple cursors? Multi-cursors? What are we talking about?
- 2. Who “invented” multiple cursors?
- 3. Multiple cursors in Sublime Text 3 and 4.
- 4. Multiple cursors in Visual Studio Code.
- 5. Comparison of Sublime Text and Visual Studio Code.
- 6. Vim and the built-in multiple editing functions.
- 7. Effective multi cursors also on Vim.
1. Multiple cursors? Multi-cursors? What are we talking about?
What are multiple cursors?
Vim and snippet lists for UltiSnips and other plugins.
Article about the different collections of snippets designed for different plugins of Vim and the possibility of converting from type of format to another.
- 1. Preamble
- 2. Steps for using snippets
- 3. Local custom snippets.
- 4. Honza: Why two different collections of snippets?
- 5. Overview of both collections.
- 6. Is it possible to “mix” the snippets of the two collections?
1. Preamble
In the article “Vim, UltiSnips and Honza vim-snippets: difference and management of the snippets and UltiSnips folders” I have already covered the topic of snippets and UltiSnips for Vim: