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October 26, 2025

Four text commands in GNU/Linux, MS Windows, and, with a bit of nostalgia, MS-DOS.

1. Does it still make sense to perform operations via the command line?
2. How do you open a command terminal?
3. The “cd” command.
4. The “ls” and “dir” commands.
5. The “cp” command.
6. The “rm” command.
7. In conclusion.

1. Does it still make sense to perform operations via the command line?

Talking about the command line in today’s operating systems might seem a bit vintage, as if the topic were a historical remnant of the first personal computers of the 1980s.

August 2, 2025

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.

May 23, 2025

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.”

December 6, 2024

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.

September 13, 2024

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 The bad news: LaTeXTools is out of date.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.

July 8, 2024

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?

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