Tadek's Blog » Uncategorized http://tadek.pietraszek.org/blog Some random notes about computers, security, cool links and others. Fri, 12 Dec 2008 22:49:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Avoiding widows/orphans in Latex http://tadek.pietraszek.org/blog/2006/12/13/avoiding-widoworphas-in-latex/ http://tadek.pietraszek.org/blog/2006/12/13/avoiding-widoworphas-in-latex/#comments Wed, 13 Dec 2006 00:02:57 +0000 tadekp http://tadek.pietraszek.org/blog/2006/12/13/avoiding-widoworphas-in-latex/ http://www.economics.utoronto.ca/osborne/latex/PMAKEUP.HTM – a nice tutorial how to make the camera-ready version of your latex document even more beautiful by removing Overfull \hboxes and avoiding widows and orhpans.

What worked really well for me was:

\def\longbookpage{\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}}
\def\shortbookpage{\enlargethispage{-\baselineskip}}
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I found a really nice electronic store in Zurich – Pusterla Elektronik to help you.

]]> http://tadek.pietraszek.org/blog/2006/08/22/pusterla-elektronik/feed/ 1 Calatrava lectures @ MIT http://tadek.pietraszek.org/blog/2006/03/26/calatrava-lectures-mit/ http://tadek.pietraszek.org/blog/2006/03/26/calatrava-lectures-mit/#comments Sun, 26 Mar 2006 10:44:04 +0000 tadekp http://tadek.pietraszek.org/blog/2006/03/26/calatrava-lectures-mit/ Calatrava lectures @ MIT – transcripts and a lot of multimedia content. A must see if you’re interested in Calatrava’s works.

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]]> http://tadek.pietraszek.org/blog/2006/03/15/exploring-activerecord/feed/ 0 XMaps library for GoogleMaps http://tadek.pietraszek.org/blog/2006/03/15/xmaps-library-for-googlemaps/ http://tadek.pietraszek.org/blog/2006/03/15/xmaps-library-for-googlemaps/#comments Wed, 15 Mar 2006 09:44:41 +0000 tadekp http://tadek.pietraszek.org/blog/2006/03/15/xmaps-library-for-googlemaps/ XMaps library is a great library enhancing GoogleMaps with custom on-the-fly made icons, polylines and a lot of cool stuff. Neat, but has some rendering problems with Firefox (and also the development seems to have stalled).

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