Monthly Archives: May 2011

The Adobe Caslon font

Posted on 2011-05-29 by

One of the fonts I recently discovered and started enjoying a lot is Adobe Caslon. Here’s a small sample of what it looks at 600 dpi, rendered from XeLaTeX. The text sample is from “Advice to Little Girls”, a humorous … Continue reading →

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Οι Μικρές Λεπτομέρειες

Posted on 2011-05-22 by

Χτες ανακάλυψα ότι το modem μου χρειάζεται κι ένα ακόμα μικρό adapter για να παίξει σωστά. Το πιο κοντινό μέρος που είναι ανοιχτό Σάββατο απόγευμα είναι το Fust στον κεντρικό σταθμό. Πάω εκεί, λοιπόν, κι ο υπάλληλος μου λέει ότι … Continue reading →

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Concatenating Video Files with MPlayer

Posted on 2011-05-20 by

I found out how to concatenate the parts of a video to a single file with MPlayer. It’s relatively easy, so this is just a mini-post to save it for posterity: $ cat video_part1.avi video_part2.avi … > temp.avi $ mencoder … Continue reading →

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