Images for documentation examples
ConTeXt users tend to use the famous Dutch cow as a place holder image for documentation examples. At times, it …
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Adding color to tables
Texblog had an interesting post on creating tables with alternating colors. See the pdf for the final output. I thought …
Fill in the blanks in ConTeXt
While preparing an exam, I needed to create empty lines for students to write their answers. How to typeset that …
Would a table by any other name be as useful
Karl Berry recently blogged about creating the following in TeX: A 6×6 grid of pictures, with a big picture of …
Don’t complicate your code
A friend sent me a link to a blog post that discusses solutions to the Josephus problem in Perl, Ruby, …
Load balancing, IEEE style
I am shocked at IEEE’s solution to manage the load on their servers. After I pay $200 per year for …
Using ConTeXt to convert markdown to PDF
I am using markdown to write the course notes for a lecture that I am teaching this semester. The notes …
Maintaining ConTeXt Minimals on Arch Linux
On Linux, and to a slightly lesser extent on Windows and Mac, TeX Live is the de-facto TeX distribution. However, …
Introducing the visual counter module
A typical document usually contains many contains many counters: page numbers, section numbers, enumerations, theorems, and so on. Displaying all these numbers gets boring quickly. Do you want to spice up the document a bit? Enter the visual counter module.
Who’s your daddy?
For a new module (see github) I needed to place a Metapost graphic so that it aligns with the baseline …
