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  • 02.18.11
    Moving between encodings with emacs automated, scripts, shell | pfortuny | (0)
    I live in Spain. I work at Academia. This is a problem. My School's computers are plagued with Windows (XP!), my pupils most certainly use Windows (I bet it is 7) and I use (obviously) an MBPro with Snow Leopard. Even more, my School's servers are Linux. This gives rise to latin-1, UTF-8 collisions. While writing some text-only documents for use with MATLAB (another problem, by the way) I realized I was going to need to convert them from my Mac's UTF-8 to Windows latin-1 every time I edited them. Time for a makefile. I am not commenting this though, only the ...
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  • 04.27.10
    Setting variables in emacs at file header shell | pfortuny | (0)
    When editing LaTeX files, I usually call the master file of a project 00father.ltx for historical reasons. Moreover, the following line is part of my .emacs: (setq-default TeX-master "00father.ltx") because most of the time I am editing multifile projects. However, from time to time I need to write a single-file document and in this case, naming it 00father.ltx is not that useful, and I do not want to have to set the master-file variable each time I load the file. There is an easy way to get this done. Just include a line at the top of the file -as a comment in the ...
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