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Programming and creativity I need a category for a blog-entry. It is about programming, but as I am beginning to fall foul of technology, have to append something useful to the title.

Found the old replace command

Posted 08-18-2018 at 03:48 AM by Michael Uplawski
Updated 11-13-2021 at 12:45 AM by Michael Uplawski (Category and missing sarcasm added. Orthography.)

... funny.

Discover the Norman religion:

Code:

me@this_PC:~$ echo "We can't do nothing, face it!" | replace "can't" "do not want to"
We do not want to do nothing, face it!

But the command was not available anymore. Dummy me. I have written it myself a while ago!

The script:

Code:

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# encoding UTF-8
#
# This utility reads text from STDIN (via a pipe) and replaces

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Slide show and photo management

Posted 04-17-2018 at 04:01 AM by Michael Uplawski
Updated 01-29-2022 at 05:38 AM by Michael Uplawski

Tags c++, development, qt framework, slide show

... perhaps a little less than that.

UpsSlideshow

January 2022: runs with Qt 6.2.x

So here it is:

Download the source as tar.xz Archive (306K).

Read the html-version of the current man-page.

The man-page is also included in the source-tarball.

I should maybe rename and refactor the project to make it “Oops-Slideshow”, instead. „Ups” (German for Oops) had been my nick-name in my youth, more because my family-name was...

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Generate a glossary from HTML

Posted 09-09-2017 at 06:34 AM by Michael Uplawski
Updated 08-11-2023 at 02:28 AM by Michael Uplawski (list format, formating and outlook)

Tags generate glossary, html, ruby, utility, web

HTML2INDEX

Install as a ruby-gem:

Code:

:~$ gem install html2index

Read the RDOC : http://www.rubydoc.info/gems/html2index/1.1

This program creates an index or glossary of marked expressions in a HTML-file

The current man-page is here:

--------------------------

HTML2Index

Creates an index or glossary of marked expressions in an HTML-file
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SIMPLE! Write man pages / Docutils and tweaks

Posted 08-01-2017 at 02:59 AM by Michael Uplawski
Updated 08-05-2017 at 12:31 AM by Michael Uplawski (... bunch of bad wording. Categories missing)

Tags docutils, man, restructured text, ruby

Write a bunch of man pages with Docutils and a few simple tweaks
Subtitle: Do it now!

You can write man-pages in many ways, notably by just coding it with “Troff” or “Groff”. Anyway, the resulting man-page can always be opened in an ordinary text-editor or pager and may look a lot like my own man-page for Timequiz:
Code:
user@machine:/tmp$ more ./test.man 
.
.TH TIMEQUIZ  "" "" ""
.SH NAME
TIMEQUIZ \- play a history

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Paradigms exist to be broken

Posted 10-29-2016 at 12:39 AM by Michael Uplawski
Updated 11-16-2016 at 05:02 PM by Michael Uplawski (typos, Kraut2English)

Tags html, paradigm, pdf, programming, xslt

Paradigms exist to be broken
or:
How to create a Dynamic bookmark-tree with Apache-FOP

Introduction

This page will eventually explain how you can dynamically generate a bookmark-tree in the PDF-documents by use of the Apache-FOP xsl/fo processor.

But before I show you the mere technicalities, you need to realize what's special in this procedure and what it means to break a paradigm. In fact, the alternative titles on this page should appeal to

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