Find your screen’s name in the Blocks list and then click the mouse over the screen name. You should see the Initialize event handler appear in a pop up list – drag that initialize block over to the Blocks editing window. Let us now take a look at writing a list – or list of lists to the text file.
Explore the world of Mac. Check out MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, iMac, Mac mini, and more. Visit the Apple site to learn, buy, and get support. You must use 'extraFiles' in your package.json extraFiles would copy the files to the app conent directory on Mac OS, on Windows and Linux it will copy it to the app root directory. If you use extraResources it will copy the files to Contents/Resources on Mac and on Windows it will copy the files to resources Folder. System Requirements: Apple computer running Mac OS X 10.4 or 10.5 (both tested) or 10.3 (not tested, but I'm pretty sure it works as well). Problem: You are using your laptop (or another computer) away from home and would like to access your files at home. Download Free brush fonts at UrbanFonts.com Our site carries over 30,000 PC fonts and Mac fonts. You can customize your experience with live font previews. All fonts are categorized and can be saved for quick reference and comparison.
L Frank Turovich, man, myth, curmudgeon
L FrankTurovich(1956-) was born and raised in Flint, Michigan where he became a rabid reader of science fiction, fantasy, mysteries, comics and everything printed and readable. After graduation he spent time in the US Marine Corps as a “grunt” and later earned degrees in Technical Training and Management while serving as a radar instructor in 29 Palms, CA.
Along the way Frank bought his first Macintosh in April 1984 and learned to program. He combined his fascination with teaching and programming into writing articles for Nibble Mac and Inside BASIC magazines, and self-published two books on the subject.
Leaving the Marines he worked as a technical writer, trainer, and manager for several high-tech companies including Metrowerks, Motorola, Freescale Semiconductor, and Nokia, where he mainly documented software development tools and other related technologies.
He currently resides in Gladwin, Michigan doing his best Travis McGee impression in a home filled with books, computers, and two cats (Java and Larry) where he pursues that elusive fiction writing career he’s always dreamt of.
Equipment (valid 20190530)
The following computer equipment and software are used to create my fiction:
- Apple iMac, 4.2 GHz Intel Core i7, 16 GB RAM, 27″ Display
- Apple 16″ MacBook Pro 2019, 2.6 GHz Intel Core i7, 16 GB RAM
- HP LaserJet Pro M1212nf MFP Printer
- Mac OS X v10.15.x (Catalina)
- Scrivener v3.1.4.x
- BBEdit v13.x.x
- VoodooPad v5.3.x
- Acorn v6.5.x
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How to Typeset Equations in LaTeX
LaTeX is a very powerful tool for typesetting mathematical expressions. However, when looking at a typical document one often finds that mathematical equations that are too long to fit on one line or that consist of several equations in one block are often only poorly typeset in spite of the power of LaTeX.
This short introduction tries to show how a nice typesetting is done easily and efficiently. It includes an introduction to the less known, but very powerful tool 'IEEEeqnarray'.
Download:
- How to Typeset Equations in LaTeX (PDF)(Version 4.6, 29 September 2017)
- You may also download the Complete Package (.tar.gz-file) that also includes the source code of this manual, the IEEEtran-package, the official manual of IEEEtran, and some ideas for the Emacs.
More information about IEEEtran can be found on Michael Shell's website. An easy-to-read and very informative manual about LaTeX is The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX 2ε by Tobias Oetiker.
English Grammar: Infinitive or ing-Form?
English is — in spite of what some people might say — a very difficult language. In particular it is very difficult to find rules that work. Nevertheless, I have tried to attack (or is it 'try attacking'!?!) one of my biggest English difficulties: when to use the infinitive and when the ing-form.. Perhaps this might be useful for you, too! In any case, I would be happy to receive feedback!
Download:
- Infinitive or ing-Form? (PDF)(Version 1.6, 7 May 2012)
mygpg: Secure Password-File Management based on Perl and GPG
The number of passwords that I should be able to remember nowadays is far over 100. So unless I choose them all to be all the same or use some other very insecure tricks, the only way to survive is to keep a file with them written down. However, among all tricks that help with remembering passwords, this is about the most insecure and silly thing to do..!
My solution is to keep a password file, but to have it securely encrypted using one of the best encryption standard there is: the open-source and free program GPG. I use a separate and unpublished private/public key-pair only for that particular file. For more details about GPG, see my How-To of GPG.
So the only problem is how to access and edit the secure password file. I do not want to store the passwords unencrypted on my harddrive at any time, not even temporarily for editing! For that reason I have written a small script mygpg that accesses the file, decrypts it, invokes an emacs, and passes the decrypted information into a buffer of the emacs. At the end the emacs will take care of the encryption and will write the encrypted file back to disk. The unencrypted information is never stored anywhere but solely kept in the memory of the computer during the accessing/editing time.
System Requirements:
- any UNIX-like system like Mac OS X
- perl including perl-package Term::ReadKey and IPC:Run3 (use cpan Term::ReadKey and cpan IPC:Run3 to install)
- gpg (fully set up)
- Emacs
Installation:
- Download mygpg (version 4.4, March 2019) and decompress it.
- Put it anywhere you like, e.g., into ~/bin/, and make sure that the executable bits are set ('chmod a+x ~/bin/mygpg')
- Edit the file 'mygpg' and change the value of the variables '$file' and '$gpgcommand' according to your encrypted file and the correct encryption command.
Usage: For normal use simply call 'mygpg'. The optional argument '-h' will print a short help message and exit. For calling the emacs inside the terminal (e.g., if there is no X11 environment) use the option '-t'. For only reading the file without the possibility to edit, the file can also be displayed using 'less'. To do so, use the option '-l'. To create an empty password file, use the option '-c'.
Writer's Block (tobias Bruch) Mac Os Update
GnuPG: A Mini How-To
This very brief introduction to GPG is already some years old, but it should still be up-to-date (more or less..). I hope it is useful..
GnuPG for daily use: a mini How-To
GnuPG for daily use: a mini How-To
Typesetting Chinese Characters in LaTeX: A very quick manual
Typesetting Chinese in LaTeX used to be quite a headache. I remember spending hours and hours in trying to set my system up. In the meantime, things have simplified considerably (or I have simply learned how to do it properly..). Here are some very brief instructions on how to proceed.
I distinguish two different situations: the case where I want to compose a large document containing a lot of Chinese characters and the case where I only need to incorporate a few Chinese characters (like, e.g., my Chinese name) in a otherwise Western document.
- Large Chinese LaTeX document: Here the way to go is to use XeLaTeX. Every modern LaTeX installation comes with that fully functional, i.e., the setup should be trivial: you only need to include some packages and define the font. Try the following: Here, we have defined the default font of English text to be Times and the the Chinese characters will use BiauKai (this is the default Chinese font on Mac OS X for traditional Chinese). You can use any other font that is installed on your system. Simply check the names of your available fonts using any other typesetting tool like Word or similar.
Instead of the usual latex, the document has now to be compiled using the command xelatex, which will generate a PDF directly.
A couple of comments:- Do not use the package inputenc. The behavior of inputenc is already included in XeLaTeX.
- XeLaTeX will automatically figure out what part of the text is in Chinese and what not. However, sometimes this decision might turn out wrong (for example for punctuation signs). Then you can force the choice using the fontspec-command:
- The real strength of XeLaTeX is that any font available on your system can be used. This is also true for the English font. Try for example:
- Only add a few Chinese characters in you LaTeX document: Here, you can keep using the normal LaTeX and add some more packages. Try the following: This document can now be compiled using the normal latex or pdflatex command.
Various Useful Shell-Scripts
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Installation: To install any of these scripts, download the script, decompress it, and put it anywhere you like, e.g., into ~/bin/. Then make sure that the executable flags are set (chmod a+x script-name).
Usage: Simply type the name of the script into a terminal.
mp3move
The script mp3move (version 4.1, April 2009) is a script that I wrote when I needed to arrange the files on a MP3-CD: the script renames all files in the current directory as follows: firstly a given number of letters is removed from the filename starting at a given position (e.g., removing an old counting), then a new consecutive numbering is added in place of the removed letters. The numbering starts at a given point and has a fixed number of positions.
multicopy
The script multicopy (version 2.3, April 2018) copies all files starting with a certain string to a new file with a new name, preserving the original ending of the filename.
multimove
The script multimove (version 2.2, September 2010) renames all files starting with a certain string, preserving the original ending of the filename.
pdfa4toletter
The script pdfa4toletter (version 1.0, April 2013) converts a pdf-file in a4 format into letter format by cropping, not scaling. For more info, type 'pdfa4toletter' without arguments.
Requirements: This script requires pdfjam to be installed on your system.
Requirements: This script requires pdfjam to be installed on your system.
pdfinsert
The script pdfinsert (version 1.0, January 2013) inserts a pdf-file into another one at a specified page. For more info, type 'pdfinsert' without arguments.
Requirements: This script requires pdfjam to be installed on your system.
Requirements: This script requires pdfjam to be installed on your system.
pdflettertoa4
The script pdflettertoa4 (version 1.0, April 2013) converts a pdf-file in letter format into a4 format by cropping, not scaling. For more info, type 'pdflettertoa4' without arguments.
Requirements: This script requires pdfjam to be installed on your system.
Requirements: This script requires pdfjam to be installed on your system.
pdfnupsmart
The script pdfnupsmart (version 1.1, May 2010) rearranges the pages of a pdf-file: two pages are put onto one page in such a way that the odd pages are on the right-hand side like in an open book. Moreover, to avoid problems with some printers, the file is then rotated to normal portrait style.
Requirements: This script requires pdfjam to be installed on your system.
Requirements: This script requires pdfjam to be installed on your system.
pdfselect
The script pdfselect (version 1.0, May 2010) lets you pick an arbitrary range of pages from a pdf-file, similar to psselect. For more info, type 'pdfselect' without arguments.
Requirements: This script requires pdfjam to be installed on your system.
Requirements: This script requires pdfjam to be installed on your system.
pdfsort(New!)
The script pdfsort (version 1.1, March 2021) assumes that you have scanned a pile of double-sided pages by first scanning all odd pages and then flipping the whole pile and scanning the backside of them (in backwards order). Thus, the obtained pages are in a wrong order. This script now resorts all these pages in the correct order. For more info, type 'pdfsort -h'.
Requirements: This script requires pdfjam to be installed on your system and makes use of pdfselect above.
Requirements: This script requires pdfjam to be installed on your system and makes use of pdfselect above.
smv
Writer's Block (tobias Bruch) Mac Os 8
The script smv (version 1.0, August 2015) is a 'save-move' command: it executes 'mv', but with filenames being changed with an added numeral in case the filename exists already at the destination. For more info, type 'smv' without arguments.
prefixadd
The script prefixadd (version 1.0, October 2010) adds a prefix to all files ending with a particular string.
psnupsmart
The script psnupsmart (version 1.1, May 2010) rearranges the pages of a postscript-file: two pages are put onto one page in such a way that the odd page numbers are on the right hand side like in an open book.
Requirements: This script requires psnup and psselect to be installed on your system.
Requirements: This script requires psnup and psselect to be installed on your system.
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stuffzeros
When exporting photos from iPhoto, the numbering system is not UNIX-like: they are called photo-1.jpg, photo-2.jpg, .., photo-10.jpg, etc. This way the numbering is not in alphabetical order which can cause problems with other programs. The script stuffzeros (version 3.2, June 2009) automatically corrects this. It will add zeros in front of the numbers so that the files afterwards are named photo-01.jpg, photo-02.jpg, .., photo-10.jpg, etc.
suffixadd
The script suffixadd (version 2.1, October 2008) adds a suffix to all files starting with a particular string.
timer: A Simple Stopwatch in the Terminal (version 3.6, June 2018)
Lucien and the demon king: act 1 mac os. I sometimes need to have a simple stopwatch or timer (version 3.6, June 2018) handy, so I wrote this small Perl-script. Maybe someone else might find it useful, too..
Requirements: Your perl-system needs to have the perl-package Term::ReadKey installed (use cpan Term::ReadKey to install)
Requirements: Your perl-system needs to have the perl-package Term::ReadKey installed (use cpan Term::ReadKey to install)
watchdog
The script watchdog (version 1.1, October 2008) regularly checks a file and informs by email if the file has been modified. This is done either once, or continuously until the file is renamed or deleted.
addrbook: Address-Management with Perl and LaTeX
Most available address-management tools have either too many or too few features for me. I have therefore started writing a small (partially LaTeX-based) Perl-script that takes care of my addresses: I keep an ASCII-file with the necessary information (name, address, telephone, email, birthday, remarks). The script then generates (via LaTeX) a printable version that I can carry with me. The advantages are obvious:
- in a common address booklet with hand-written entries space is always too limited in some parts of the alphabet, while in other parts most entries are empty..;
- if I lose my address-book, I just print it out again;
- I don't need any computer, battery or what-so-ever to check addresses, however,
- if I am online, I can search for addresses electronically;
- I have added a lot of small additional features like
- automatic alphabetical ordering
- sub-groups of people (e.g., friends, business relations, emergency numbers, etc.)
- listing of birth dates
- an automatic birthday reminder e-mail
- a web-interface for online search of your addresses! This can be included into your homepage as shown for example here.
- The most recent feature is a calendar reminder system: either birth dates or general calendar entries (from a different or command-K). However, if you don't have the Mac OS X Server version there is no way to make this connection secure, i.e., everything that is transmitted over the Internet is clear-text, including your login and password! Furthermore, you have to open your computer at home to the world which includes a guest-access. While the guest-access is restricted, of course, you still might feel uncomfortable with it, particularly if you are sure that you actually don't need it.Solution: Open a SSH connection to your home computer (the remote computer) and then pipe your standard AFP connection through this SSH tunnel. Unfortunately, the commands to do so are very UNIX-like and cryptic. I have therefore written a small shell-script that will do everything for you. You only need to follow the following steps:
- Start the terminal and type 'afptunnel'
- Provide your password when prompted
- The normal 'Connect to Server..'-dialog appears: log in as usual
- The connection you establish is both secure and compressed, i.e., you even save bandwidth!
- When you have finished, unmount your files by clicking on the eject button or by dragging it to the trash
- Press enter in the terminal to disconnect the SSH tunnel.
Installation:- Download afptunnel (version 2.2, December 2008) and decompress it.
- Put it anywhere you like, e.g., into ~/bin/, and make sure that the executable bits are set ('chmod a+x ~/bin/afptunnel')
- Edit the file 'afptunnel' and change the value of the variable 'TARGET_HOST' to match the IP-address of your home computer
- On your remote computer (at home) open the System Preferences:
- Sharing->activate Personal File Sharing
- Sharing->activate Remote Login
- If you want to disable the guest-access (and any other access that does not use the secure SSH connection), you need to setup your firewall to block Port 548. This way the 'Personal File Sharing' Service is blocked from outside and only available within your computer. Unfortunately, you cannot edit the OS X built-in firewall to do exactly this while Personal File Sharing is active. You need another interface to the firewall. A possible solution is the shareware tool Flying Buttress. A standard setting would be, e.g., about as follows:
- Outgoing: Allow
- Incoming: Deny
- Remote Login (SSH): Allow TCP from Internet (any Port) to MyComputer (Port 22)
Another possibility is to manage the firewall manually as described in Exploring the Mac OS X Firewall.
For Advanced Users: For more options of afptunnel type 'afptunnel -h'.mailtunnel: Sending Mails If You Do Not Have an SMTP Server
System Requirements: Any UNIX-like system like Mac OS X.Problem: You are using your laptop abroad and would like to send some email. Usually you then get into problems because you either- don't know the SMTP server of the net-access you are using,
- there is no SMTP server on the net-access you are using, or
- you don't trust the SMTP server of the net-access you are using.
Solution: Open a SSH connection to your home computer (the remote computer) and then relay your mails via your home computer to your usual SMTP server at home. This way your mails look like being sent from home, your mails are securely sent through the unknown net-access you are using, and your mails are even compressed in case your net-access is slow! You only need to follow the following steps:- Start the terminal and type 'mailtunnel'
- Provide your password when prompted
- Tell your mail-program to use 'localhost' at port 1025 as SMTP server
- When you have finished, quit your mail program and press enter in the terminal to disconnect the SSH tunnel.
Installation:- Download mailtunnel (version 1.3, December 2008) and decompress it.
- Put it anywhere you like, e.g., into ~/bin/, and make sure that the executable bits are set ('chmod a+x ~/bin/mailtunnel')
- Edit the file 'mailtunnel' and change the value of the variable 'TARGET_HOST' to match the IP-address of your home computer and the value of the variable 'SMTP_HOST' to match the IP-address of your usual SMTP server at home
- On your remote computer (at home) open the System Preferences->Sharing->activate Remote Login
For Advanced Users: For more options of mailtunnel type 'mailtunnel -h'.-||- _|_ _|_ / __|__ Stefan M. Moser
[-] --__|__ /__ /__ Senior Scientist, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
_|_ -- --|- _ / / Adjunct Professor, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
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