I have always been in favour of efficiency and the avoidance of waste. As an engineer much of my career has been devoted to the development of better systems for using energy. I am currently a member of the Sustainability Group at the Dublin Institute of Technology. I am not a member of the Green Party or Greenpeace or any such organisation, although I respect their positions and am glad that they exist. By the way, the views expressed here are entirely my own; in fact they are not so much views as reflections, because I am not secure or at ease with them, and they are not static.
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Monthly Archives: November 2007
Creating Ablbeebl Fonts for LaTeX
The procedure followed for creating the Ablbeebl font for use in LaTeX (Ubunto distribution of Linux, TeX Live) is given below.
- Create .pfb and .afm files for each character set of Ablbeebl using FontForge. Place these in a working folder fab_fonts on the Desktop.
Ablbeebl Project on Linux
I have been putting a lot of work and time into setting up the Latex side of the Ablbeebl project on Linux. All along, of course, I have been using FontForge to develop the actual characters of the font.
I have set up TeX Live under Ubuntu Linux. The basic installation of TeX and LaTeX is working well. I am using Texmaker as the GUI application for LaTeX.
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Bash and TeX Live in Linux
I found a good introduction to using the console (or terminal) in Ubuntu Linux at the following link:
http://linux.org.mt/article/terminal .
I have installed TeX Live using the Synaptic Package Manager. Information about TeX Live is available at:
http://www.tug.org/texlive/
Classic 1908 Book on Groups of Finite Order by Harold Hilton
This book is available on-line from the Cornell University Library Digital Collections:
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