My Dreams
I have two dreams — one is the sustainable community and the other is an autobiographical manual of TeX programming. Ever since I got a job in the federal shipping ministry at Delhi in 1973, I have been aggressively campaigning for the formation of a commune (similar to a Kibbutz in Israel) among my friends, [...]
Ten Years in River Valley
On July 17, 2010, we had a small function in the afternoon to honour twenty six of our staff members who have put in more than ten years of service in this company. They were presented with mementos, granted extra increments to their salaries and several staff members felicitated them. The occasion was graced by [...]
Plans for a Sustainable Community
The core objective The most important aim of our sustainable community is to recreate the human support network, the great advantage of our old joint family system which faded away with the advent of nuclear family. We want to bring it back to suit modern day living where freedom and execution of one’s freewill assume [...]
How to fill the rest of the page with horizontal rules?
This was a posting in the texhax mailing list of TeX Users Group. Among all, Phil Taylor s solution seemed to be the best. I have extended to fill arbitrary vertical remaining space in a page in the following manner: \newdimen\spaceleft \def\pagespace{% \ifdim\pagetotal=0pt \spaceleft=\vsize \else \spaceleft=\pagegoal \advance\spaceleft by-\pagetotal \fi} \def\fillWithLines{\null{}\pagespace\vbox to \spaceleft {\xleaders \vbox to [...]
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
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