Kristou Says

To keep all my data synchronized between my machines and also have version of them in the same time without having an public svn repository. I use my ftp account as a repository for my local svn server. So my svn server is just an engine which store data on FTP mounted folder. I covered the method to install SVN server in other post and today I want to introduce the FTP mounting as a folder. The used tool is curlftpfs.

1. If you don’t already have curlftpfs installed, install it with
sudo apt-get install curlftpfs
2. Replacing the appropriate settings, mount the share with
sudo curlftpfs -o umask=0777,uid=1000,gid=1000,allow_other ftp://username:password@your.ftpserver.com /media/ftpfolder
Make sure that the location to mount to is already created and readable and writable by all users.
3. To make this permanent, add it to the end of /etc/init.d/rc.local to be able to access the share after reboot. Other option is to add it to ~/.bashrc. It is your choice

It is a bit slow but it works!

To let Gnuplot generate an eps file in order to include it in Latex:

set term post enh # enhanced PostScript, essentially PostScript with bounding boxes
set out ‘gplt.eps’
set xlabel ‘{/Symbol q_1}
set ylabel ‘sin^2({/Symbol q_1})’
plot sin(x)**2

To convert between EUC and UTG-8 encoding I used NKF.

sudo apt-get install nkf

The usage :

EUC–>UTF-8

nkf -d -w80 euc.text > utf.tex

UTF-8–>EUC

nkf -d -e utf.text > euc.tex

To convert all the content of a folder:

$ mkdir utf8

$ for i in `ls -I utf8`; do echo $i; nkf -d -w80 $i > utf8/$i ; done

When I installed the Japanese latex environment for the first time I got this error:
could NOT open config file "fontmapsx"

I search in the Internet for the solution and I found this:
sudo apt-get install okumura-clsfiles vfdata-morisawa5
sudo jisftconfig add
sudo update-texmf

and it helped.

To group pdf file in one: pdftk 1.pdf 2.pdf cat output all.pdf

To delete a password from the file: pdftk in.pdf input_pw hogehoge output out.pdf

To pu a password to the output file: pdftk in.pdf output out.pdf user_pw hogehoge

To use a background.pdf to create a pdf file:
pdftk in.pdf input_pw hogehoge background background.pdf output out.pdf