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May 2

Text documents: from PDF to vector images

Subject of this article Recently I needed to convert some documents from PDF format, containing text generated by LaTeX in GNU/Linux operating systems, into vector images. While avoiding conversion from online services, I basically found three interesting solutions: two in command-line mode ( pdf2svg and pdftocairo) and one, very famous, in graphical mode (…

Pdf

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Text documents: from PDF to vector images

Apr 8

LaTeX, three packages for one document

LaTeX, three packages for one document The standard version of LaTeX has a “state of the art” typographic quality, suitable for any type of document. For those who want to try different typographical solutions it is, however, possible to use packages that modify the basic settings. The result may be more or less preferable to the…

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Feb 26

Vim: copy text directly to the operating system clipboard

Cut and copy in Vim: introduction As an introduction to the topic regarding the Cut, Copy and Paste functions in Vim you can read a previous article of mine. The subject of the current article is, instead, a Vim functionality I discovered while reading this page and which is closely related to the previous topic. Vim…

Vim

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Vim: copy text directly to the operating system clipboard

Feb 9

Using Emacs to write scores in LilyPond

About LilyPond LilyPond is a language for producing elegant musical scores, structurally similar to LaTeX with which it can integrate to generate documents containing text and music (for the integration between LilyPond and LaTeX you can read to this article of mine.) Also in LilyPond, as in LaTeX, you can write the…

Emacs

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Jan 28

Using Vim to write scores in LilyPond

Vim

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Jan 15

Variabili in documenti LaTeX esportati da Emacs Org Mode

La solita introduzione su Emacs, Org Mode e LaTeX Questa è la solita introduzione su Emacs, Org Mode e LaTeX: se sapete già tutto potete saltarla. Org Mode sotto GNU Emacs è un potente strumento per organizzare idee. Una funzionalità eccellente di tale strumento è la possibilità di esportare i documenti direttamente da Org Mode verso LaTeX, l’eccellenza assoluta…

Emacs

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Jan 15

Variables in LaTeX documents exported from Emacs Org Mode

The usual introduction to Emacs, Org Mode and LaTeX This is the usual introduction to Emacs, Org Mode and LaTeX: if you already know everything you can skip it. Org Mode under GNU Emacs is a very powerful tool for organizing ideas. An excellent features of this tool is its ability to directly export documents from Org Mode to…

Orgmode

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Dec 30, 2021

LilyPond, ties and voices (advanced)

The object of this article The object of the article is the same as my this previous article but now I have composed, using the LilyPond language, a short score for piano with a little bit more complex voices and ties combinations. I have also created a colour image highlighting the points of interest. You…

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Dec 1, 2021

LilyPond, ties and voices

LilyPond: ties and voices In the default LilyPond configuration, it is not possible to tie a note in a single-voice with the same note but belonging to a contextual multi-voices environment. I recently had to resolve an author’s passage involving just such a problem and asked for help to the amazing LilyPond community. So…

Lilypond

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Oct 23, 2021

LilyPond: anacrusis, tuplets, multiple voices

A very short introduction LilyPond is an incredible and powerful language for writing music scores. Every musician should learn it. But writing code is more suitable for programmers than for musicians and many attempts have to be made to write complete scores. In this post I show you some coding snippets regarding anacrusis, tuplets…

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LilyPond: anacrusis, tuplets, multiple voices