Stuart Prescott

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  • symbols from bbding.sty get munged by plastex

    The bbding.sty package provides access to a large number of symbols. The crux of the style is: \fontencoding{U}\fontfamily{ding}\selectfont\symbol{#1} which provides a particular character. The attached .tex file has two such dings in it (a tick and a cross) -- latex renders this to a dvi file with these characters in it, whereas plastex renders them as: Uding...

    2009-11-10 01:05:59 UTC in plasTeX

  • Comment: os.popen4 is deprecated

    While fixing the pyx library is the obvious long-term solution, those who are annoyed by this warning and just want to suppress it can add the following lines either to their own python script or to the pyx/text.py file that is part of pyx. import warnings warnings.filterwarnings("ignore", r".*popen.*", DeprecationWarning, "pyx\.text")

    2009-09-29 00:41:07 UTC in PyX

  • Followup: RE: Changing menu headings

    There's a little bit of old code that's not used any more in the 1.0.x menu.php file that looks like it sets up the menu. The code is actually commented out so it does nothing. Sorry for that! Have a look instead at inc/actions/actions.php where you will find a _populate() function that instead defines all the menu entries. If you think that your alternate names are useful to others...

    2009-06-11 22:11:57 UTC in Bumblebee Instrument Management System

  • Followup: RE: Reporting error

    If you want to use PDF export, you need to install the FPDF PDF library http://bumblebeeman.sourceforge.net/documentation/install It's very simple to install from the archive provided by the FPDF project, or if you are running Debian linux, you could just "aptitude install php-fpdf". With the include_path shown in your error message, unzipping the FPDF download into...

    2009-06-11 16:08:00 UTC in Bumblebee Instrument Management System

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