Friday, March 19, 2010

YASnippet LaTeX bundle GitHub Project

A long time ago I wrote about a LaTeX YASnippet bundle that I was building - but I never really got around to publishing it in a way so that anybody except me could get at them. I did create a Google Sites homepage for it, but that's a terrible way to share source code :-)

I have therefore just created a GitHub project called yasnippets-latex. Now my snippets are freely available - released under the GPL of course. So grab them, play with them, branch the project, create your own snippets, improve my snippets, etc.

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Playing around with MacJournal

I have recently bought the MacHeist nanoBundle2 which included a license for MacJournal - yet another journaling software for Mac. I already have Evernote, which seems to be far better than MacJournal for journalling, but MacJournal has some blogging features that I may be interested in. So I guess I’ll give it a try. This entry is written in MacJournal b.t.w. ;-)

This image was just copied into the editor window - and then resized a bit to try that out as well. It’s a photo I took during my recent vacation in Sweden b.t.w.


Now lets try some pre-formatted text (I need that for displaying code examples). I did this by changing the font in MacJournal to Courier 12pt - I would have liked to edit HTML tags instead...:

def compare_us(x, y):
return true if x == y else false

And then some regular text again...

Edit: Well, that did not work at all! I guess MacJournal is not for me then :-) My initial experiences with the software have not been very good. The first time I added a blog the application crashed, and I had to try five times before the auto update function actually worked. When adding a blog entry it did not append any of the tags I chose, the editor did not allow me to edit the HTML source etc. Conclusion: it is a crappy blog editor.