In an effort to help people keep kids occupied over the CoronaVirus (Covid-19) crisis. I am helping my local library with running a virtual code club. We are now on week to of the virtual code club.
Please contact Paignton Library for more information. Please use social media or e-mail as the library is closed.
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Detexify is a great resource if you want to find a common or perhaps an unusual symbol to insert in to your $\LaTeX$ document.
When you go to the Detexify website [1] you are presented with a box to draw your symbol in. For this context I have the symbols tab selected.
So in the example below I have attempted to draw pi $\pi$. You can see that the website has attempted to find symbols resemble the one I have drawn.
It works for all sorts of things as per the two examples below. You don't need to be that good at drawing the symbol as some can be pretty complex.
This also works the other way. You can enter the name and the website will try and find the corresponding symbol as per below. In this case I am using the classify tab.
In both cases the website will tell you which package you can find this symbol in, and which $LaTeX$ command to use. You can find the package on CTAN [5] for more information on how to use that package. Or you can find the documentation on TeXLive [6].
Hopefully this article is helpful and will help. It is also designed to complement the tutorials at Learn LaTeX [3] which is a new resource.
This article can also complement the upcoming 2020 release of TeX Live [6).
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RescaTux 0.73
The latest release of the RescaTux rescue distribution / tools was on 2020-04-02.
More information can be found on the RescaTux Website. Please consider using BitTorrent to download. This takes pressure of the http server.
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Biohackathon Starts today
5th April sees the start of the BioHackathon. Please see my previous post on this for details.
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tmate
tmate — terminal multiplexer with instant terminal sharing
tmate is a useful Linux application. Lets say you need some help with fixing a problem. You need to be able to share your terminal with a trusted party, so that person, can help you within a shared terminal.
You can load tmate by :
opening a terminal
typing tmate at the terminal window
You are presented with a screen, similar to that shown below. At the bottom, you get a unique a link, which you can give to the other party.
I have added some *** so I am not putting my own system security at risk, but it is essentially a long lost of characters.
This only shows for a while however. You need to copy / paste this link in to an e-mail / irc or whatever your using to send it to a colleague who is going to help, so DO NOT post to a public forum.
You can see what that person is typing, and if any passwords need entering you can do that yourself and the other person can carry on with helping you.
At times this can be a really useful tool to help solve issues.
You are strongly advised to read the man page for this before use.
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Scratch Project 6
So further to my previous post I have completed another two module1 activity.
Firstly Boatrace
Secondly, Chatbot, well sort of, what I have done is to add a introscreen so this displays first.
I have created a new studio for these completed projects.
To take part please follow @paigntonlibrary on twitter
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Another Covid-19 Hackathon
Following on from the Biohackathon between 5th and 11th April. There is another one starting after 10th April.
You need to submit ideas by April 10th
Tech is coming together to provide end-to-end infrastructure for apps addressing the #COVID19 pandemic. Submit ideas by April 10 for #covidhack, at https://covidhack.org
#OpenScience powered by the Open Sorcerers at @gitlab
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Scratch Project 5
So further to my previous post I have completed another module 1 activity.
I have created a new studio for these completed projects.
To take part please follow @paigntonlibrary on twitter
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Overleaf Webinar
Teaching with Overleaf webinar –
Thurs 2 April 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM BST-
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