http://stefano.italians.nl Stefano's blog Sun, 04 Apr 2010 16:51:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I wanted to try Skia, the 2D graphic library from Google. The problem is: there's still no mature build script for linux and the samples are not compiled at all. So I patched some sources and wrote a simple build script for Waf, which in the end will build the ... http://stefano.italians.nl/archives/66 This is the sixth part of the tutorial Cover letter with style. You can find the fifth part here. In this part I will show you how to add a barcode in the destination address. It's a kind of nerdy, but it will serve to illustrate how to do graphics stuff ... http://stefano.italians.nl/archives/65 This is the fifth part of the tutorial Cover letter with style. You can find the fourth part here. In this part I will show you how to add your logo as a watermark to your cover letter ((Note that in this part of the tutorial there is nothing specific to ... http://stefano.italians.nl/archives/64 This is the fourth part of the tutorial Cover letter with style. You can find the third part here. After the header, I will take care of the footer. To change the default I will use the \firstfoot command. Basically it works like \firsthead, so I have nothing special to add. ... http://stefano.italians.nl/archives/63 This is the third part of the tutorial Cover letter with style. You can find the second part here. It's time to setup a custom header for our cover letter. I usually put my name and my current job title in the header, accordingly to my big ego. In KOMA-Script, there ... http://stefano.italians.nl/archives/62 This is the second part of the tutorial Cover letter with style. You can find the first part here. In this second part, we will change the default fonts using fontspec. Forget importing Postscript fonts, classifying them under the NFSS ((New Font Selection Scheme)) and other crazy stuff: fontspec ... http://stefano.italians.nl/archives/61 Time flies and almost one year went by without me writing the 5th part of Your Curriculum in LaTeX series. You know what? I grew tired of the tutorial: you can figure out the rest ((Oh, gentlemen, do you know, perhaps I consider myself an intelligent man, only because all ... http://stefano.italians.nl/archives/55 This is the fourth part of the tutorial. You can find here the third part. In the first part we took care of the title of the resume; in the second part we organized the sections, using an appropriate style; finally, in the third part, we formatted the footer, as a ... http://stefano.italians.nl/archives/50 This is the third part of the tutorial. You can find here the second part. In the first part of the tutorial we took care of the title of the resume; in the second part we organized the sections, using an appropriate style. Now it's time to properly format the pages ... http://stefano.italians.nl/archives/26 This is the second part of the tutorial. You can find here the first part. Now it's time to add the section headers. We will use the command \section, in this way: [latex] \documentclass{article} \includepackage{soul} \begin{document} \begin{center} \textsc{\so{\Huge{Iulius Caesar}}} % hereafter we specify the section % of our resume \section{Experiences} \section{Skills} \section{Education} \section{Publications} \section{Personal Info} \section{Languages} \section{Interests} \end{center} \end{document} [/latex] The result is like this: The section headers can be improved ... http://stefano.italians.nl/archives/14