tarleb’s blog

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Typst Musings

PDF
Typst, the new writing tool, was open sourced a couple of days ago. This is right up my alley of course, and I have a couple of thoughts on it, which I share here.
Mar 24, 2023
Albert Krewinkel

 

Auto-numbered list continuations

Writing long, interrupted lists, without counting items
Markdown
pandoc
filter
How to ensure proper numbering of an ordered list that is split into parts and scattered throughout a document.
Nov 28, 2022
Albert Krewinkel

 

Semantic line breaks

How to get a single sentence per line
Markdown
pandoc
How to convert documents such that the output has exactly one sentence per line.
Oct 30, 2022
Albert Krewinkel

 

Install pandoc in custom Docker images

pandoc
tip
Docker
Do you build custom Docker images and need a recent pandoc version in there? It’s as easy as COPY --from=pandoc/minimal:2.19.2 /pandoc /usr/bin/pandoc
Sep 7, 2022
Albert Krewinkel

 

Haskell usedata objects

Haskell
Lua
pandoc
Quarto
When extending pandoc (or Quarto) with Lua filters, we interact with so-called Lua userdata objects. These objects are used to wrap document AST elements, making them…
Sep 7, 2022
Albert Krewinkel

Document font

pandoc
tip
PDF
HTML
Control the document font with the mainfont variable. E.g., this will use a standard sans-serif TeX font: mainfont: Latin Modern Sans. Any system-wide font can be used when going via the XeLaTeX engine, i.e., when pandoc is called with --pdf-engine=xelatex.
Sep 7, 2022
Albert Krewinkel

 

Generating a sitemap with Quarto

quarto
TL;DR: Set the website’s site-url property to generate a sitemap.xml file.
Aug 24, 2022
Albert Krewinkel

Pandoc resources

pandoc
An opinionated list of online materials that pandoc users may find useful.
Aug 23, 2022
Albert Krewinkel

Quarto Website with GitHub Actions

quarto
Using GitHub actions to render and publish a Quarto website.
Aug 8, 2022
Albert Krewinkel

 

Santa’s Little Lua Scripts

lua
hslua
example
A Christmas story about using HsLua to make Haskell application extendable.
Dec 6, 2020
Albert Krewinkel

PDF Version of the Lua Manual

pandoc
lua
pdf
Using pandoc and some filters to render the Lua manual as PDF.
Jul 11, 2020
Albert Krewinkel

 

Extending pandoc with Lua

pandoc
lua
pandoc-filter
My first exposure to Lua has been as a pandoc user, and adding new Lua features to pandoc turned Lua into one of my favorite languages. In this post I will take a look at pan…
Dec 23, 2017
Albert Krewinkel

 

MetaNook2014 – Command Line Talk

talk
command-line
Last night was the night of this year’s MetaNook. It was the fourth time that the local hackers, most notably MetaMeute and Chaotikum, joined forces to organize a night full…
Nov 22, 2014
Albert Krewinkel

 

rt6_redirect: source isn’t a valid nexthop for redirect target

security
sysadmin
The zeitkraut server is configured to work with IPv6. For quite some time now, I’ve been seeing some strange errors in my log files. If you’ve been noticing something…
Aug 1, 2014
Albert Krewinkel

 

How to configure zsh with vi bindings and nice shortcuts

command-line
key bindings
Getting a beautiful and informative command-line prompt, as well as vi-like key bindings.
Jun 29, 2014
Albert Krewinkel

 

Exploring HTTP Headers with netcat

command-line
network
One of the many great things about free and open source software and the whole GNU/Linux ecosystem are the simple yet powerful tools available. The possibilities enabled by…
Nov 5, 2013
Albert Krewinkel

 

Russian Process Roulette

command-line
nonsense
A couple of friends and I just discussed the idea of Russian Process Roulette: Everybody starts a little program which kills processes at random. The winner is the one whose…
Sep 27, 2013
Albert Krewinkel

 

Avoid Mail Harvesting through Address Munging

html
css
javascript
Spam just doesn’t die. Every major mail provider has really good spam filters in place, as do the common mail clients. Nontheless, there seem to be enough people reading –…
Aug 25, 2013
Albert Krewinkel
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