Even if you know nothing about LaTeX, you can make your first Japanese PDF document by taking a copy of this example file JIS.tex, going to a shell command line and typing "pdflatex JIS.tex". That should produce this output: JIS.pdf. If that doesn’t work for you, then you need to install some LaTeX software or Read more »
Groklaw now has a page of Sean Daly’s interviews – I’ve been asking for this for a while. Old article about privacy problems with Google’s desktop software – I started looking into this because I read an article about the new version of KDE boasting that Google’s desktop software could now be integrated into KDE. Read more »
Proposed changes to India’s patent approval manual, along with comments from Redhat, Microsoft, etc. The Clipperz project’s call for privacy and software freedom in webapps, including input from Stallman FreeGIS.org – a site collecting info about free mapping/geographic data projects. I haven’t had the time to poke around much, but there’s a database page where Read more »
Emacs 21 had a generic function called iso-accents-mode for writing âççéntèd çhàrâçtërs, but that was removed in Emacs 22. It took me a while, but I found the replacement was to use set-input-method, and then select whichever language you want to be able to type the accented characters of. The default keybinding for set-input-method is Read more »