I just spent the day in the library, where I used Internet Explorer on a public terminal. I knew that IE did not render CSS properly, but until I tried to use this web site for several hours in IE, I had no idea how bad things were. I’ve hacked the CSS so that it displays reasonably well in IE now. I hope this didn’t mess things up for other browsers. Grr… » [Expand post] [Permalink]
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In this previous post, I had actually made use of a small plug-in I had written for WordPress, which creates a macro for pulling bibliographical information from Wikindx, which I use to manage my bibliography.
The plug-in is rather simple, but since a web search turned up nothing similar (which is kind of surprising), and someone might find it useful, I thought I’d post it here… » [Expand post] [Permalink]
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For my Ph.D. research, I had set up the Wikindx bibliography management system for use on my laptop to keep track of the papers that I had read or come across. Furthermore, I use it to store local copies of frequently accessed papers by attaching them as PDF files.
Because I’m using Jarnal to annotate these papers, I wanted to integrate the ability to launch Jarnal into Wikindx itself, and also to store the annotations in Wikindx along with the attached documents.
I wrote the Annotate With Jarnal plug-in module for Wikindx initially for my private use, so it’s not very polished. But it gets the job done… » [Expand post] [Permalink]
Update (Sept. 29, 2009): I got in touch with Kevin Lindsey, the author of the script discussed below for converting DigiMemo DHW files to SVG format. He’s put his code on github, and written a new blog post about it.
For taking notes physically on paper, I use an ACECAD DigiMemo L2 digital notepad (whom I have named Little Wooden Boy).
Because I use Linux primarily, I don’t use the Windows-based software provided by ACECAD. Instead, I use Jarnal, an open source note-taking application written in Java.
This poses a minor problem, as the DigiMemo products store their output in a proprietary ACECAD format called DHW… » [Expand post] [Permalink]
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One application that I always look for in a mobile device is a multilingual dictionary. If one is not available, I can make do with support for multiple input methods (such as through SCIM), access to the internet, and a decent web browser (one that handles non-Latin fonts and right-to-left scripts).
I often end up using a program called Yudit, a Unicode editor written by Gáspár Sinai, even on a system that has native integrated support for multiple input methods, because it’s available on a wide range of systems and I’m familiar with the input methods bundled with it. For example, even though the same input method is supposedly available on both Microsoft Windows and through SCIM, there may be slight differences in the keyboard layouts that can result in typos if one is not careful.
It seems that the majority of wireless handheld devices ship with only one input method. Yudit does not appear to run on any of the major mobile operating systems… » [Expand post] [Permalink]
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There’s really no special trick to using jsMath with WordPress, bbPress, or Wikindx — just follow the installation instructions.
Essentially, you just need to add the following code in the header of your web site (where “path.to” should be replaced with the URL to your installation of jsMath):
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://path.to/jsMath/easy/load.js"></script>
For this web site, the above line was added to the headers of each of the template files of the component software packages.
One minor trick to getting jsMath to work with Wikindx is that all special characters have to be escaped properly\(\)… » [Expand post] [Permalink]