mmv on Mac OS X September 2, 2010 No Comments

Since I switched from Debian and Ubuntu to Mac OS X, I got used to most of the differences between those operating systems. Yet one very important thing for me was still lacking: A command line utility called mmv… Read the rest of this entry »

Japanese in LaTeX documents in Unicode with MacTeX May 10, 2008 13 Comments

Since I discovered LaTeX, I have become a real fan of this typesetting system. Yet, something bothered me very much: I could not use easily Japanese with LaTeX using a normal encoding, that is to say using UTF-8. Using CJK is not too difficult, but getting CJKutf8 to work is much harder. I just couldn’t resign myself to use some strange encoding popular in Japan, mostly for Windows Addicts

But I just found how to do it. Since it is not so easy, I want to do a copy-paste how-to explaining precisely how to install UTF-8 Japanese support in MacTeX. So, just follow the guide…

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A matter of language March 3, 2008 No Comments

As you can see, although English is not my native language, I chose to write articles in English for my personal website. The reason why I chose to write in English is quite simple: English is the most spoken language in the world, and I didn’t want to translate every article in some secondary language.

Yet, I may use French for some articles which have nothing to do with non-French people. I hope you will understand that!

However, my English surely is not perfect nor genuine. Therefore, if you see some mistake in my articles, please report it with the Contact form. By the way, don’t hesitate to make comments on my website or my articles: I do like having feedback, and I try to keep my articles up to date.