Daniel Oskarsson danieloskarsson

Firing up LaTex on macOS 🔥

As I'm writing this small tutorial, I assume you've read my previous one about setting up macOS, so if for any tool I'll use without explanation, look to that other article.

MacTex

The full version IS NOT MANDATORY, as in the tutorial that follows I installed the smaller version of MacTeX and proceded installing every needed dependency. Installing the complete package is about ~3.5GB of download and ~5GB on disk, the smaller one is just about 80MBs.

Click here to download the complete version or here to download the smaller version.

Gnuplot

Create PDF files from Markdown sources in OSX

When [Markdown][markdown] appeared more than 10 years ago, it aimed to make it easier to express ideas in an easy-to-write plain text format. It offers a simple syntax that takes the writer focus away from the formatting, thus giving her time to focus on the actual content.

The market abunds of editors to be used for help with markdown. After a few attempts, I settled to Sublime and its browser preview plugin, which work great for me and have a small memory footprint to accomplish that. To pass the results around to other people, less technical, a markdown file and a bunch of images is not the best approach, so converting it to a more robust format like PDF seems like a much better choice.

[Pandoc][pandoc] is the swiss-army knife of converting documents between various formats. While being able to deal with heavy-weight formats like docx and epub, we will need it for the more lightweight markdown. To be able to generate PDF files, we need LaTeX. On OSX, the s

In Google Developer Console inside your app project, on the Credentials section, you must create a new "Service Account" "Client ID", if you have not already. And download the p12 file. You need the service account key file, generated in the Google APIs Console into the same directory and rename it to key.p12.

On Google Play Developer Console you have to give permissions to "YOUR_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_EMAIL@developer.gserviceaccount.com" for uploading apks.

Installation

Download Google APIs Client Library for Python (google-api-python-client): https://code.google.com/p/google-api-python-client/ or use pip:

$ pip install google-api-python-client

System directories

Method	Result
Environment.getDataDirectory()	/data
Environment.getDownloadCacheDirectory()	/cache
Environment.getRootDirectory()	/system

External storage directories

	/*
	* The MIT License (MIT)
	*
	* Copyright (c) 2014 Matthieu Harlé
	*
	* Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
	* of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
	* in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
	* to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
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	#!/bin/sh
	# So you've installed XCode 6 Beta
	# Now we could use Swift toolchain to build a minimal
	# command line Hellow World

	# let's set new Developer Toolchain bundled with Xcode6-Beta.app
	# as default toolchain
	# sudo xcode-select -s /Applications/Xcode6-Beta.app/Contents/Developer

	# alias for Swift binary

	ACTION
	AD_HOC_CODE_SIGNING_ALLOWED
	ALTERNATE_GROUP
	ALTERNATE_MODE
	ALTERNATE_OWNER
	ALWAYS_SEARCH_USER_PATHS
	ALWAYS_USE_SEPARATE_HEADERMAPS
	APPLE_INTERNAL_DEVELOPER_DIR
	APPLE_INTERNAL_DIR
	APPLE_INTERNAL_DOCUMENTATION_DIR

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	// Add one of these.
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	//
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	// I've tried to capture interesting suggestions here.
	//
	// Contributors: @r2d2rigo, @joeldevahl, @msinilo, @_Humus_,
	// @YuriyODonnell, @rygorous, @cmuratori, @mike_acton, @grumpygiant,

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	Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
	of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
	in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
	to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
	copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
	furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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	Copyright (C) 2011 YOUR_NAME_HERE <YOUR_URL_HERE>

	Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim or modified
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	as the name is changed.

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