Shrinking text to the width of other text in latex

This snippet will shrink the text of the first argument to be the width of the second argument. For instance, \shrinktowidthof{AA}{A} will give you two small 'AA's. The if statement means it'll only happen if the first argument is wider than the second, so \shrinktowidthof{a}{A} will just output a normal 'a'. I believe this uses the ifthen, calc, and xstring packages. You also need to do \newlength{\scaleratio} somewhere.

\newcommand{\shrinktowidthof}[2] {
  \setlength{\scaleratio} {
    {1.0pt * \ratio{\widthof{#2}}{\widthof{#1}}}
  }
  \ifthenelse{\lengthtest{\scaleratio < 1.0pt}} {
    \setlength{\scaleratio}{\scaleratio}
    \tokenize{\tokenized}{\the\scaleratio}
    \StrBefore{\tokenized}{pt}[\result]
    \scalebox{\result}{#1}
  } {
    #1
  }
}

Mendeley

Just shared my first collection on Mendeley at Favorites. It's the favorites of my collection (articles on isomorphism and some applications). It's missing a few since I haven't imported everything into Mendeley yet.

Useful hotkeys (for mac)

Switching between windows in the same application: Command + Tilde

See all keyboard shortcuts in eclipse: Command + Shift + L

Word completion in eclipse: Ctrl + .

Template completion: (Ctrl + Space, then Ctrl + Space)

Go do declaration: fn + F3

Go to previous location: Apple + Alt + Left arrow

Go to last edit location: Ctrl + Q

Open type: Apple + Shift + T

Open resource: Apple + Shift + R

Food and drink combinations

Newman's Own Honey Flax Flakes and Silk soy milk go really well together.

Orange juice + cranberry juice is really good too.

Recovering an email attachment in python

To decode an attachment from the text of an email (using python), like:

--------------060805040508050904080009
Content-Type: image/jpeg;
name="img_3282.jpg"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: inline;
filename="img_3282.jpg"

/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAQEASABIAAD/4R5TRXhpZgAASUkqAAgAAAAJAA8BAgAGAAAAegAAABAB
AgAYAAAAgAAAABIBAwABAAAAAQAAABoBBQABAAAAmAAAABsBBQABAAAAoAAAACgBAwABAAAA
... ... ...
gFFdbQfZ9xIfe25gnfGOx+X+VTlt1VxCyMUeItGAec+5/SluCRQmiYhjIuHB27lzjPHP6VZm
059iM/7yJh4gCjsAc445GaSb7h02Da1jkgPgy7EGDuU55Hv+dKrUq5QqP//Z

use the following python script:

#!/usr/bin/env python

import sys
import mimetools

def main():
        infile = open(sys.argv[1], 'r')
        outfile = open(sys.argv[2], 'wb')
        mimetools.decode(infile, outfile, 'base64')
        print 'Greg is a bunneh.'

if __name__ == "__main__":
        main()

and you will recover your attachment (for me it was the following image (i didn't catch the disk even though the photo indicates i did) ).

Second blog post ever!