My LaTeX paper-writing workflow had suffered a severe blow when Inkscape 0.47 was introduced into Ubuntu repositories. With this version Inkscape switched to Cairo library for EPS export and that produced this bug for those of us who use pstricks to make the text in figures look more LaTeX-like.

During the making of my BSc thesis I have came across many problems that had two basic solutions summarized to:

• Do it the easy way that turns out to be pretty dull and time consuming when you have to repeat it a couple of times
• Put some effort into thinking of an effective solution and benefit later when the whole process becomes much more efficient. Plus you learn a lot of stuff.

Needles to say, I have picked the second options over and over again. The result is a bunch of mostly LaTeX related tips and resources that I will publish one after another on my blog.

BSc thesis – day 17 I consider writing writing your thesis on a technical faculty in anything but TeX to be an insult against the world itself. Yes, I do. Let the humanists keep their puny MS Word, real men (and women) use TeX