Are any LaTeX experts reading this blog? I want to create a simple figure in xfig and use it in my LaTeX document with proper LaTeX math fonts. I have tried the supposedly standard way of marking text “special” and use LaTeX fonts in XFig and export the figure in name.pstex and name.pstex_t files. I then use \input{name.pstex_t} inside a figure enviroment to actually use the figure. The result is weird, the text is fine but the overlayed postscript included from the pstex_t file is not shown, instead a bounding box and a label is drawn. I have tried to open the pstex file in a postscript viewer, and that looks correct.
Here is the LaTeX code:

\begin{figure}[tbh]
\centerline {
\input{isect.pstex_t}
}
\caption{Finding intersectings}
\label{fig:correctness}
\end{figure}

And the output can be seen in the attached screenshot.

The body of the pstex_t file includes the pstex file by starting a picture enviroment and then use \includegraphics:

\begin{picture}(0,0)%
\includegraphics{isect.pstex}%
\end{picture}%


I am pretty sure this exchange could easily have taken place between Mikkel and I, no?

<Guo_Si> Hey, you know what sucks?
<TheXPhial> vaccuums
<Guo_Si> Hey, you know what sucks in a metaphorical sense?
<TheXPhial> black holes
<Guo_Si> Hey, you know what just isn’t cool?
<TheXPhial> lava?

So, we are planning on playing some volleyball this saturday. We meet at 13:00 at the mathematics department. Who is coming?

Big news, Martin has introduced a ranking system on the planet. We are now all ranked according to how many posts we have made on our blogs. I have no idea on how ties are broken though, perhaps Martin can clarify this?

And no, increasing my ranking was not the only purpose for writing this post :)

Sorry for being all political on such a ordinary tuesday morning, but I just saw an article linked to at jamiemcc. Entitled, The European Counterweight, Part One: A Leaderless Superpower, the article is a lenghty piece about how europe could be seen as a real counterweight to the United States. It states:

It [the EU] has more people (454.7 million) than the United States?â€â€�a larger consumer market?â€â€�more troops (collectively, almost two million armed forces personnel)?â€â€�and, with more votes on the United Nations Security Council and every other international body, stronger political muscle.

It has a president, a legislative body, a flag, a national anthem, a motto (?“Unity in Diversity?�), open borders between member states, a constitution (yet to be ratified), a Bill of Rights, and a court system that can overrule the highest of any member court.

It also has an emerging common culture that speaks a common language: English

It is an interesting read and kinda makes me rethink this whole European Union thing in which Denmark more or less is a second-class citizen by choice.

In case anyone is wondering, we missed our deadline tonight. The paper is just about ready though so we will probably finish it in the summer when I am visiting Duke. The last couple of days has been quite hectic with some of the coauthors traveling. One was in China (UTC +8), one in Arizona (UTC -7), me in Denmark (UTC+2) and two in North Carolina (UTC -4). This makes last-minuts decisions and coordination quite, errr, weird :)

The next couple of weeks will be spent tying some loose ends, getting my student to the exam, writing some on my own stuff, going to a summer-school in game theory, and maybe starting something new with gabi. We’ll see. I also have an exam of my own (Crytpologic Protol Theory) in thirteen days.

This weekend I discovered that I was running out of space on my webhost. I use netplads.dk which is a completely free service run by the guys operating GratisDNS. I mailed them asking if they could give me more than the 40 megs which their standard solution offers, I would be willing to pay for this. I just got a reply saying that hey have extended my space to a 100 meg, and I do not even have to pay. So I get free hosting with PHP and MySQL and 100 megs of storage completely for free on a stable server. Way cool!

Three points:

• For next Xmas (Ecks-Mas) I wish for the opening of a Sunset Boulevard restaurant at the mall nearby IT-parken.
• I hate probability theory
• I should probably go home soon
• I cannot count

I just installed The Drivel Journal Editor on my office machine. Drivel is a blogging tool for GNOME that is able to talk to my wordpress blog here. I simply point Drivel to http://moelhave.dk/xmlrpc.php, write my username and password, and Drivel is then ready. I like being able to avoid using the slow web interface from time to time.
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