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 Post subject: More ideas to improve the toolPosted: Mon Aug 02, 2004 7:28 pm
Hi there!

I would love to have grouped texts (as suggested before) - preferable as sub-menues.

The place where the data-File is stored should be in the config. So it can be setup to be used in a network-enviroment.

Another Idea is an interactive part (a special Char in the text is replaced by user input). Like this

"This ist my phrase. Please reply until <input "Date:"> for further info..."

Keep up the great work!

Thomas

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 Post subject: Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2004 7:52 pm

Joined: Tue Feb 17, 2004 12:49 am
Posts: 587
Hi,

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The place where the data-File is stored should be in the config. So it can be setup to be used in a network-enviroment.

Do you think this is really needed ? I have some doubt in this. But I will think about this.

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Another Idea is an interactive part (a special Char in the text is replaced by user input). Like this

"This ist my phrase. Please reply until <input "Date:"> for further info..."

Sorry, but I have not understand your idea. What do you mean?

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Best regards, Tiushkov Nikolay

Last edited by softvoile on Sun Jul 02, 2006 4:43 am, edited 1 time in total.

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 Post subject: Better explanationPosted: Tue Aug 03, 2004 5:53 pm
Hi again!

What I suggested was a way to input text which contains a special char(s) (e.g. @@@). Instead of typing that char the typing stops and an input-box asks the User what to fill in.

When you write a Letter it could be a phrase like
-------------
Hello @@@,

thanks for contacting us. Blah blah blah...
------------
When you use that phrase the user is asked "Replace @@@ with:" and enters "Paul". Then the letter would become:

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Hello Paul,

thanks for contacting us. Blah blah blah...
------------

Even better would be a syntax which allows the admin to define the text of the question like <@ Please enter Name of Customer: @>

Hope I could make my idea clear (sorry: english isn't my native language...).

Greetings from Germany

Thomas

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 Post subject: Regarding Network-Functions...Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2004 5:57 pm
Hi once more...

For me a tool which allows working in a network is a must. We have 5+ People in customer service. They all should use the same phrases provided and managed from a privileged admin. As phrases change frequently copying the data-file all the time is not very funny... .

Maybe I am not the only one with such needs... .

Greetings

Thomas

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 Post subject: Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2004 6:34 pm

Joined: Tue Feb 17, 2004 12:49 am
Posts: 587
Guten Tag !

Excuse me for my foolishness %) Now I had understood, it's simple. I will think over this and will realize.

Thanks.

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Best regards, Tiushkov Nikolay

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 Post subject: More ideas and many thanksPosted: Thu Aug 05, 2004 10:45 am

Joined: Thu Aug 05, 2004 10:26 am
Posts: 2
For over a decade my livelihood as a transcriptionist has depended upon the ability to type with speed and accuracy. Since last year when carpal tunnel syndrome caused the loss of use of two digits on my left hand my life has been impacted profoundly. Special one-handed keyboards simply aren't an option considering their price (from $500 to$1000) and the fact that they wear out just like all keyboards, even the best, do. I'm hard on keyboards, even without the use of two fingers I've worn out one Compaq and two IBMs this past year at a cost of over $150. I'm always looking for programs now to enable me to maintain my productivity plus extend the life of my keyboards. I can see that FlashPaste is going to be a huge help in both areas. It may have already been requested but I think it would be great if links pasted into FlashPaste could be made clickable. Also I think Thomas1000's suggestion to implement the use of special characters is very useful. Perhaps a built-in character map (similar to the one that comes with Windows except... better I also hope FlashPaste's development will include the ability to access lists/archives through the interface itself instead of through the Windows Explorer. If FlashPaste only included a keyboard re-mapper Jus' kiddin'... Despite all this, thank you for a very useful app. I look very forward to using it. Best of luck to you in all your endeavors. Top  Post subject: Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2004 3:26 pm Joined: Thu Jul 29, 2004 3:44 pm Posts: 25 Like Thomas, I too have been asked to check to see if the common.txt file can be stored on a central server, for central control of the strings that our Engineers will be using with their customers. In other words, is there a way to have flashpaste look to a network share for the common.txt file, as opposed to the applicationdata/flashpaste folder? Thank you! _________________ SmellyCat Top  Post subject: Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2004 8:20 pm  Site Admin Joined: Tue Feb 17, 2004 12:49 am Posts: 587 hi, Ok, I see this is needed function. I will make this in next version. _________________ Best regards, Tiushkov Nikolay Top  Post subject: suggestions: snippetsPosted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 3:35 pm Dear colleague, Your Program is a very nice one. Contrary to some good text editors, where it is possible to make macroses, snippets, autocomplete etc., this program is useful, because it may be used from within ANY text input window. Thank You very much and please go on! However, may I suggest another option, i.e. to make a snippet, i.e. to add preceeding and following text before and after the selected text. e.g. @@@ means that I may select a line(s) with an equation, run FlashPaste, and have e.g. e^x=\sum_{k=0}^{infty}\frac{x^k}{k!} If nothing is selected, it will be equal to select "null string" and one will have just text. Despite the AS IS principle, may I hope that such an improvement could be made. With best wishes and thanks, Ivan Top  Post subject: Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 8:58 pm  Site Admin Joined: Tue Feb 17, 2004 12:49 am Posts: 587 Hi, I think that I'll add a similar feature but through one or even two releases... Thanks for your propositon. Nikolay. _________________ Best regards, Tiushkov Nikolay Top  Post subject: Faster pastes,Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2005 6:58 am Here are my suggestions after several weeks of use, especially with dreamweaver html text editor. Suggestion 1: It would be much faster if instead of 1) Selecting text to paste in flashpaste hotbox, 2) click on the paste icon, 3) Then click on the program you were using to paste text, 4) ctrl+V to paste the string [4 steps] 1) Double click on the text in flashpaste 2) Automatically, the text goes at the cursor position of the programm used (or last active window) [1 step !!] -------------------------------------------------- SUGGESTION 2: B It would be much faster if when highlighting a string to copy in flashpaste, you press another user defined hotkey and this will casue the selected text to automatically go into a 'new clip' special dir of flashpaste (eg quickclips) without the need of pressing the copy, etc. ------------------------------------------------------------- SUGGESTION 3: In coding (eg html) it is often required the copying of filenames. I would like to see a feature that when you select a list of files in a directory, you can automatically copy the filenames (as text) say by clicking rightmouse button a select "Put in flashpaste". As a result a directory with the name of the DIR will be formed in flashpaste with all the filename text as clips in assored A-Z order(optionsable in settings). immagine you have hundred filenames and you have to copy them one by one I look forward for your reply With these implimented, your paste-copy program will beat all the rest in the market. NB please delete a similar post that by mistake I palced as a new topic in the flashpaste main forum. It should be here. sorry] Top  Post subject: Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2005 12:22 pm  Site Admin Joined: Tue Feb 17, 2004 12:49 am Posts: 587 Quote: Suggestion 1: It would be much faster if instead of 1) Selecting text to paste in flashpaste hotbox, 2) click on the paste icon, 3) Then click on the program you were using to paste text, 4) ctrl+V to paste the string [4 steps] 1) Double click on the text in flashpaste 2) Automatically, the text goes at the cursor position of the programm used (or last active window) [1 step !!] opp, Flashpaste works exactly as you said the second time. You just double-click on item or hit on "Paste the String" button (at the right side of toolbar) and text should be automatically pasted to the last active window. I think that you hit on "copy" button instead of "paste". Quote: SUGGESTION 2: B It would be much faster if when highlighting a string to copy in flashpaste, you press another user defined hotkey and this will casue the selected text to automatically go into a 'new clip' special dir of flashpaste (eg quickclips) without the need of pressing the copy, etc. I'll think about this. Quote: SUGGESTION 3: In coding (eg html) it is often required the copying of filenames. I would like to see a feature that when you select a list of files in a directory, you can automatically copy the filenames (as text) say by clicking rightmouse button a select "Put in flashpaste". As a result a directory with the name of the DIR will be formed in flashpaste with all the filename text as clips in assored A-Z order(optionsable in settings). immagine you have hundred filenames and you have to copy them one by one Good Idea, I'll add something similar features in future. _________________ Best regards, Tiushkov Nikolay Last edited by softvoile on Sun Jul 02, 2006 4:46 am, edited 1 time in total. Top  Post subject: Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 2:27 pm softvoile wrote: Quote: Suggestion 1: opp, Flashpaste works exactly what you say in second times. You just double-click on item or hit on "Paste the String" button (at the right side of toolbar) and text should automatic paste to last active window. I thinks that you hit on "copy" button instead of "paste". On Dreamweaver it does not do this on doubleclicking on the string line )item to paste). HOWEVER, ocassionally this action has been performed. Maybe dreamweaver has the problem to have multiple windows in one large screen window and flashpaste gets confused to which window to paste. I am 100% that I clicked on paste button regards Action mode 1 (the longer way) Can you test flashpaste on dreamweaver please? Top  Post subject: date - special input codesPosted: Wed Sep 28, 2005 8:45 pm Is it possible to enter a code/string that would tell flashpaste to insert the current date in that spot? example: test completed$DATE.

would actually paste
test completed 9/28/2005.

or something like that...

Thanx...
grateful user

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 Post subject: never mindPosted: Sun May 09, 2010 10:49 am
never mind... I see that is available in the PRO version...

Thanx...

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A sundial is a device that tells the time of day by the apparent position of the Sun in the sky. In the narrowest sense of the word it consists of a flat plate (the dial) and a gnomon which casts a shadow onto the dial. As the sun appears to move across the sky, the shadow aligns with different hour-lines which are marked on the dial to indicate the time of day. The style is the time-telling edge of the gnomon, though a single point or nodus may be used. The gnomon casts a broad shadow; the shadow of the style shows the time. The gnomon may be a rod, a wire or an elaborately decorated metal casting. The style must be parallel to the axis of the Earth's rotation for the sundial to be accurate throughout the year. The style's angle from horizontal is equal to the sundial's geographical latitude.

In a broader sense a sundial is any device that uses the sun's altitude or azimuth (or both) to show the time. In addition to their time-telling function, sundials are valued as decorative objects, as literary metaphors and as objects of mathematical study.

It is common for inexpensive mass-produced decorative sundials to have incorrectly aligned gnomons and hour-lines, which cannot be adjusted to tell correct time

### Equatorial sundials:

The distinguishing characteristic of the equatorial dial (also called the equinoctial dial) is the planar surface that receives the shadow, which is exactly perpendicular to the gnomon's style. This plane is called equatorial, because it is parallel to the equator of the Earth and of the celestial sphere. If the gnomon is fixed and aligned with the Earth's rotational axis, the sun's apparent rotation about the Earth casts a uniformly rotating sheet of shadow from the gnomon; this produces a uniformly rotating line of shadow on the equatorial plane. Since the sun rotates 360° in 24 hours, the hour-lines on an equatorial dial are all spaced 15° apart (360/24).

${displaystyle H_{E}=15^{circ }times t(hours)}$

The uniformity of their spacing makes this type of sundial easy to construct. If the dial plate material is opaque, both sides of the equatorial dial must be marked, since the shadow will be cast from below in winter and from above in summer. With translucent dial plates (e.g. glass) the hour angles need only be marked on the sun-facing side, although the hour numberings (if used) need be made on both sides of the dial, owing to the differing hour schema on the sun-facing and sun-backing sides. Another major advantage of this dial is that equation of time (EoT) and daylight saving time (DST) corrections can be made by simply rotating the dial plate by the appropriate angle each day. This is because the hour angles are equally spaced around the dial. For this reason, an equatorial dial is often a useful choice when the dial is for public display and it is desirable to have it show the true local time to reasonable accuracy. The EoT correction is made via the relation :

${displaystyle Correction^{circ }={frac {EoT(minutes)+60times Delta DST(hours)}{15}}}$

Near the equinoxes in spring and autumn, the sun moves on a circle that is nearly the same as the equatorial plane; hence, no clear shadow is produced on the equatorial dial at those times of year, a drawback of the design.

A nodus is sometimes added to equatorial sundials, which allows the sundial to tell the time of year. On any given day, the shadow of the nodus moves on a circle on the equatorial plane, and the radius of the circle measures the declination of the sun. The ends of the gnomon bar may be used as the nodus, or some feature along its length. An ancient variant of the equatorial sundial has only a nodus (no style) and the concentric circular hour-lines are arranged to resemble a spider-web.

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The Mathematical Basis for Timelessness

C. S. Lewis BBC Part 1 from Ron Smith on Vimeo.

C. S. Lewis understood why God has to be timeless as you can hear in his own words. Timelessness is, however, not just a theological concept. If timelessness exists then there must be a timeless God. The math for timelessness is actually quite spectacular and not really that complex, and it proves that timelessness exists.

With Einstein’s original publication of the special theory of relativity in 1905, the formula E=mc2 was born. The concept of time dilation is a key foundation of the theory. Simply stated it says that to every object in motion, the speed of light is constantly the same. That means for an object in motion that time must change since the speed of light cannot.

The faster that an object moves, the slower time passes. The classic thought experiment is of twins, one who remains on Earth while the other who rockets to a far distant star at some speed much, much closer to the speed of light.

Upon the return from his astronautical trek the adventurer will have seemingly remained young while his brother on Earth will have gotten much older. How much older depends only on how fast the rocket was.

The equation for time dilation and has been proven. In order for the time on satellites to all be synchronized with each other and the earth, each satellite has to use this equation to properly adjust its own time as it orbits at different speeds around the earth.

In the example below, t‘ is the time that passes for the earth-bound twine. Let that be 10 years. c is the speed of light. v‘ is the velocity of the astronaut twin in the rocketing to a far distant star. t is the time that passes for the astronaut.

As the velocity of the rocket gets closer and closer to the speed of light, the time that the astronaut sees pass shrinks over the ten years experienced by his twin brother on earth.

What is significant is that if the rocket could reach the speed of light the astronaut would see no time pass not only for the ten years that his earth-bound twin experienced. The astronaut would see no time pass for any amount of time that his brother experienced! That is mathematical timelessness.

Let me state again that because God is timeless, he knows no such thing as a before or after. Because we are creatures of time and God must use our language based in time, it is easy to see how confusion arises on our part about timelessness.

When God calls Israel chosen, there is no point from his timeless perspective at which they are chosen or that they were not chosen. To us there is a before and after. They were timelessly chosen.

That’s also why nothing changes God’s mind. God does not change because he is timeless. He just is the same always. When Jesus is praying to the Heavenly Father who loved him “before the foundation of the world” it doesn’t mean that at some point before creation God the Father “discovered” his love for God the Son. He loves the Son timelessly.

John 17:24 Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be ewith me fwhere I am, gto see my glory that you have given me because you loved me hbefore the foundation of the world.

When the language of timelessness is communicated into the stream of time and space, we distort God’s perspective when we forget where the message sender exists. We try to shackle his message with the bonds of time and the results are not always pretty.

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Fill the lower part with lines for tcolorbox

Using the tcolorbox package to produce exercises for a textbook, I use the option invisible to let space for students for writing their solutions.

For that, I want to let the blank space of the lower part, filled by horizontal lines, to let the students write comfortably. This must be done for the long exercises, taking more than one page, too, of course. How can I do this?

Note that we can obtain a grid with the option help lines, but this option induces a grid not lines... So can we put a similar option what gives only horizontal and not vertical lines ?

I give a MWE:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{etoolbox}
\usepackage[most]{tcolorbox}

\NewTColorBox[auto counter]{exercise}{m+O{}}{%
enhanced,
breakable,
colframe=green!20!black,
colback=yellow!10!white,
coltitle=green!40!black,
fonttitle=\bfseries,
underlay={\begin{tcbclipinterior}
(interior.north west) circle (2cm);
\end{tcbclipinterior}},
title={Exercise~ \thetcbcounter:},
label={exercise:#1},
segmentation style={double=white,draw=green!20!black,double distance=1pt,solid},
lowerbox=invisible,
savelowerto=solutions/exercise-\thetcbcounter.tex,
record={\string\solution{#1}{solutions/exercise-\thetcbcounter.tex}},
#2
}

\begin{document}
\pagestyle{empty}
\tcbstartrecording
\begin{exercise}{Ex1}[coltitle=cyan!80!black]
Compute the derivative of the following function:
\begin{equation*}
f(x)=\sin((\sin x)^2)
\end{equation*}

\tcblower
The derivative is:
\vspace*{5cm}   %% more space on solution for clarity
$f^\prime(x) = \cos((\sin x)^2) 2\sin x \cos x.$
\end{exercise}

\tcbstoprecording
\end{document}

and its compilation:

The lowerbox is not an special node like title, interior or frame, but it's the space below segmentation node, therefore you can use \tcbsebmentstate switch to know if the corresponding box fragment contains or not the lower part. Following code shows a possible solution using tcbsegmentstate inside etoolbox conditionals. By the way, etoolbox is already loaded by tcolorbox, you don't need to charge it explicitly.

\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[most]{tcolorbox}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\newtcolorbox{mybox}[1][]{
enhanced,
breakable,
underlay unbroken and first={%
\ifnumequal{\tcbsegmentstate}{1}{
\begin{tcbclipinterior}
\draw[help lines, ystep=\baselineskip, xstep=\linewidth] (segmentation.west) grid (frame.south east);
\end{tcbclipinterior}
}{}
},
underlay middle and last={%
\ifnumequal{\tcbsegmentstate}{1}{
\begin{tcbclipinterior}
\draw[help lines, ystep=\baselineskip, xstep=\linewidth] (segmentation.west) grid (frame.south east);
\end{tcbclipinterior}
}{\ifnumequal{\tcbsegmentstate}{2}{
\begin{tcbclipinterior}
\draw[help lines, ystep=\baselineskip, xstep=\linewidth] (frame.north west) grid (frame.south east);
\end{tcbclipinterior}
}{}
}
},
#1
}

\begin{document}
\begin{mybox}
\lipsum[1]
\tcblower
\lipsum[1]
\end{mybox}
\end{document}

• Thank you for your answer, which does exactly my purpose, for this example. The use of the \tcbsegmentstate macro is ingenuous, but I don't understand very well its use... I will read the doc about the macros underlay unbroken, underlay middle etc.. Many thanks – Faouzi Bellalouna Aug 30 '19 at 13:23
• Othe thing please. Your use of xstep and ystep is beautiful for help line but I haven't found it in the doc of the package ! curious ! – Faouzi Bellalouna Aug 30 '19 at 13:39
• These are TiKZ options and commands. You can find them into pgfmanual – Ignasi Aug 30 '19 at 13:47