TextMate easter egg

Very nice Halloween icon...

Niceboxes (latex)

This nice sty comes from an example I found on the web. The code is not mine. However, I wasn't able to find again the original code (and the original author) to give credit. There may be some small modifications I made: if it does not work, it's likely it's my fault.
You can define things like

\usepackage{niceboxes}
\newenvironment{definition}[1][Definition]{
\par
\SpecialEnv{#1}{LightSlateGrey}{Lavender}{LightSlateGrey}{}%
}{%
\endSpecialEnv
}

Of course you need to have imported xcolors if you want to call colors by name (like LightSlateGrey)

Latex Companion

And eventually from Amazon arrived the Latex Companion...

I leafed through it and have to say it seems a wonderful book. There's plenty of information (in my opinion more than other book on Latex like the "Guide to latex" or Lamport's book -- that seems more suited to a beginner latex user).

In fact I was spending too much time on the web to look for information on intermediate or advanced tasks, and I was also thinking to abandon latex in favor of something else (by the way, I didn't find a true candidate, a part from docbook). Thanks to Andrea Bergia (I didn't find his proper blog/website) for pointing me the listings package that solving one of my immediate problems made me understand that it wasn't latex not being suited for what I had to do: it was me who needed to learn more latex.

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