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Converting a Word Document to Markdown in Two Moves

The Problem

A lot of important government documents are created and saved in Microsoft Word (*.docx). But Microsoft Word is a proprietary format, and it's not really useful for presenting documents on the web. So, I wanted to find a way to convert a .docx file into markdown.

The Solution

As it turns out, there are several open-source tools that allow for conversion between file types. Pandoc is one of them, and it's powerful. In fact, pandoc's website says "If you need to convert files from one markup format into another, pandoc is your swiss-army knife." But, although pandoc can convert from markdown into .docx, it doesn't work in the other direction.

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OUTDATED, see comments below

Install Homebrew:

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

Update Homebrew formulae:

brew update

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Let's Encrypt on Ubuntu 14.04, nginx with webroot auth

This document details how I setup LE on my server. Firstly, install the client as described on http://letsencrypt.readthedocs.org/en/latest/using.html and make sure you can execute it. I put it in /root/letsencrypt.

As it is not possible to change the ports used for the standalone authenticator and I already have a nginx running on port 80/443, I opted to use the webroot method for each of my domains (note that LE does not issue wildcard certificates by design, so you probably want to get a cert for www.example.com and example.com).

Configuration

For this, I placed config files into etc/letsencrypt/configs, named after <domain>.conf. The files are simple:

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\documentclass[twoside]{scrreprt}


\makeatletter
    \def\cleardoublepage{\clearpage%
        \if@twoside
            \ifodd\c@page\else
                \vspace*{\fill}
                \hfill
                \begin{center}

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color   normal      color15         color233
color   error       brightcolor15   color196
color   indicator   color15         color235
color   status      brightcolor39   color233

color   hdrdefault  color245        color233
color   header      brightcolor214  color233 "^(Subject): "
color   signature   color243        color233

color   body        color137        color233 [\-\.+_a-zA-Z0-9]+@[\-\.a-zA-Z0-9]+

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! Hybrid Terminal Colours. Uses the palette from Tomorrow-Night:
! https://github.com/chriskempson/tomorrow-theme/blob/master/vim/colors/Tomorrow-Night.vim
! and the reduced contrast background color from Codecademy's online editor:
! https://www.codecademy.com/learn
! vim: ft=xdefaults

*background: #232C31
*foreground: #C5C8C6
! black
*color0: #2D3C46

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! Hybrid Terminal Colours. Uses the palette from Tomorrow-Night:
! https://github.com/chriskempson/tomorrow-theme/blob/master/vim/colors/Tomorrow-Night.vim
! vim: ft=xdefaults

*background: #1D1F21
*foreground: #C5C8C6
! black
*color0: #282A2E
*color8: #373B41
! red

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A server naming scheme

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Copyright (c) 2014 Max Teufel

Unlimited redistribution and modification of this document is allowed provided that the above copyright notice and this permission notice remains in tact.

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How to implement a custom search for Hugo usig Gruntjs and Lunrjs.

Requirements

Install the following tools:

• Nodejs
• Gruntjs

Setup

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tmux shortcuts & cheatsheet

start new:

tmux

start new with session name:

tmux new -s myname