How can text be formatted as in this example from Alice in Wonderland, where the margins for the text seems to follow a specific shape (if that's what's actually happening..sorry if I'm clueless here), while also the text size decreases? I think I can find out how to manage the shrinking text (like ) but not the margin-shape.
I am designing a poster, which has some geometrical shapes (TikZ paths) surrounded by some text. I would like the text to flow neatly around these shapes. I bet there's some clever TikZ magic that could do this.  EDIT: This is the sort of effect I want, sorry to not be clear:    \documentclass[a4paper]{article} \usepackage{tikz} \begin{document} \begin{tikzpicture} \draw (0,0) to (2,-2) to (2,-4) to (4,-4) to [out=up, in=down] (6.5,0); \node [text width=6cm, anchor=north west] at (0,0) { \hspace{5pt}  This is the sort of effect I want to \\ \hspace{23pt} achieve, with text automatically \\ \hspace{36pt} constrained by some \\ \hspace{46pt} geometrical form. Here \\ \hspace{55pt} it's just a curve, \\ \hspace{57pt} but this could \\ \hspace{57pt} also be the \\ \hspace{57pt} text label \\ \hspace{57pt} of a node.}; \end{tikzpicture} \end{document}
I am trying to recreate a penne pasta. I am creating a cylinder removing the two end faces and then I solidify the mesh.  However I do not know how to extrude (or cut away) the two ends to make them pointy like in the picture of the penne below. I have tried to use bisect and mirror, but without successful results.  Any idea? Order of operations using Object Initializer Syntax Does the order in which I set properties using the object initializer syntax get executed in the exact same order?  For instance if I do this:  var s = new Person { FirstName = "Micah",                      LastName = "Martin",                      IsLoaded = true                    }   will each property get set in the same order? My 3 years old doesn't tell me when he needs to use the bathroom My son is 3 years old and doesn't tell me when he needs to use the bathroom. It has been 5 months now that I took his diaper off him. I just do not know what I should do.  Should I put a diaper on him again?  I mean, is this normal? Please help. I get frustrated sometimes.  He doesn't want to potty at all! I did train him before but now that he understands, he doesn't want to go to potty. How to manage and restore a modern iPhone or iDevice on ubuntu with iTunes This question—how to install iTunes on ubuntu—has been asked many times before on this site, but the answers are all outdated and involve Wine or some other tool that no longer works for the most recent version of iTunes. Put simply, I need to regularly back up and occasionally restore the firmware on an iPhone 6.   I cannot:   dual boot Windows—for some reason installing one OS makes the other unbootable &amp; after days of headache &amp; dozens of reinstalls I’ve decided to just leave Ubuntu be &amp; not try to preserve Windows. Plus “just use Windows” is not really a solution on an Ubuntu forum. use libimobiledevice-dev. libimobiledevice-dev doesn’t let you manage iOS updates or sync music anymore. Buy another phone. This one should be obvious but for some reason some asshat always comments “too bad lmao shouldntve bought an iphone ;P”. Why Does Software Updater Say No updates Available, but apt-get upgrade Shows updates available? I know it's not possible to install a 32-bit driver in the traditional way, but I really cannot find a 64-bit driver for my memory card reader. Is there anyway I can somehow use this device with a 32-bit driver on a 64-bit Windows 7 installation?  I was thinking there might be a way to run a device in compatibility mode? Possibly even have a 32-bit device layer emulator or something?  I'm interested in any method to get this device up and running. Short story where time is accelerated and characters have to get back to ship? Looking for a short story where time is accelerated on a planet.  The characters are actually born at the beginning of the story and then grow up quickly and inadvertently learn that their forebears came from a rocket ship nearby.  After having aged to "teenagers" they try to reach the ship?  At some point there is a war between confused aging survivors.  I think it was in a compilation which included a story called "Cousins". Let $u$ be an integer of the form $4n+3$, where $n$ is a positive integer. Can we find integers $a$ and $b$ such that $u = a^2 + b^2$? If not, how to establish this for a fact? Existence of area-preserving diffeomorphism between two sets in $\mathbb{R}^2$ Suppose that we have open sets $A, B\subset \mathbb{R}^2$ such that $A$ and $B$ are simply connected and have smooth boundaries. Furthermore, let us assume that $m(A) = m(B) &gt; 0$, where $m$ is the Lebesgue measure on $\mathbb{R}^2$. My question is as follows: when does there exist an area-preserving diffeomorphism between $A$ and $B$? In this context, an area-preserving diffeomorphism between $A$ and $B$ is a is a $C^{\infty}$-diffeomorphism $\phi : A\to B$ such that $m(S) = m(\phi(S))$ for all measurable $S\subseteq A$. If an area-preserving diffeomorphism doesn't always exist between sets $A$ and $B$ as above, are there any extra conditions we can impose on $A$ and $B$ such that there does exist an area-preserving diffeomorphism?  My thoughts thus far are that we always have a $C^{\infty}$-diffeomorphism between $A$ and $B$: this is a consequence of the . It's also obvious to me that if we can deform $A$ linearly to get $B$, then that deformation will be area-preserving. Furthermore, it seems that aside from this case, there's no reason why an area-preserving diffeomorphism should exist. However, I'm having a hard time proving that there necessarily isn't an area-preserving diffeomorphism between $A$ and $B$ if $B$ is not a linear deformation of $A$. Does anybody have any ideas? Function pointers/delegates in Java? For my Java game server I send the Action ID of the packet which basically tells the server what the packet is for. I want to map each Action ID (an integer) to a function. Is there a way of doing this without using a switch? LaTeX conditional expression I would like to be able to set a flag at the beginning of the main flag (say output) that tells if I want to produce a paper document or an electronic document.   Then I should check this flag to define or not empty pages, hypperref, oneside or twosides, etc.  How could I do that ? If $L_i/K$ are Galois extensions of number fields, $i=1,\ldots,n$, and $L=L_1\cdots L_n$ is the compositum. Then it's true that a prime $\mathfrak{p}$ of $K$ splits in $L$ if and only if it splits in all of $L_i$. Does this also hold if the $L_i$ are not Galois extensions of $K$?  The proof that I know regarding the compositum uses the fact that the $L_i/K$ are Galois, so is this true in the more general setting and how would one prove it? Open Mapping Theorem: counterexample The Open Mapping Theorem says that a linear continuous surjection between Banach spaces is an open mapping. I am writing some lecture notes on the Open Mapping Theorem. I guess it would be nice to have some counterexamples. After all, how can you appreciate it's meaning without a nice counterexample showing how the conclusion could fail and why the conclusion is not obvious at all.  Let $\ell^1 \subset \mathbb{R}^\infty$ be the set of sequences $(a_1, a_2, \dotsc)$, such that $\sum |a_j| &lt; \infty$. If we consider the $\ell^1$ norm $\|\cdot\|_1$ and the supremum norm $\|\cdot\|_s$, then, $(\ell^1, \|\cdot\|_1)$ is complete, while $(\ell^1, \|\cdot\|_s)$ is not complete.  In this case, the identity $$   \begin{array}{rrcl}     \mathrm{id}:&amp; (\ell^1, \|\cdot\|_1)&amp; \to &amp;(\ell^1, \|\cdot\|_s)     \\                 &amp; x &amp; \mapsto &amp; x   \end{array} $$ is a continuous bijection but it is not open.  I want a counterexample in the opposite direction. That is, I want a linear continuous bijection $T: E \to F$ between normed spaces $E$ and $F$ such that $F$ is Banach but $T$ is not open. This is equivalent to finding a vector space $E$ with non-equivalent norms $\|\cdot\|_c$ and $\|\cdot\|_n$, such that $E$ is complete when considered the norm $\|\cdot\|_c$, and such that $$   \|\cdot\|_c   \leq   \|\cdot\|_n. $$ The Open Mapping Theorem implies that $\|\cdot\|_n$ is not complete.  So, is anyone aware of such a counterexample? Introductory Calculus textbook for physics? I have the summer to prepare myself for a high school calculus-based physics course; however, I will have to study calculus by myself. I've completed a course in precalculus and I'm beginning to read .   I am looking for a textbook that has mathematical rigor (i.e. not memorizing formulas), yet also provides adequate foundations for a physics course. From similar stack exchange questions, my top candidates are  and . Which one of these textbooks, if any, would be the best choice for my situation? Which experiments prove atomic theory?  Sub-atomic theories:   atoms have: nuclei; electrons; protons; and neutrons. That the number of electrons atoms have determines their relationship with other atoms.   That the atom is the smallest elemental unit of matter - that we can't continue to divide atoms into anything smaller and have them retain the characteristics of the parent element. That everything is made of atoms.     These sub-theories might spur more thoughts of individual experiments that prove individual sub-atomic theories (my guess is more was able to be proven after more experiments followed). I have Ubuntu 12.04 installed on my PC, recently I have edited /etc/passwd  and changed  user1:x:00:00:user1,,,:/home/user1:/bin/bash   to give root permission to user1 and the system always need to login as root, for running some custom software.  Now it seems the sound is not working, the volume icon is disabled. I understand that the pulseaudio demon can't be run as root that's why the audio is not working. How can I resolve it, like set the permission of pulseaudio to run as root.   When I type the command    /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start   Giving me the output  W: [pulseaudio] main.c: This program is not intended to be run as root (unless --system is specified). E: [autospawn] core-util.c: Home directory /home/user1 not ours. W: [autospawn] lock-autospawn.c: Cannot access autospawn lock. E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Failed to acquire autospawn lock   Edit   Solution for problem:  I have fixed the problem by disable root checking for pulseaudio equalizer  sed -i 's/exit 1/#exit1/g' /usr/bin/pulseaudio-equalizer The main effect will be non-significant if the interaction is significant? More section headings? I am a novice in LaTeX and I have one question.  Can someone tell me what if you want more heading's in LaTeX. Like 5 or 10 or even 15. Is there a package for that? How is stock price determined? Is stock price determined only by the last trade that takes place?  For example, if a stock I own is trading at $3.42, and I place a Sell Limit order for $0.00, will the stock price temporarily dip to $0.00?  Likewise, if I place a Buy Limit order for $100.00 for a stock that is trading at $1.23, will the price spike to $100.00?  Is there some sort of "average price" that is reported on the stock ticker?  Thanks for your help in understanding this! How to register my unregistered account Possible Duplicate:          I've been using my SO account for couple of days, but I am not registered and I do not want to lose all my questions. How can I register and keep my questions from my unregistered account?