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A How-to Guide to Font Selection

Motivation. There are two practical considerations to move beyond the default fonts. First, defaults are designed to be universally applicable, which inevitably makes them suboptimal for specific situations. Different types of texts—such as research papers, technical manuals, personal blogs, or software user interfaces—require different fonts to establish the right tone and clearly convey meaning without distracting their readers. Second, from a practical standpoint, most fonts are created to support only a limited subset of characters and styles. In practice, we have to deal with coverage issues and need to pair fonts to handle a wide range of characters, especially in non-English texts.

Install, Configure, and Use WSL on Windows 11

For me, WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) is the answer for working in both Linux and Windows environments. It works by running a Linux virtual machine within Windows. Although it's not perfect—nothing in the world is—WSL does a reasonably good job.

Write Citations in Org and Export to LaTeX

Motivation. This post considers handling citations in Org, generating nicely formatted reference entries in HTML, and exporting to LaTeX directly with properly generated Bib(La)TeX citation commands.

A Repository for Future Tasks

Motivation. Store potential future tasks and rank them based on priority. Many ideas aren't worth pursuing immediately and could be stored for future consideration. To avoid being overwhelmed by an ever-growing list of such tasks, consider ranking them by priority.

Display Unicode Characters in Emacs

Motivation. I prefer Unicode symbols over LaTeX sequences. In this old post , I discussed how to display LaTeX commands as Unicode symbols in Emacs. However, after applying these settings, my Emacs renders both \mathcal{A} and \mathscr{A} identically as the U+1D4D0 character from the Libertinus Math font.