I really like the new journal look. I think I’m starting to get sick again, confound it all. It started a few days ago, but I wasn’t sure if it was allergies or a real sickness. Today it wasn’t as bad as yesterday, so hopefully I’m getting better. I don’t want to go through another three-week sickness.

Remapped my Caps Lock key to Control by putting the following lines in my ~/.xmodmap:

clear Lock
keycode 66 = Control_R
add Control = Control_R

I like it. The Caps Lock key is much easier to hit than the Control key. Now to figure out what I want to remap the Windows and Start keys to… (I’m thinking Multi_key, using XFree86’s Compose functionality, which sounds pretty cool.) If your .xmodmap isn’t loaded automatically by X, by the way, you can put xmodmap ~/.xmodmap in your ~/.bash_profile. See this page and this one for more info.

Vim digraphs just got even cooler. I found out that if you’re editing a UTF-8 file, the list of digraphs is exceedingly long. I’ve been working on the Icelandic primer and this’ll make it a lot easier (before, I had to type in the four-digit Unicode code for each foreign character).

As I was working on the Old Icelandic primer I decided to convert the page images to PDF and to DjVu. It took a while to get them up in PDF (the details will be on the page before long), mainly because psmerge isn’t as nice as I thought it was. PStill is quite nice, though. tiff2ps and epstopdf are as well. Converting the PDF to DjVu was quite easy with Any2DjVu, and the result is very nice (and only a meg in size). As for the etext of the primer, it’s coming along fairly well (I’ve done 62 pages out of 111). I’ve finished the grammar section and now am working through the texts, which take much longer because there’s so much Old Icelandic. The glossary will probably take a while as well.

Wow, the PostScript saved by DjVu (if you print to a file) looks better than the original. I think it’s because it antialiases everything. I’ll have to try printing both and see which turns out better.

I decided to add a page for The Story of Mormonism as well.