Nothing poetic this time. Just wanted to report something in the hope this might someday save someones sanity .

Currently I’m working on my bachelor thesis and since I think of myself as a expert this has to done in LaTeX. So I’ve been writing for a couple of days and everything seemed nice and easy. It all started when I tried to create a table. No matter what I did, the table didn’t care for page margins or anything. I searched for any possible solution and tried everything – nothing seemed to work. It also didn’t matter what tabular-environment I used (tried: tabularx, longtable, supertabular, tabular*, …)

So out of frustration (after three f*****g days) I started throwing out my \usepackages and suddenly it worked. I narrowed it down to the pdfsync package. Well now one might ask “Wait! What has pdfsync to do with tables” and I can’t give an answer to that – because there is no logical explanation if you’re not a TeX freak and understand the fundamentals. Anyway – remove \usepackage{pdfsync} from your document and you should be fine.

Oh yeah – before I forget, I’m using TeXLive – have to actually – because I work on Mac and Windows – try that with MiKTeX Editor is WinEdt – and Syncing with SumatraPDF-Viewer works even after removing the pdfsync package – now isn’t that irony?

Hope this helps

Für Melanie – Ich liebe Dich!

Beautiful rose
the time of your bloom
has reached its crown.
Before soon
the grasp of decay
will reach for you.
Already the petals of your blossom
are abandoning their glorious colors.
Life is fading
from your radiant sight.
Corruption claims
the shining tint.
My flower is wilting
withering away to dust.
Your leaves are rotting slowly
From the tip of each leaf
to the stem, to the roots -
greedily, corroding your delicate features.
In this time my beauty
count on me to water your roots
let me be the soil for your existence.
Because to see you in bright shape again
and to heal you is my wish.
So I yearn to revive
the prime of your life.

“Man sieht nur mit dem Herzen gut. Das Wesentliche ist für die Augen unsichtbar” (Der kleine Prinz / Le petit Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)

You left in tears
and I don’t know
when I will see you again.
We made a mess today
but so we do quite often.
It’s just the way you went
without a kiss or proper goodbye.
You rushed away
left me alone -
but I don’t know what to do
when you’re gone.
I found your toothbrush
in my cup.
And even if I know
it doesn’t mean a thing to you
it makes me happy
to see your stuff
lying all about my place.
Sure it looks like hell
in here
But it gives me a warming comfort
that you will return to me
that I will see you
yet again.