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by adiM 11y ago
minefield vs mienfield
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Try ConTeXt. The float placement is much more flexible than in LaTeX. Being built on top of TeX, it supports all the math
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by adiM 11y ago
The Mughals were not colonizers. The definition of a colony is: "country or area under the full or partial political control of another country". The Mughals were ousted from Central Asia; India was the only country they ruled. So
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by adiM 11y ago
Reminds me of the narration in a National Geographic short documentary that I saw in the visitor center of Yellowstone National Park (recollecting from memory): "Lewis and Clark were the first human beings to set foot on this land&quot
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by adiM 11y ago
And even Hindus. I grew up in North India and I was taught to say thank you to friends and even to family members e.g., say thank you after being offered snacks (what would be called hors d'oeuvres in the west), offered a chapati or ad
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by adiM 11y ago
You do need to learn _a_ way to generate document. I don't see how the JS method is easier than, say, using a ConTeXt Lua Document (CLD). I'd really like to compare samples.
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by adiM 11y ago
Just looked at the sample on the playground section of the website. No hyphenation, no ligatures, and overall the output looks ugly (compared to TeX). What is the advantage over simply creating an appropriate LaTeX/ConTeXt document in
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by adiM 11y ago
I, for one, still use pine (well, alpine) for all my email.
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by adiM 12y ago
Growing up in India (different places in north India), I never saw a purple carrot, or a carrot of any color other than orange. I have only seen them in USA and Canada (not lived in Europe, so didn't know about it).
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by adiM 12y ago
Would it be possible to use CSS to draw glyphs using data from Metafont source files?
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by adiM 12y ago
Do Canadian universities hire "teaching professors"? Typically, professor also do research and (varying degree of) service (examining PhD theses, departmental and faculty committees, reviewing journal papers, etc.) in addition to
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by adiM 12y ago
Why not: return o2.compareTo(o1);
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by adiM 12y ago
And what social problem does FB solve?
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Would it be possible for you to add support to other TeX formats, in particular, ConTeXt?
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<sarcasm> Feeling lucky? Sure. What about the tourist visas? Oh I forgot. Americans and Europeans don't need them. </sarcasm>
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For anyone interested in how the solution is derived, one alternative is to use dynamic programming. For example, see these lecture notes: http://www.cim.mcgill.ca/~decinfo/courses/ecse506/winter-201...
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by adiM 13y ago
Don't know about the GP, but I have an iRex DR1000 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Reader_1000 ) which was perfectly sized for reading A4/letter papers. But it is bulky and has no wireless connectivity.
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by adiM 13y ago
“Computers Are Useless. They Can Only Give You Answers” -- Pablo Picasso
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From the linked Wikipedia article: > All experiments were conducted on PCs equipped with an Intel Core i5-2500K CPU running at 3.30GHz and 16GB of RAM. Why are these experiments not being conducted on a more powerful computer or a cluste
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by adiM 13y ago
As someone who joined the Internet bandwagon relatively late (circa 2000), whenever I see such reports on /viral growth/ of social website I wonder if email and usenet had a similar /viral growth/ in the 90s. Although th
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Is there a sample chapter or section available. I normally like to see how an ebook containing math looks like on the different devices before buying.
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by adiM 13y ago
For most people in academia, the incentive to work hard is not the fear to get fired, but the intrinsic satisfaction of working on a certain class of problems. Tenure does not take that intrinsic value away.
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> As for PhDs, I have never hired one. They seem to universally have an inability to think concretely or in a step-by-step manner. Could you elaborate on why you think that "PhDs have an inability to think"? If anything, I woul
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by adiM 13y ago
What is the advantage of rendering math as images when Mathjax works reasonably well on all modern browsers.
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The lines are not properly justified, so it appears that the output is not generated using TeX. I fail to see why would anyone choose left flushed alignment (with hyphenation!) when using TeX?
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William Adams ( http://mysite.verizon.net/william_franklin_adams/portfolio.h... ) is a typographer who has extensively used both InDesign/Quark and TeX. He has often posted his experience with the two in different t
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by adiM 13y ago
Have a look at ConTeX (www.contextgarden.net). It is a TeX macro package, just like LaTeX. But it is a MUCH more consistent syntax, heavily relies on LuaTeX, and can generate XML output (for webpage and epub) as well.
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None of those are "paperwhite" with the new reflective screen.
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How does it compare with Pandoc[1], which is the swiss-army knife of Markdown-to-foo converters, and also handles presentations. [1]: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/
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This is true for using plugins in any editor/IDE. Where do you draw the line. Should I use my own `.vimrc` file and set textwidth, formatting-options, indenting, etc. according to my preference, or don't tweak anything at all beca

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