Marcin Borkowski: Recent Changes

Updates since 2015-01-27 23:53 UTC up to 2015-02-26 23:53 UTC

2015-02-21

22:15 UTC (new) (history) 2015-02-21 Lorem ipsum dolor sit Emacs . . . . Marcin Borkowski – As many LaTeX users know, sometimes you just need some dummy text so that you can test a font, a layout or something like that. In such cases, the lipsum package (or kantlipsum, if you’re feeling philosophical) is really handy. OTOH, when coding things like Org-mode exporters, a similar thing for Emacs’ Org-mode would be also useful. So I decided to write lipsum.el. Well, but I didn’t write it after all. I googled first, and it turns out that I was late by more than a decade…

2015-02-14

20:26 UTC (new) (history) 2015-02-14 Counting visible characters . . . . Marcin Borkowski – There was a discussion on the ConTeXt mailing list recently about counting visible characters in a PDF file. This is easily reduced (by the pdftotext utility) to the problem of counting visible characters in a text file. Just for fun, I decided to do this in Elisp. I knew this wouldn’t be really a challenge to code it, but it might be a bit challenging to make it optimal.

2015-02-07

16:36 UTC (new) (history) 2015-02-07 Emms and transcripts . . . . Marcin Borkowski – A few days ago there was a question on the org-mode mailing list about using Org-mode as a transcript tool. While I do not do exactly this – what I needed was basically editing transcripts done by someone else, and they were rather simplistic, with no time information – I thought that sharing my (simple) config might be useful. Basically, what is needed is an integration of Emacs and a player, so that I can pause and unpause (is that a word?) the sound from Emacs. Also, seeking a few seconds back is useful so that if I didn’ (is that a word?)t understand something, I can easily go back to that place. Implement this, and that’s it.

2015-01-31

19:22 UTC (new) (history) 2015-01-31 The Return of the King . . . . Marcin Borkowski – I watched fragments of Peter Jackson’s The Return of the King yesterday. I almost forgot how good that book is, and how bad that movie was. Still, there were a few scenes which were quite powerful.

2015-01-30

17:29 UTC (new) (history) Komentarz - 2015-01-21 Tree Edit Distance . . . . Michał Jarząbek – "As a side note: many of my fellows working in mathematical analysis seem to be thinking that algorithms/programming/graphs/combinatorics are trivial . . .