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2015-03-06

• 23:59 UTC (new) (history) 2015-03-07 Professional therapy for your Emacs config problems . . . . Marcin Borkowski – The other day, abo-abo had an excelent post on his blog, whose title I will not mention since it contains mismatched parentheses and my OCD makes my head explode because of that. (Please, go read that post before you continue; it is not very long, and really worth looking at.) I have to say that the last sentence was just cute. After a while it occured to me that actually, Emacs can do that! (Well, sort of.)

2015-02-28

• 10:42 UTC (new) (history) 2015-02-28 Math examples in TeX, part I . . . . Marcin Borkowski – I’m currently coauthoring an introductory book on LaTeX. (Yes, yet another one. But apparently there are not that many of them in Polish!) Of course, one of the must-haves is a chapter on typesetting equations. What I wanted, however, is a way to enter them with preservation of the DRY principle.

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.

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