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2018-01-07

• 20:22 UTC (new) (history) 2018-01-07 A small editing tool for work with AMSrefs . . . . Marcin Borkowski – As I mentioned many times, I often edit LaTeX files written by someone else for a journal. One thing which is notoriously difficult to get right when writing academic papers is bibliographies. At Wiadomości Matematyczne, we use AMSrefs, which is really nice (even if it has some rough edges here and there). (BTW, BibLaTeX was not as mature as it is today when we settled on our tool; also, AMSrefs might be a tad easier to customize, though I’m not sure about that anymore…) One of the commands AMSrefs offers is \citelist. Instead of writing things like papers \cite{1}, \cite{2} and~\cite{3}, you write papers \citelist{\cite{1}\cite{2}\cite{3}}, and AMSrefs sorts these entries and compresses runs into ranges (like in [1-3]). The only problem is that most authors have no idea that this exists, and we often have to convert “manual” lists of citations into \citelist‘s. Well, as usual, Emacs to the rescue.

2017-12-31

• 06:34 UTC (new) (history) 2017-12-31 LaTeX pillory – macros everywhere . . . . Marcin Borkowski – A few years ago, my frustration with what people do with (or to…) LaTeX made me start a (now rather abandoned) series of blog posts (in Polish) with the common theme of a “LaTeX pillory”. The name is somwhet misleading, since I don’t really want to shame anyone – but I do want to put shame on some practices. This time I received something that is so terrifying that I decided to revive that project.

2017-12-24

• 05:17 UTC (new) (history) 2017-12-24 Merry Christmas . . . . Marcin Borkowski – It’s Christmas time again! Thanks be to God for keeping me and my family alive and well, but even more for taking care of us in sometimes quite astonishing ways. As usual, I wish all of you Merry Christmas. Let these days be devoted less to your everyday activities and more to the awe at the greatness of God who gives meaning to them. I hope that even if you are far away geographically, we will meet someday in the Father’s house. As the tradition goes, I will offer a decade of Rosary to all of you!

2017-12-18

• 22:38 UTC (new) (history) Comments on 2017-12-18 hierarchy.el . . . . Phil – Not entirely under the radar... https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2017-10/msg00676.html
• 16:38 UTC (new) (history) 2017-12-18 hierarchy.el . . . . Marcin Borkowski – A few months ago, Damien Cassou announced his hierarchy.el library. It looks like it went a bit under the radar in the Emacs community – I haven’t heard about it much since. That’s a pity, since it looks quite interesting.

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