Marcin Borkowski: Recent Changes

Updates since 2015-01-17 18:19 UTC up to 2015-02-16 18:19 UTC

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 . . .

2015-01-21

21:32 UTC (new) (history) 2015-01-21 Tree Edit Distance . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Today I attended a very interesting lecture on so-called tree edit distance. The lecturer, Mateusz Pawlik, who graduated from my university, has recently earned his PhD at Free University of Bozen-Bolzano in Italy and is currently working at Salzburg.

2015-01-17

23:28 UTC (new) (history) 2015-01-17 A quick-and-dirty hack with a dollar sign . . . . Marcin Borkowski – I sometimes yank some fragments of text into my LaTeX files. This creates some problems, which can be more or less easily solved by query-replace and friends. The real problem is with math formulae. In general, anyone expecting that copying a formula from a pdf and yanking it into a LaTeX file will Just Work™, will be seriously disappointed. Converting such yanked formulae to correct LaTeX syntax is a painful process. One can, however, use Emacs to ease the pain a bit.