Marcin Borkowski: Recent Changes

Updates since 2015-07-16 18:19 UTC up to 2015-08-15 18:19 UTC

2015-08-15

00:27 UTC (new) (history) 2015-05-23 Math examples in TeX, part III . . . . Marcin Borkowski – In the two previous posts, I wrote about my macros to typeset examples of math typesetting for the book on LaTeX I was coauthoring. I promised that there will be the third part of that series – so here it is.

2015-08-08

21:13 UTC (new) (history) 2015-08-08 Concatenation with indentation . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Quite recently, I was coding two (independent) Emacs projects involving generating XML files. I found the xmlgen Emacs library, learned to use it (well, it’s trivial: basically, it defines a mapping from the list structure to XML, and lets specify both tags and attributes in a natural way), and dropped it.

2015-08-01

11:53 UTC (new) (history) 2015-08-01 case-intern trick . . . . Marcin Borkowski – When coding in Elisp, sometimes it happens that you want to branch depending on the value of some variable, which can hold a few possible values. The C way would be to use an enum; the lispy way is to use symbols and case. However, sometimes you have strings and not symbols.

2015-07-25

10:39 UTC (new) (history) 2015-07-25 Multiple indices in a LaTeX document with splitidx . . . . Marcin Borkowski – An often requested feature in a book is multiple indices. Typically, there are separate indices of notions and theorems, of people’s names, and/or of symbols. Unfortunately (and unsurprisingly, I regret to say), standard LaTeX provides only one bare-bones index. There are of course a few tools to solve this problem. One of them is the splitidx package.

2015-07-18

23:12 UTC (new) (history) 2015-07-18 TLM vs EWOC, or there and back again . . . . Marcin Borkowski – I am currently working on an application in Emacs, which will (in particular) display some tabular data – very much like Dired or list-processes. Since I expected that the problem of displaying such tables is already solved and there’s no need to reinvent the wheel, I asked on the Emacs mailing list about such a utility. It turned out that there are two of them built in Emacs.