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  1. Re:Maybe you should try Lyx... by divec · · Score: 1 · on MS Thinks OOo is 10 Years Behind
    LaTeX is hopeless for anything that doesn't use a Latin character set.
    My housemate finds it very convenient for typesetting her PhD thesis (Egyptian hieroglyphs), using HieroTeX/Sesh.
  2. Mirror List by RobertB-DC · · Score: 4, Informative · on MSN Search Blocking Results For XFree86?

    Since it's about to get Slashdotted, here is the mirror list section from the xfree86.org site:

    Web Mirrors

    Our web site is very busy and often causes timed out connections. The following sites have been verified as being both accurate and reliable in their mirroring process, and so we recommend these for the best access:

    Costa Rica
    Copenhagen, Denmark
    Paris, France
    St. Denis, France
    Berlin, Germany
    Dortmund, Germany
    Athens, Greece
    Seoul, Korea
    Amsterdam, Netherlands
    Bucharest, Romania
    London, United Kingdom

    Not posting as AC 'cause the troll potential would be too high...

  3. Re:The best AI test of all: by rodentia · · Score: 1 · on Comparing Man and Machine?

    You either don't know Go or don't know AI. It is not a brute force problem and the difficulties in solving it are not a matter of popularity.

    Start with this paper. Frankly, NLP is far ahead of GO AI.

  4. Why don't you guys check out some (prior) Art? by mattr · · Score: 1 · on Peephole Displays

    Jeffrey Shaw, one of the most amazing artists alive. His EVE from 1993 and Golden Calf from 1995 (animation) seem to be good examples of this idea. Techies should study Art!

  5. Re:XML Overrated? by ukryule · · Score: 2, Interesting · on XML for Ancients
    When you're coding up ancient writing, you want to store much more information about each character or word than with normal text (colour, angle, depth etc.). XML is quite good at storing these attributes, so it makes sense to use it.

    Taking a quote from the heiroglyphics link (can't comment on the cuneiform link as it's /.ed):

    Let's illustrate these points. In the current MCD, data about an individual sign is scattered around it. Look for example at :

    =A1\\r1 -i

    It means "Sign Gardiner A1", as both grammatical and word ending, reversed, rotated. fine positional data, colour data, and more are hard to add. On the other hand, the current proposal would represent the same sequence as

    <hieroglyph code="A1" gramend="y" wordend="y" rot="90" reversed="y">
    <hieroglyph code="i">

    Of course, as with any use of XML, you could do it with a 'homegrown' solution, but the point is that using XML gives you a well known (and well supported) framework which everyone can standardise on. (And yes I know the XML in the example is malformed ...)