_Very_ interesting. Is the sub-set available somewhere?
In the past, I've copied ``Wikipedia-CD'' onto my pen slate (got tired of coping w/ Encarta 2003 constantly badgering me to up-date it) and enjoyed using it:
Rather than compare LaTeX to MS Word, it's far better to compare LyX, http://www.lyx.org/ --- I'm very fond of it, and think it's one of the most innovative opensource applications available --- maybe even more innovative than commercial apps as well.
And of course, no mention of (La)TeX would be compleat w/o suggesting people look at the TeX Showcase:
Savage-Rabbit said: >One is tempted to theorize that if western forces ever come up against an enemy >that fields top of the line air, naval and ground assets and into the bargain engages >in electronic warfare in a big way i.e. jams battlefield networks, UAV remote control >links, GPS, Communications, Radar etc in a big way in addition to blinding their >spy satellites and even shooting them down the US/NATO military will be in trouble.
Well, one can look back at history to see how the US military has done when backed up against the proverbial wall and out-gunned:
The Battle of Midway and the performance of Torpedo Squadrons 6 and 8 The Battle off Samar (a small part of the Battle of Leyte Gulf)
- Services don't work, so the app can't be extended w/ Services --- no auto-setting of capitalization as desired, no interaction w/ Address Book, &c.
- no drag-drop support, so one can't populate a field from text already on-screen w/ a select, click, drag, release.
- what about AppleScript? Can your app be used in an Automator work-flow?
I'm glad to have X-11 apps as a fall-back for when there's nothing native, but they're nowhere near as nice --- take a look at Nova Mind for an app coded in Cocoa, but available in Windows and Linux through GNUstep
Flash doesn't burden one with keeping track of nodes or only initiating a drag at a node (though it will indicate if a drag starts at one --- the only one I'm aware of).
And before Flash, FutureWave Smartsketch (on which FutureSplash Animator which was Flash 1.0 was based) --- my copy running on Windows dates from 1994 --- don't have a machine running PenPoint anymore, but I think my copy for that was dated 1992.
William (who will have to finish up his feature comparison chart of vector drawing programs)
Thank you. It's a public domain text though, and I only disabled printing 'cause I figured people should just buy a printed copy if they wanted a dead tree version (or they could've asked me for one of the spare copies I had until recently).
I converted my nasty Plain TeX hackery into LaTeX and made it available to Kaveh Bazargan for use in his presentation at TUG2005. Drop me an e-mail at willadams@aol.com and I can send that.zip archive to you.
The most significant bit of aesthetics in it though is the font, David Kindersley's Octavian which was done for Monotype and isn't freely available. I wanted to use Ares, but Dave Farey's digital revival wasn't available at that time. I've been wondering how it'd look in SIL Gentium though, and will probably investigate that as I get my practical TeX 2006 presentation ready.
``Moofie'' said: >my design skills are better when I have a computer to assist me.
No, your ability to execute a nicely finished design is enhanced, and the speed and efficiency with which one can work improves, but your design skills do not improve.
A good design is a good design whether roughed out on a napkin w/ a felt tip, comped tightly on a layout pad w/ a pencil, written out carefully and expressively w/ a broad-nibbed fountain pen, or as a contract proof done from film using a DuPont Waterproofing system on Glatfelter laid 60# premium paper.
When I interview designers, I ask to see thumbnail sketches --- if they don't have any in their portfolio I send them packing.
I almost bought a Timex perpetual calendar which has this feature, and a seven year battery --- but the thing is _huge_ --- glad I tried one on at a local store:
My first machine was a Radio Shack TRS-80 Pocket Computer 1 'cause it was the only machine I could afford (or find!) which was portable and had a printer --- somehow the desirability of printing on cash register tape strips is lost on me now.... In retrospect I wish I'd wound up w/ a Model 100 or one of the small Epson machines like to it.
Then I got a VIC-20, then a Commodore-64, then a 128KB Mac, then a GRiD Compass III plus which firmly brought me back to portables. Since then I've gotten an NEC Ultralite (the first one, w/ 4 or 8MB flash memory), Toshiba T1200XE, Sharp PC-6220 (just about a perfect machine), Epson ActionNote 500C, ThinkPad 755C, NCR-3125, Newton MessagePad 100, NeXT Cube, Fujitsu Point 510 and Fujitsu Stylistic 2300 (which I'm still using).
When I got married, I had my best man do the traditional thing and send a congratulatory telegram to my father-in-law (at an exorbitant price). They phoned in the message, then mailed the telegram....
The church I attended down in Virginia gave a ``Noah's Ark'' each year --- the letters, cards and pictures the priest would get from recipients were really charming.
Each recipient is also expected to donate in kind to others a certain number of their animal's off-spring. As a proof of the long-lasting nature of such giving, over half of the chickens in South Korea are descended from chicks and eggs donated by Heifer Intl. directly after the Korean War.
The original AD&D on-line Multi-player role-playing game, the ``Gold Box'' Neverwinter Nights on AOL wouldn't allow one to hit other players with melee weapons, but one was subject to spell effects, so PVP was the province of magic-users and clerics (with most people using a dual-classed human cleric/MU --- min-maxing at its finest).
They eventually set aside certain areas as okay for PvP, while in others it was forbidden.
All you have to add is a keyboard---put one in a nice portfolio case and it'll work just like a laptop (that's what I do w/ my Fujitsu Stylistic when I feel the need for a keyboard).
You might want to consider one of the old Fujitsu Lifebooks if you're dead set on having an attached keyboard.
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Here's one example of a machine the argument about running Mac OS X might make sense on:
d ge.jsp?pclass=ST5000
http://store.shopfujitsu.com/fpc/Ecommerce/PrdBri
Unfortunately, Apple still hasn't made good on their promise that discontinuing the Newton would result in interesting hardware to replace it.
William
(who wrote out this post on his Stylistic using RitePen)
_Very_ interesting. Is the sub-set available somewhere?
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In the past, I've copied ``Wikipedia-CD'' onto my pen slate (got tired of coping w/ Encarta 2003 constantly badgering me to up-date it) and enjoyed using it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia-
William
Rather than compare LaTeX to MS Word, it's far better to compare LyX, http://www.lyx.org/ --- I'm very fond of it, and think it's one of the most innovative opensource applications available --- maybe even more innovative than commercial apps as well.
And of course, no mention of (La)TeX would be compleat w/o suggesting people look at the TeX Showcase:
http://www.tug.org/texshowcase
William
Savage-Rabbit said:
>One is tempted to theorize that if western forces ever come up against an enemy
>that fields top of the line air, naval and ground assets and into the bargain engages
>in electronic warfare in a big way i.e. jams battlefield networks, UAV remote control
>links, GPS, Communications, Radar etc in a big way in addition to blinding their
>spy satellites and even shooting them down the US/NATO military will be in trouble.
Well, one can look back at history to see how the US military has done when backed up against the proverbial wall and out-gunned:
The Battle of Midway and the performance of Torpedo Squadrons 6 and 8
The Battle off Samar (a small part of the Battle of Leyte Gulf)
William
Have you looked at AppleTalk Studio? Reminiscent of HC.
Of course there's always http://www.runrev.com/
In other words:
- Services don't work, so the app can't be extended w/ Services --- no auto-setting of capitalization as desired, no interaction w/ Address Book, &c.
- no drag-drop support, so one can't populate a field from text already on-screen w/ a select, click, drag, release.
- what about AppleScript? Can your app be used in an Automator work-flow?
I'm glad to have X-11 apps as a fall-back for when there's nothing native, but they're nowhere near as nice --- take a look at Nova Mind for an app coded in Cocoa, but available in Windows and Linux through GNUstep
William
Flash doesn't burden one with keeping track of nodes or only initiating a drag at a node (though it will indicate if a drag starts at one --- the only one I'm aware of).
As I noted it's been this way since before 1992.
William
And before Flash, FutureWave Smartsketch (on which FutureSplash Animator which was Flash 1.0 was based) --- my copy running on Windows dates from 1994 --- don't have a machine running PenPoint anymore, but I think my copy for that was dated 1992.
William
(who will have to finish up his feature comparison chart of vector drawing programs)
A1:A7 was a necessary (computer) memory-saving expediency --- http://www.bricklin.com/history/intro.htm
4 371353?v=glance
Not necessary now though --- http://www.simson.net/clips/91.NW.Improv.html
At the very least, I know of one accounting firm which requires only named ranges be used in calculations --- (cited in ) http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/053
William
Thank you. It's a public domain text though, and I only disabled printing 'cause I figured people should just buy a printed copy if they wanted a dead tree version (or they could've asked me for one of the spare copies I had until recently).
.zip archive to you.
I converted my nasty Plain TeX hackery into LaTeX and made it available to Kaveh Bazargan for use in his presentation at TUG2005. Drop me an e-mail at willadams@aol.com and I can send that
The most significant bit of aesthetics in it though is the font, David Kindersley's Octavian which was done for Monotype and isn't freely available. I wanted to use Ares, but Dave Farey's digital revival wasn't available at that time. I've been wondering how it'd look in SIL Gentium though, and will probably investigate that as I get my practical TeX 2006 presentation ready.
William
If you mean:
.pdf up in the TeX Showcase, Okakura Kajuzo's _The Book of Tea_ which shows how nicely TeX can a compose page.
a phy/thebookoftea.pdf
http://www.nonluoghi.net/Bicicrazia/bici.pdf
It seems to've been done in OpenOffice.
That said, it's unfortunate that Scribus hasn't followed InDesign and made use of TeX's H&J algorithm.
For those who're curious, I've a similar
http://members.aol.com/willadams/portfolio/typogr
Serif used to be done in TeX and _The Free Software Magazine_ is, as is of course TUGboat.
William
The only one I'm aware of is FFES (Freehand Formula Entry System)
http://freshmeat.net/projects/ffes/
Not opensource AFAICT is Infty:
http://www.inftyproject.org/en/
William
``Moofie'' said:
>my design skills are better when I have a computer to assist me.
No, your ability to execute a nicely finished design is enhanced, and the speed and efficiency with which one can work improves, but your design skills do not improve.
A good design is a good design whether roughed out on a napkin w/ a felt tip, comped tightly on a layout pad w/ a pencil, written out carefully and expressively w/ a broad-nibbed fountain pen, or as a contract proof done from film using a DuPont Waterproofing system on Glatfelter laid 60# premium paper.
When I interview designers, I ask to see thumbnail sketches --- if they don't have any in their portfolio I send them packing.
William
Here where I live, everyone has a snow shovel and bag of ice by the door in winter - why not a small closet by the do or to store them in?
Most toilets have a plunger next to them- why not a small door or niche in the sink pedestal to store it?
Some people like to take their shoes off at the door - why not drawers to store them in?
I almost bought a Timex perpetual calendar which has this feature, and a seven year battery --- but the thing is _huge_ --- glad I tried one on at a local store:
http://www.timex.com/perpetual/
For the querent, Casio did an MP3 watch a while back, which seemed kind of nicely done (though also large).
William
(who wound up with a Timex Expedition in stainless steel --- should've ordered the same watch with the nifty Ingersoll face/brand though)
My first machine was a Radio Shack TRS-80 Pocket Computer 1 'cause it was the only machine I could afford (or find!) which was portable and had a printer --- somehow the desirability of printing on cash register tape strips is lost on me now.... In retrospect I wish I'd wound up w/ a Model 100 or one of the small Epson machines like to it.
Then I got a VIC-20, then a Commodore-64, then a 128KB Mac, then a GRiD Compass III plus which firmly brought me back to portables. Since then I've gotten an NEC Ultralite (the first one, w/ 4 or 8MB flash memory), Toshiba T1200XE, Sharp PC-6220 (just about a perfect machine), Epson ActionNote 500C, ThinkPad 755C, NCR-3125, Newton MessagePad 100, NeXT Cube, Fujitsu Point 510 and Fujitsu Stylistic 2300 (which I'm still using).
William
When I got married, I had my best man do the traditional thing and send a congratulatory telegram to my father-in-law (at an exorbitant price). They phoned in the message, then mailed the telegram....
He still has it though.
William
NeXT only had a two-button mouse (both the original, and the ADB version were only two-buttons).
h tml
http://www.channelu.com/Turbo/NeXT/mousekeysound.
Moreover, it configures by default that the right mouse button functionality (popping up the main menu) was disabled.
William
::applause::
The church I attended down in Virginia gave a ``Noah's Ark'' each year --- the letters, cards and pictures the priest would get from recipients were really charming.
Each recipient is also expected to donate in kind to others a certain number of their animal's off-spring. As a proof of the long-lasting nature of such giving, over half of the chickens in South Korea are descended from chicks and eggs donated by Heifer Intl. directly after the Korean War.
William
The original AD&D on-line Multi-player role-playing game, the ``Gold Box'' Neverwinter Nights on AOL wouldn't allow one to hit other players with melee weapons, but one was subject to spell effects, so PVP was the province of magic-users and clerics (with most people using a dual-classed human cleric/MU --- min-maxing at its finest).
They eventually set aside certain areas as okay for PvP, while in others it was forbidden.
William
Have you considered a Motion LS-800 Tablet PC?
_ ls.asp
It's spot on for everything you mention save HD (and which it's much, much larger than 20GB standard, 30 and 60GB available).
http://www.motioncomputing.com/products/tablet_pc
All you have to add is a keyboard---put one in a nice portfolio case and it'll work just like a laptop (that's what I do w/ my Fujitsu Stylistic when I feel the need for a keyboard).
You might want to consider one of the old Fujitsu Lifebooks if you're dead set on having an attached keyboard.
William
Actually, the GRiD Compass was in space before ever there was a Macintosh Portable:
r s/Ch4-6.html
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/compute
1983
William
GNUmail on Mac OS X _is_ a native app --- you get Services and everything one would expect.
For other platforms, that's a library issue and all it wants is for someone to put in the effort to improve it.
William
Try GNUstep, which is an opensource re-implementation of NeXT/Sun's OPENSTEP standard:
n s.html
http://www.gnustep.org/
It'll allow you to deploy on Linux, Windows, and possibly even the Sharp Zaurus depending on your project.
They even have a web page up clarifying a mention of it in Aaron Hillegass' _Cocoa Programming on Mac OS X, Second Edition_
http://www.gnustep.org/resources/BookClarificatio
It's licensed under the LGPL, so should be usable for most tasks.
William
Looking at news.google.com one can find a bit more detail from more familiar sources:
a .pirates.sonic.ap/
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/africa/11/07/somali
The 100 mile figure is that that's how far off the coast the cruise ship was --- the weapons used don't have near that sort of range.
William