mgualt

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by mgualt 6y ago
Would this be useful for an academic research group?
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by mgualt 6y ago
Was this patent filed before or after the head of USPS was installed by the Dear Leader?
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by mgualt 6y ago
Is there a handwritten (stylus) notes software which can be used for this type of linking? I'm not talking about OCR, but handwritten/drawn as default format.
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by mgualt 12y ago
I'd be interested to see a description of the concept behind this -- it looks fun/pretty, but what is the concept and structure?
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by mgualt 13y ago
I'm certainly drawn to the idea and am inclined positively towards it. I'm even willing to overlook the ridiculous hubris of "This new medium will be the way most text is read and written in the future." However, there
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Ask HN: security vs. utility: admin priviledges
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by mgualt 13y ago
The 2011 video I referenced in my other comment was taken along Coorow-Latham road, in WA, with the same camera motions... Perhaps this one was also taken there?
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by mgualt 13y ago
Interesting utility, and kudos for making it OSS! Something I couldn't help but notice is that it is very similar to a short film which played at TIFF 2011 called "Coorow-Latham Road" by Blake Williams, a 20 minute video work which played i
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by mgualt 14y ago
This seems to work well -- I imagine I would use it if I were using a temporary computer, an ipad, or some such thing. What would be nice is if I could integrate it with dropbox or similar services, essentially use it to edit and compile f
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by mgualt 14y ago
Thank you for replying - I tried the new branch, and posted the problem I encountered as an issue with gists attached on the github.
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by mgualt 14y ago
I think my fontforge is the current version (see above) -- please correct me if I'm wrong.
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by mgualt 14y ago
Indeed, and I hope it stays out of scope forever. The idea of reflow is anathema to the idea of typesetting, as far as I can see.
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by mgualt 14y ago
yes - it crashes as described with any pdf file.
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by mgualt 14y ago
From my point of view, that's not really tex to html. That's tex markup to html. I am talking about using the latex software, whose purpose is to do typesetting. The amazing thing about this converter is that it takes the latex OUTPUT and
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by mgualt 14y ago
This is what fontforge displays when I start it up: Executable based on sources from 14:57 GMT 31-Jul-2012-D. Library based on sources from 14:57 GMT 31-Jul-2012.
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by mgualt 14y ago
I was able to install cmake, fontforge and libpoppler with homebrew, gcc-4.7 using https://github.com/sol-prog/gcc-4.7-binary
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by mgualt 14y ago
Amazing - I am attempting to install this on mac osx lion -- it is taking a lot of time because of the dependencies. With so many dependencies the probability of failure is very high. Let's hope it works. I urge you to find a way to allow
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by mgualt 14y ago
Very interesting - It would be great if the author could outline his overall goals and design ideas. What are some of the constraints on the PDF in terms of page dimensions or configuration? How is the math translation done? Does it use Mat
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by mgualt 14y ago
A couple of naive questions about the design of the security system: 1. Why is it possible to do the password tests remotely? Why would the key on the router be allowed to be transmitted? Even a 6 character password should be safe if you d
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by mgualt 14y ago
I emphatically disagree. In creating tutorials, the key is exercising restraint. This is especially important when dealing with Emacs, which is a classic case of an almost complete lack of restraint concerning the hierarchical organization
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by mgualt 14y ago
I find your post interesting, and it goes some way to answering my own questions. However, your post is based on the premise "There are four issues with decentralized, large-scale sharing of content between non-technical people..." and you
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by mgualt 14y ago
I would be interested to read a 'big-picture' description of what Tent is. Forgetting for the moment how it compares with competitors, what is the idea? I read the introduction but I feel that I don't understand it. From what I can tell,
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by mgualt 14y ago
Researchgate appears to be a private commercial entity, does not charge its users, and is not ad-supported. Private investors are funding the company. I have one main question: what is the business plan? I fear its users are going to be t
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by mgualt 14y ago
I will at least look at Knuth's book, though I doubt I will be able to make it work!
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by mgualt 14y ago
I think you are absolutely right, and this brings us to a daunting challenge -- how to plan and implement the document of the future...
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by mgualt 14y ago
In the TeX output, say the DVI file, we can (I presume, though I don't know any details) find all the information about detailed placement and size of all the characters and diagrams. This is provided in a certain format, according to cert
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by mgualt 14y ago
I think it is reasonably self-evident that one doesn't often find webpages with the quality of typesetting that one finds in many printed books. The TeX environment nowadays has hundreds of specialized packages which provide micro-typograph
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by mgualt 14y ago
Web layout is nowhere near the kind of typesetting required for professional quality documents and books. I am aware of mathjax, which is useful for embedding snippets, but this is still far from what I am talking about, which is a complete
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by mgualt 14y ago
Formatting for print? I assume you aren't talking about /actual/ printing on paper... the whole point of my question is that we need a new typesetting system for active and web-enabled electronic documents which provides as much control ove
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by mgualt 14y ago
I would be interested to know whether a version of the TeX typesetting program could be implemented in WebGL or some appropriate tool. I have been seeing a lot more HTML5 demos with unusual placement of fonts and text. So it seems a no-brai

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