On dim, 2003-01-05 at 10:33, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
When it will be installed ?
Since I've received no other feedback about altering or replacing texvc before installing it (and I finally have free time!) I will install it today.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
--- Tomasz Wegrzanowski taw@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
When it will be installed ?
I have listed a couple of minor problems and showstoppers on http://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tex_requests
I still think that it is inane to plan a whole plethora of backend plugins for various types of graphics, rather than simply support tex and be done with it, once and for all. The only argument that I have seen with any weight was that TeX is a programming language and therefore insecure; the counterargument is that TeX can be run safely without being able to read or write files it is not supposed to, and that its memory can be limited to eliminate DoS attacks. Planetmath and xxx.lanl.gov do just that.
I have given it my best shot, and if you don't agree, I can't do anything more than that.
It turns out that the one feature I need when editing math, namely commutative diagrams as on http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_lemma , I will not get. I guess I have to wait until someone implements an xypic plugin.
Axel
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On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 12:25:54PM -0800, Axel Boldt wrote:
--- Tomasz Wegrzanowski taw@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
When it will be installed ?
I have listed a couple of minor problems and showstoppers on http://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tex_requests
None of them is a "showstopper", and most important of things you list there: \left and \right - works since the very first version of texvc.
Brion: Please don't listen to Alex and install texvc.
--- Tomasz Wegrzanowski taw@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
most important of things you list there: \left and \right - works since the very first version of texvc.
I apologize, I must have missed it in the documentation :-) This feature can actually also be used to produce the case distinctions I complained about: <math>f(x)=\left{\begin{matrix}n/2&\mbox{if }n\mbox{ is even}\3n+1&\mbox{if }n\mbox{ is odd}\ \end{matrix}\right.</math>
Note that something goes wrong if one forgets the \right command.
Axel
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On dim, 2003-01-05 at 12:25, Axel Boldt wrote:
--- Tomasz Wegrzanowski taw@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
When it will be installed ?
I have listed a couple of minor problems and showstoppers on http://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tex_requests
Any reason these things cannot be fixed later, after it's installed?
I still think that it is inane to plan a whole plethora of backend plugins for various types of graphics, rather than simply support tex and be done with it, once and for all.
Can TeX draw arbitrarily specified maps of the world? Can TeX render SVG to PNG for browsers that don't support it natively?
It turns out that the one feature I need when editing math, namely commutative diagrams as on http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_lemma , I will not get. I guess I have to wait until someone implements an xypic plugin.
"Will not get" meaning that it still needs to be added to texvc, or meaning that there is some fundamental incompatibility between texvc and commutative diagrams?
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 12:50:56PM -0800, Brion Vibber wrote:
On dim, 2003-01-05 at 12:25, Axel Boldt wrote:
--- Tomasz Wegrzanowski taw@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
When it will be installed ?
I have listed a couple of minor problems and showstoppers on http://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tex_requests
Any reason these things cannot be fixed later, after it's installed?
You can read my reply on http://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tex_requests In one sentence: no such reason
I still think that it is inane to plan a whole plethora of backend plugins for various types of graphics, rather than simply support tex and be done with it, once and for all.
Can TeX draw arbitrarily specified maps of the world? Can TeX render SVG to PNG for browsers that don't support it natively?
TeX can do none of these.
It turns out that the one feature I need when editing math, namely commutative diagrams as on http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_lemma , I will not get. I guess I have to wait until someone implements an xypic plugin.
"Will not get" meaning that it still needs to be added to texvc, or meaning that there is some fundamental incompatibility between texvc and commutative diagrams?
It's rather "it still needs to be added to texvc". No real incompatibility here.
--- Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
On dim, 2003-01-05 at 12:25, Axel Boldt wrote:
It turns out that the one feature I need when editing math, namely commutative diagrams as on
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_lemma ,
I will not get. I guess I have to wait until someone implements an xypic plugin.
"Will not get" meaning that it still needs to be added to texvc, or meaning that there is some fundamental incompatibility between texvc and commutative diagrams?
I don't know if texvc is flexible enough to handle the rather bizarre syntax of xypic. If not, a separate plugin would have to be written.
Axel
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