Muli Ben-Yehuda's journal

August 1, 2007

Filed under: Uncategorized — Muli Ben-Yehuda @ 12:27 PM

Interesting reading on the dangers of corporate research labs.

I’ve been writing LaTeX lately as god^Wknuth intended it, choke full of mathematical goodness. The output is beautiful.

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  1. Unknown's avatar

    I wonder if the author actually intended to write “panty raid” or if that is a Freudian slip!

    Comment by unknownblogger — August 1, 2007 @ 9:53 AM | Reply

    • Unknown's avatar

      Since it’s a quote, one hopes it’s accurate.

      Comment by sneakums — August 1, 2007 @ 10:25 PM | Reply

  2. Unknown's avatar

    One thing I discovered when I was playing with TeX and LaTeX is that there is a big gap between what it gives you by default and what it takes to get the beautifully fitted pages you see in Knuth’s books.

    Comment by sneakums — August 1, 2007 @ 10:27 PM | Reply

    • Unknown's avatar

      My old resume started with this prolog:

      \hoffset=-0.25in
\advance\vsize0.5in
\nopagenumbers
\def\br{\hfill\break}
\parindent0pt
\parskip0.5\baselineskip plus 1pt minus 1pt

\def\section#1{\penalty-2000\vskip0.5\baselineskip{\bf #1}\par\penalty10000}
\newbox\leftbox
\long\def\table#1#2{{\setbox\leftbox\hbox{#1}\lineskip\baselineskip\lineskiplimit\lineskip\halign{\hbox to \wd\leftbox{##\hfil}&\vtop{\advance\hsize-\wd\leftbox\normalbaselines\relax ##}\cr #2}}}
\def\ipar#1{\parskip0pt\normalbaselines\advance\leftskip0.5in\relax #1}
\def\inset#1{\noalign{\ipar{#1}}}
\def\idt#1\par{\par\penalty1000{\ipar{#1}\par}}

\vskip\parskip

      Comment by taral — August 1, 2007 @ 10:31 PM | Reply

  3. Unknown's avatar

    I write plain TeX. Hardcore.

    Comment by taral — August 1, 2007 @ 10:28 PM | Reply


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