' but thought I
should try the Linux community as well. I have been very quiet on this
group for many years !
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What about charmap(1), aka gucharmap and gnu-character-map ?
Works for me, though tedious and slow, for most varieties of the Latin
alphabet; but users who need to write continuous Norwegian (etc) text on
English keyboards will not be happy .
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still supported.
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The enlarged mouse pointer seems to have gone some way towards helping
my user's sight problem. Many thanks. John
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Sorry : I meant Tim not Terry.
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rsync for my own and my wife's backups, following a
recommendation long ago by someone on this list. Many thanks to that
person, whoever that was. John
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itself to fit.
If the target language is right-to-left or ideographic it's harder but
still within the scope of TeX.
I've read about pandoc and I'll be interested to hear from someone who's
tried it. I have mixed feelings about markdown.
Good luck.
John
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, and showing with uniq(1) that the keys weren't as unique as
they were meant to be ...
John
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, for it is used (IIRC) by fsck, the
program that occasionally checks the integrity of filesystems.
Best wishes for your trip abroad!
John
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referring and to what programs? Does it affect grep or find, for
instance?
TIA, John
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grep '^Ctrl-VTab' foo
Thanks Ralph ... very handy and preserves other functionality ...
sometime (not now) must study readline. John
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Can someone please explain why bash in interactive mode doesn't respond
to the tab key, and what workaround would they recommend apart from
starting an interactive /bin/sh ? (Ubuntu lucid, soon to be precise).
TIA, John
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Have just signed, seemingly as no.126.
Plenty of time for more signatures. John
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Ralph (and others) Thanks for suggesting mutt. I am very happy with CLI
and used to get on well with pine, so mutt being another branch off the
old elm tree is likely to suit me. pdftk is also good to know about.
Best wishes, John
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Can anyone recommend a MUA for Linux which (preferably) uses mbox files
and (most important) will ask the user for confirmation before sending
any message ? Currently on Evolution, but think it could do better.
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about but it's good to have someone else take the
small risk /and/ ask less money !
*Cohort Computers, Dorchester, prop. Trenton Oliver
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and I've
not tried it with any language other than English. At the post-editing
stage do check numerals carefully.
Good luck anyway.
Regards, John
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-substitution feature in bash;
it seems to have been added recently, perhaps in the last four years.
Have you got one that takes whitespace out of filenames ?
(Mine is in unpolished perl.)
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Sorry, I wish I knew as much about temperature sensors!
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/ innovation;
3 it is impossible in practice to avoid infringing them inadvertently;
4 algorithms are akin to theorems in logic or mathematics.
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), I'd be very interested
to hear how you get on. I use LaTeX a lot but not lyx.
BTW Chris Dennis did sqrt(A/b), above I did (sqrt A)/b .
Of course TeX can print either on one line instead of using \frac.
Best wishes anyway,
John
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