attention went elsewhere. I still
love the program, though, and am glad to see development continue.
--
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__o | And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all
_`\(,_ | mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so
(_)/ (_) | that I co
ou, too.
Getting LyX to run justifies, for me, switching to OZ on the Zaurus. I can't
live without it.
--
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__o | Some people used to claim that, if enough monkeys sat in front
_`\(,_ | of enough typewriters and typed long enough, eventually one of
(_)/ (_) | them
ot foamier with the type of
> counter so i could not change it by my-self.
It should be
\setcounter{exercise]{7}
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__o | Accept risk. Accept responsibility. Put a lawyer out of
_`\(,_ | business.
(_)/ (_) |
On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 21:23:44 -0400
"David L. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Oct 2005 01:13:55 +0200
> Hannan Sadar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am using Document class: article (AMS,sequential numbering).
>
rs?
I just looked, and it should be
\setcounter{xca}{7}
that acutually worked... In general, these things are defined in
/usr/share/lyx/layouts/amsmaths-seq.inc. Sorry for the bad advice earlier.
--
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__o | "Business!" cried the Ghost. "Mankind was my busin
l
glory"; for that you would, I presume, have to do it all in ERT.
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__o | You will say Christ saith this and the apostles say this; but
_`\(,_ | what canst thou say? -- George Fox.
(_)/ (_) |
). You can make
new ones, with translated titles, for each of the languages you want. Other
label strings on other layout files may also be language-specific. I never
have installed LyX for a language different from US/English, so I don't know
what is already done to translate layouts.
--
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__o | Accept risk. Accept responsibility. Put a lawyer out of
_`\(,_ | business.
(_)/ (_) |
s
related.
But there are *.deb packages on lyx.org, which installed just fine.
--
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__o | When you are up to your ass in alligators, it's hard to remember
_`\(,_ | that your initial objective was to drain the swamp. -- LBJ
(_)/ (_) |
printer
access, so just being able to edit documents, then move them to another
computer to print, is fine. IMO there should be the option of using LyX
without TeX.
--
David L. Johnson
__o | Enron's slogan: Respect, Communication, Integrity, and
_`\(,_ | Excellence.
(_)/ (_) |
free for Linux, I am afraid to tell you.
That's odd. I downloaded it 2 days ago. Now, I have yet to install it, but
it seems to be the real thing. IMO MuPad is nice (especially the graphics),
but since I get Maple through work I haven't been motivated to use it.
--
David L. Jo
any places, so I wrote a makefile to generate all the
> required PDFs without human intervention).
Try adding a second Latex run into that makefile.
--
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__o | "Business!" cried the Ghost. "Mankind was my business. The
_`\(,_ | common welfare was my business;
7;t supposed to do that.
>
> Why, when I erased the entire paragraph containing this string and
> retyped it, did the textmf string REAPPEAR in exactly the same
> place??
Because you typed it in the same way.
--
David L. Johnson
__o | "A foolish consistency is t
en
hitting math mode. This allows the insertion of bits of TeX text properly in
LyX.
--
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__o | Some people used to claim that, if enough monkeys sat in front
_`\(,_ | of enough typewriters and typed long enough, eventually one of
(_)/ (_) | them would reproduce the col
ox{} or
> \text{} for something which is more like a word.
I believe the advantage will be for entering more than one word, with spaces
and all. At any rate, the simple toggle to insert text this way means that
that is what I have been doing for years with it, to no ill effect.
--
David
ior for amsart. Only section
headings get their own line. That it appears on a separate line in LyX is
arguably a limitation of LyX, but not, in my mind, a serious one.
--
David L. Johnson
Lehigh University
t least worth a try. One thing to check is
how whatever browser you have with the PDA handles the code. I will send you
a sample output by e-mail.
LyX should be able to be re-configured to use tth instead of whatever you are
using.
--
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__o | Accept risk. Accept responsibility. Put a lawyer out of
_`\(,_ | business.
(_)/ (_) |
ly in the
printout the quotes are done correctly (in any style) with the
inversions you want, at least it is correct for me. They don't appear
as nicely on the LyX screen, but as long as the printout is good that
should be allright.
--
David L. Johnson
It is probable that televisio
format, the quotes got converted that way.
Here is a file with examples of quotes. For the correctly typeset ones,
I just type ". Lyx converts the strings as you see, by converting the "
to `` or '' depending upon position, which then TeX understands.
--
David L. Johnso
turn it on on a new
document, or new inset in an existing document.
Where did it go?
--
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Become MicroSoft-free forever. Ask me how.
o remove the inset and replace it in between the words.
I know it worked the way I expected in 1.4.3; since I have been doing
solutions to HW this way all Summer session, until just now (I got 1.4.4
a couple days ago).
What happened, and was it intentional?
--
David L. Johnson
When you ar
t
whoever changed the behavior did not update.
Anyway, just on a whim I entered \displaystyle in a math inset, and a
subinset appeared. Putting stuff in that subinset magically put it in
displaystyle font.
--
David L. Johnson
"Business!" cried the Ghost. "Mankind was my bus
number between
sections. There were 9 statements in the previous sections.
I don't know when this first appeared, but I would guess that it was
fairly recently, either in 1.4.4 or 1.4.3.
If this is not a known problem, I will post a sample file illustrating it.
--
David L. Johnson
Some p
that some graphics did not show up on xdvi, but the
text was much cleaner (under linux) than pdf previews, and ps previews
seems to be overkill.
Or, did I just have some bad configuration somewhere? I built it
directly from the source on lyx.org. Machine: debian sid x86.
--
David L.
you can do it in raw TeX you
can put it in ERT, or use a macro to make that simpler.
The smart-ass answer would be to change your notation...
--
David L. Johnson
Let's not escape into mathematics. Let's stay with reality.
-- Michael Crichton
pear on the output.
--
David L. Johnson
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by
little statesmen and philosophers and divines."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
that did not reset the
secondary number from section to section, so if you had 4 theorems in
section 1, the first theorem in section 2 would appear on-screen as
theorem (2.5). It did not print that way, though. Someone sent me
layout files that fixed that (maybe you?), but in any event those
chan
e includes.
At any rate, that's in the next wave.
Good.
And, lest I forget, thanks for doing the original hack!
And thanks to you (and many others) for making it actually work.
--
David L. Johnson
The motor car reflects our standard of living and gauges the speed of
our present life. It l
ents
usable by most people, and anyone with specific requirements outside of
those choices can always use some ERT or preamble settings to get there.
--
David L. Johnson
It doesn't get any easier, you just go faster.
--Greg LeMond
n dvi files, using xdvi. At the
moment, though, my graphics do show up in xdvi, so this may depend upon
either the version/capabilities of your dvi viewer, or the LyX version.
I presume the graphics appear correctly when you print, and viewing
within LyX.
--
David L. Johnson
It doesn'
already, is rudimentary. By the time I
come back, it probably won't be, unless I learn Catalan instead.
BTW, LyX was not an "English-developed software", Roberto. The original
developer is German, the math-insets were primarily written by a
Mexican, and there is this JMarc guy who p
erdus par les Francophones ;-)
Or for those who just don't understand the technical points being
discussed. No answer, in any language, will work for everyone. We live
with that.
--
David L. Johnson
I believe that the motion picture is destined to revolutionize our
educational system a
xport to latex and poke around with the file to
find the mistake.
--
David L. Johnson
Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics, I can assure you
that mine are all greater.
-- A. Einstein
Lance Simmons wrote:
On 10/4/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have no clue what this looks like, and perhaps others don't as
well. Maybe you should explain what you'd want, or post a link to
an example?
The example David L. Johnson posted earlier in this thread is the
sort of thing
ubuntu to install latex2rtf without worrying about the
dependencies, and it will probably work fine.
--
David L. Johnson
Some people used to claim that, if enough monkeys sat in front of
enough typewriters and typed long enough, eventually one of them would
reproduce the collected works of S
sons Paul mentioned.
I usually have better luck with ps2pdf than with dvipdf4 or pdflatex.
Also, it may print better than it displays.
--
David L. Johnson
What is objectionable, and what is dangerous about extremists is not
that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant.
--Robert F. Kennedy
For the first example, you will get better results in
general if you use \log, but I doubt that it matters here.
--
David L. Johnson
Let's be straight here. If we find something we can't understand we
like to call it something you can't understand, or indeed even
pronounce.
e dependent upon LyX
versions, but that is my experience.
--
David L. Johnson
What is objectionable, and what is dangerous about extremists is not
that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant.
--Robert F. Kennedy
adequately, but maybe it would be
time to update this output format. I just checked on my desktop machine
and it, also, produces the same old lyx format from reconfigure. On
that machine (debian lenny, amd64 machine) I compiled lyx-1.5.2 myself.
--
David L. Johnson
And though I have the gift of
subjclass[2000]
LabelString "2000 Mathematics Subject Classification:"
End
Do you bave an old ~/.lyx file around?
Of course, this just puts the problem off for a few years. It would be
really clever to change that subjclass[2000] name to auotmatically print
the right
ly changed text fonts, and it improved
dramatically. I can probably find what fonts I changed to, but it would
probably be better for you to just find one you like, and test it out.
I saw this mostly on my 64-bit amd and on my zaurus/debian sid.
--
David L. Johnson
And though I have the gift o
E/.lyx out of the way
and let LyX regenerate it, to no avail.
Any clue? Any help?
LyX version: 1.4.2 (also occurred with 1.4.1 and later 3.? versions).
OS: debian linux "testing" on amd64 and x86 machines
Problem file types: Any AMS document type with running heads.
--
David L. Jo
On Tue, 5 Sep 2006 10:51:44 +0200
Juergen Spitzmueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> David L. Johnson wrote:
> > However, in recent versions (I am currently using 1.4.2 under debian
> > linux), before either the author name or the title, on the running heads in
> >
having been taken for a word processor of some sort.
I no longer can find any of these old binaries. But, they were carved on
clay tablets, anyway, so I couldn't read them now.
I believe Matthias released his first version sometime in 1995. It did not
display math at all. All formulas were
ch has fairly new versions of those packages.
My current workaround is to export the TeX file, then comment out the babel
package. It then seems to work correctly.
--
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__o | Accept risk. Accept responsibility. Put a lawyer out of
_`\(,_ | business.
(_)/ (_) |
On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 18:13:18 +0100
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>>>> "David" == David L Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> David> On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 09:55:44 -0500
> David> Neal Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wr
ice.
Thanks for the suggestion. This beats trying to upgrade just a piece of the
tex distribution by snagging archives from CTAN, which for all I know would
screw something else up.
--
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__o | And what if you track down these men and kill them, what if you
_`\(,_ | ki
standard text between the two, then everything
> works fine, but this is an awkward workaround. Does anyone know a btter way
> to do this?
I always put a % in ERT (change to standard mode) between them. No need to
change what you write to accomodate the software
--
David
package. It might also be not a great idea
to distribute it, since that might not be compatible with the official one
in terms of dependencies.
Does Ubuntu come in various levels of "cutting-edge"-ness like pure debian
does? Maybe there is already a package there you could use.
--
item;
>
> Here, there is some standard text and then enumerate again.
>
> A4. The fourth item;
> A5. The fifth item.
As for the A1... I've never done it, but someone else will know how. To
continue the numbering past standard text, just increase the environment
depth of that s
you want mathematical help in setting up the graphics, ask me off-list.
--
David L. Johnson
__o | Let's not escape into mathematics. Let's stay with reality. --
_`\(,_ | Michael Crichton
(_)/ (_) |
ch has lyx-1.3.6 or so and latex).
So, again, which OS are you using on your machine (specific distribution),
and which package, if you are using a standard package, of latex (typically,
it would be tetex or texlive (my favorite)). What X fonts do you have
installed?
--
David L. Johnson
_
(as packaged in debian etch, at least). Absolutely no issues with
texlive and lyx. In what sense is tetex required for lyx?
--
David L. Johnson
__o | Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics, I can
_`\(,_ | assure you that mine are all greater. -- A. Einstein
(_)/ (_) |
not even have to reconfigure
LyX, as I recall, though maybe I did that as a precaution. This, by the way,
was with debian etch. I have since upgraded the distribution several times,
with no problem appearing.
--
David L. Johnson
__o | You will say Christ saith this and the apostles say this; but
_`\(,_ | what canst thou say? -- George Fox.
(_)/ (_) |
es not search through
the math insets (why not???), but only plain text environments. If I am
going to do a substantial amount of search/replace editing, I will open up
the *.lyx file in a text editor, and use its find/replace.
--
David L. Johnson
And though I have the gift of prophecy, and un
I use texlive and lyx-1.4.3, and have no such problems. Odd. What
linux distribution do you use?
I just wanted to see if anyone knew of any issues under ubuntu-edgy and LyX
1.4.3 with texlive.
Very odd. isn't Ubuntu-edgy essentially debian etch? That is what I use.
--
David L. J
That seems easier to me.
--
David L. Johnson
Deserves death! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death.
And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them?
Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement.
-- J. R. R. Tolkein
s MultiKey). I think this is even easier that ERT, and
the character appears as such on the screen.
John
Doesn't work for me (debian linux/american keyboard).
--
David L. Johnson
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on
no account be allowed to do the job. -- Douglas Adams
John Coppens wrote:
On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 21:13:47 -0500
"David L. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Doesn't work for me (debian linux/american keyboard).
If you feel like it, try to check if you have a file in your home
directory called .Xmodmap (it's a hi
awyer
claiming that there was a(nother) word-processor for unix systems with
that name.
Part of the choice of name, and spelling/case, was to be a bit ambiguous
with the allusion to TeX.
--
David L. Johnson
If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach
a conclusion. -- George Bernard Shaw
John O'Gorman wrote:
In the absence of a papal pronouncement, there will never be an
authoritative answer.
But there was, initially, such a pronouncement from Matthias. I was
just an acolyte at the time, but it was duly recorded in the scrolls.
--
David L. Johnson
Accept risk. A
t
then the equations don't inherit the section number. They are simply numbered
1,2,3...
Add to the preamble:
\numberwithin{equation}{section}
This ought to work; it's what works for the amsart class.
--
David L. Johnson
Some people used to claim that, if enough monkeys sat in fron
ed by (). Example attached.
--
David L. Johnson
A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems.
-- Paul Erdos
choose.lyx
Description: application/lyx
Lyx
used to support both environments, but a decision was made to only use
\emph{}.
Of course, it may be that Mac's do this with -i for other programs.
--
David L. Johnson
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not
certain, and as far as they are certain, they do no
lyx. I presume that will work.
Then, to save your fingers, create a symbolic link from lyx-qt to lyx.
IMO, the installation should have done that for you, and it should
have had you choose between one or the other toolkit rather than
cluttering up your machine with both.
--
David L. Johnson
. and more text
Just increase the environment depth of the intervening text.
--
David L. Johnson
If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach
a conclusion. -- George Bernard Shaw
sier to get the few LyX/LaTeX users to switch to MS
Word than to get the multitudes of MS Word users to switch to LyX, which many
haven't heard of, don't have, and don't know how to install.
This should be less of a concern for the likes of O'Reilly, who really
do support o
ng that an x
is multiplication, seeing as how x is also a variable. Algebra seems to
be confusing enough. You can also use \cdot to get a centered dot to
denote multiplication.
--
David L. Johnson
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by
little statesmen and p
correctly, but are shown in ERT. I can live with that, but
would prefer not to.
So, what fonts do I need to install to get LyX really working? If
anyone knows of a tetex or texlive ipkg file, I'd like that, too.
--
David L. Johnson
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,
bunto, not the Angstrom (zaurus) that I am setting up, so it will
probably work better for you. Ignore the windows-specific Readme file
in the package.
--
David L. Johnson
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by
little statesmen and philosophers and divines.&
Steve Litt wrote:
Hi all,
My next book will be a math book. I assume there are better document classes
to use for this than the book document class. What are some document classes
that are good for math books?
Try amsbook.
--
David L. Johnson
ago. Look through those documents and there will be examples, I hope,
of what you want.
--
David L. Johnson
It is probable that television drama of high caliber and produced by
first-rate artists will materially raise the level of dramatic taste
in the nation.
-- David Sarnoff, 1939
rence to un-make it?
I don't really want to downgrade, if I can avoid it. LyX is my
default program for writing just about everything.
--
David L. Johnson
A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems.
-- Paul Erdos
Make that blank line in
the standard environment, and put in, say, an ERT %, and it will be fine.
Or you could prove the first result...
--
David L. Johnson
You will say Christ saith this and the apostles say this; but what
canst thou say?
-- George Fox.
" toolbar for the styles popup, and set
"displaystyle". Alternately, under the Edit -> Math menu, you can set
"limits type" to display. The problem, though, with using displaystyle
in an inline formula is that you will force large linespacings around
tha
s not, of course, a big deal, since I can just ignore the warning,
but it is odd behavior.
--
David L. Johnson
If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a
conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw
On 03/15/2011 11:10 PM, Charlie wrote:
On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 22:30:52 -0400
"David L. Johnson" wrote:
It's not, of course, a big deal, since I can just ignore the warning,
but it is odd behavior.
It happens here as well, but only on the next save after the first
after one
is going on, this is a TeX issue,
not LyX.
--
David L. Johnson
Deserves death! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death.
And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not
be too eager to deal out death in judgement.
-- J. R. R. Tolkein
.
recompile PDF. This can
take a while and having a WYSIWYG mode could make this process a
factor of ten times faster.
No, in my experience it creates the "takes a while" part.
--
David L. Johnson
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by
little statesmen and philosophers and divines."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
the environment that is being used. If it is a
shortish file, send it to me and I will see what I can see.
--
David L. Johnson
It doesn't get any easier, you just go faster.
--Greg LeMond
installation may have missed
the spellchecker. The next thing to check is the "preferences" menu,
then look under "editing" for the spellchecker settings. Maybe it is
looking for the wrong spellchecker. This happened to me when I tried
out the continuous spellchecking.
Goo
ovide suggestions.
P.S.: Please reply to me personally, not just to the lyx mailing list.
Generally, it is better form, when asking a question of a list, to join
the list at least until your question is answered.
--
David L. Johnson
"What am I on? I'm on my bike, six hours a d
On 03/30/11 09:26, Pavel Sanda wrote:
- old
--
David L. Johnson
Let's not escape into mathematics. Let's stay with reality.
-- Michael Crichton
specific fonts that your people did not have installed.
This is common for us linux users. pstopdf gives, usually, readable
output, but text may not be selectable.
--
David L. Johnson
It is probable that television drama of high caliber and produced by
first-rate artists will materially raise t
endations.
As for the French term, I have a hard time finding a use case in
singular form. Even if only one person contributed, she would still
get 'des remerciements'.
As in English, even one person would get "Thanks", which is in a sense
plural (we often say "many
hat I can't easily find a way to do this with
LyX. What am I missing?
I presume you need the lines in the table, or else there is no reason
why you couldn't just use an enumerated list, which would do what you
want. But inside of a table, I don't know how to do that.
--
David
.
That works very nicely. It's be cool to add this to the table
functionality in LyX at some point, but this is simple enough to satisfy
the original request, I think.
--
David L. Johnson
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not
certain, and as far as they are ce
lled it LyriX. But my memory is that he also liked the
connection to the music term.
--
David L. Johnson
Arguing with an engineer is like mud wrestling with a pig...
You soon find out the pig likes it!
it is done.
--
David L. Johnson
Some people used to claim that, if enough monkeys sat in front of
enough typewriters and typed long enough, eventually one of them would
reproduce the collected works of Shakespeare. The internet has
proven this not to be the case.
ot;. It seems Lyx counted the example as a theorem also.
How can I fix this in Lyx?
You can change the way all such things are counted in Document ->
Modules. Try "numbered by type".
--
David L. Johnson
You will say Christ saith this and the apostles say this; but what
canst thou say?
-- George Fox.
American
English, should the opening matched single quote look like a six and the
closing one look like a nine? That's how mine is, although of course the six
and nine don't have actual loops.
I'm pretty sure that's right.
--
David L. Johnson
A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems.
-- Paul Erdos
een the two words by advancing the cursor across the
space. If so, then the issue is that the fonts used by LyX to
approximate the printed fonts are a little mismatched. This can depend
greatly on the OS (I would imagine, though I have only used LyX on linux
and aix), and on the display fonts c
rtially supported by blah.
The second author was partially supported by the blah."
It worked for me.
--
David L. Johnson
Some people used to claim that, if enough monkeys sat in front of
enough typewriters and typed long enough, eventually one of them would
reproduce the collected w
GB seems small nowadays is a sad reminder of how bloated some
programs have become.
Precisely for that reason I would not be in favor of an added spreadsheet tool
in LyX.
See also this link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feature_creep
I agree with this. LyX doesn't have to do everything.
-
phenomenon some years ago.
For me (using linux) the problem has not reappeared in some time.
--
David L. Johnson
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by
little statesmen and philosophers and divines."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
window has the focus, you
can use the shortcuts. But typically the focus would be on the main
window, and since that gets the focus the shortcuts would go to its
menu. So you have to use the mouse, no matter what, at least to shift
the input focus to the spellchecker window.
--
Davi
act using other systems or languages would have, you
should indicate what those parameters are. When you say it does not
produce a pdf file, does it give you an error message?
--
David L. Johnson
Deserves death! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death.
And some that die deserve life.
in LyX, but may work in
an external editor.
--
David L. Johnson
It is a scientifically proven fact that a mid life crisis can only be
cured by something racy and Italian. Bianchis and Colnagos are a lot
cheaper than Maserattis and Ferraris.
-- Glenn Davies
ing a critical event (such as a deadline to produce a document).
I did that transition some time ago, since AFAIK tetex is no longer
supported, and texlive is. I do not recall any problems with the
transition.
--
David L. Johnson
Some people used to claim that, if enough monkeys sa
eys to the ones
you use most often.
--
David L. Johnson
"Business!" cried the Ghost. "Mankind was my business. The common
welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence,
were, all, my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of
water in the comp
standard way to do
it in TeX.
--
David L. Johnson
Some people used to claim that, if enough monkeys sat in front of
enough typewriters and typed long enough, eventually one of them would
reproduce the collected works of Shakespeare. The internet has
proven this not to be the case.
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