Tuesday, March 22, 2016

VIDEOS

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPpk-1btGZk
2. http://www.webofstories.com/ (knuth,Freeman Dyson, Benoit Mandelbrot, Carl Djerassi, Stan Lee,...)
3. http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/2013/05/102658053-05-01-acc.pdf
4. http://scpd.stanford.edu/free-stuff/engineering-archives/donald-e-knuth-lectures (also check that the following video is in the list for one of the four channels that are there - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axUgEAgrSB8)
5. videos with knuth on numberphile
6. http://www.koszek.com/blog/2015/11/16/computer-history-from-giants-themselves/

Monday, March 21, 2016

CMap

\immediate\pdfobj stream file {t2a.cmap}
\font\aaa=larm1000
\pdffontattr\aaa{/ToUnicode \the\pdflastobj\space 0 R}
\font\bbb=labx1000
\pdffontattr\bbb{/ToUnicode \the\pdflastobj\space 0 R}
%\immediate\pdfobj stream file {t1.cmap}
%\font\ccc=ecrm1000
%\pdffontattr\ccc{/ToUnicode \the\pdflastobj\space 0 R}
%...

\aaa ....
при этом кодировки шрифтов должны соответствовать кодировкам CMap файлов.

Saturday, March 19, 2016

fstab

you need to run "systemctl daemon-reload" after changes to /etc/fstab
but it _should_ be possible to create a file monitoring service which uses D-Bus to do this automatically

Thursday, March 17, 2016

Chronology for cwebmac.tex

texhax fith: Mon Feb 1 09:35:34 CET 2016
first letter to Scherer: 31 January 2016 at 19:45
first letter to texhax: Wed Jan 27 23:52:52 CET 2016
first reply from ascherer: 1 February 2016 at 00:46
letter to Karl about second bug in cwebmac.tex: 25 January 2016 at 09:45
date of release of fix to first bug: 2016-01-20
first post of Scherer to tex-k: Mon Feb 1 11:51:41 CET 2016