More behind the scenes changes...
Posted Jun 19, 2013 13:51 UTC (Wed) by
Cyberax (
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MySQL man pages silently relicensed away from GPL (MariaDB blog)
Posted Jun 19, 2013 13:45 UTC (Wed) by
job (guest, #670)
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MySQL man pages silently relicensed away from GPL (MariaDB blog)
More behind the scenes changes...
Posted Jun 19, 2013 13:30 UTC (Wed) by
anselm (subscriber, #2796)
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The problem is that TeX is pretty useless for complicated formatting.
Speak for yourself. I've personally used TeX to format all sorts of unusual and complicated things from CD inlays to magazines and complete books. »Useless« is a strong word to describe something that is very powerful indeed and often able to do things that seemingly no other piece of software can. I've talked to people who use TeX to make interactive PDF files out of gel electrophoresis scans because Adobe's famous tools couldn't handle the document sizes concerned.
We now have Markdown, reStructuredText and other similar attempts to do something that TeX should have made easy but haven't.
And guess what these tools do when publication-quality output is desired? Right. They generate input for TeX. Markdown etc. are good for what they do – making it possible to format simple documents for the web and printed output – but they really suck at complicated formatting.
And about hyphenation, I remember spending DAYS trying to find out how to make TeX to correctly hyphenate German text blocks
It seems to be a pattern with you to conclude that if you can't do something, nobody else can do it either. Consider that years ago TeX made it possible to hyphenate Greek text inside (right-to-left) Hebrew text inside English text correctly. Now that we have things like Unicode and OpenType fonts, things are only getting easier.
LLVM 3.3 released
Posted Jun 19, 2013 13:23 UTC (Wed) by
cmrx64 (subscriber, #89304)
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Wayland explanations are STILL confusing and worrying users
Posted Jun 19, 2013 13:05 UTC (Wed) by
Jonno (subscriber, #49613)
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Wayland explanations are STILL confusing and worrying users by nye
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The Wayland Situation: Facts About X vs. Wayland (Phoronix)
MySQL man pages silently relicensed away from GPL (MariaDB blog)
Posted Jun 19, 2013 12:43 UTC (Wed) by
armijn (subscriber, #3653)
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MySQL man pages silently relicensed away from GPL (MariaDB blog)
MySQL man pages silently relicensed away from GPL (MariaDB blog)
Posted Jun 19, 2013 12:39 UTC (Wed) by
Aissen (subscriber, #59976)
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MySQL man pages silently relicensed away from GPL (MariaDB blog)
More behind the scenes changes...
Posted Jun 19, 2013 12:35 UTC (Wed) by
Cyberax (
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MySQL man pages silently relicensed away from GPL (MariaDB blog)
Posted Jun 19, 2013 12:28 UTC (Wed) by
sebas (subscriber, #51660)
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MySQL man pages silently relicensed away from GPL (MariaDB blog)
LLVM 3.3 released
Posted Jun 19, 2013 12:21 UTC (Wed) by
Jonno (subscriber, #49613)
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LLVM 3.3 released
MySQL man pages silently relicensed away from GPL (MariaDB blog)
Posted Jun 19, 2013 12:15 UTC (Wed) by
johill (subscriber, #25196)
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MySQL man pages silently relicensed away from GPL (MariaDB blog)
Precision licensing
Posted Jun 19, 2013 12:14 UTC (Wed) by
pboddie (subscriber, #50784)
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Too many FUDs about Ubuntu these days by tzafrir
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Dividing the Linux desktop
Dividing the Linux desktop
Posted Jun 19, 2013 11:53 UTC (Wed) by
pboddie (subscriber, #50784)
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Wayland explanations are STILL confusing and worrying users
Posted Jun 19, 2013 11:52 UTC (Wed) by
nye (guest, #51576)
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Wayland explanations are STILL confusing and worrying users by foom
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The Wayland Situation: Facts About X vs. Wayland (Phoronix)
MySQL man pages silently relicensed away from GPL (MariaDB blog)
Posted Jun 19, 2013 11:51 UTC (Wed) by
dakas (guest, #88146)
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MySQL man pages silently relicensed away from GPL (MariaDB blog)
MySQL man pages silently relicensed away from GPL (MariaDB blog)
Posted Jun 19, 2013 11:48 UTC (Wed) by
grahame (subscriber, #5823)
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MySQL man pages silently relicensed away from GPL (MariaDB blog)
Too many FUDs about Ubuntu these days
Posted Jun 19, 2013 11:45 UTC (Wed) by
tzafrir (subscriber, #11501)
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Dividing the Linux desktop
More behind the scenes changes...
Posted Jun 19, 2013 11:11 UTC (Wed) by
anselm (subscriber, #2796)
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Meeks: LibreOffice's under-the-hood progress in 4.1.0 (beta)
As the briefest of glances at the LuaTeX web site would have told you, LuaTeX is doing fine and is being actively developed further. If anything the code has settled down to a point where the first books are coming out that expose LuaTeX to a wider audience, which is a good thing. There are reasonably busy mailing lists for developers and users. The project may not be as large and high-profile as, say, the Linux kernel, but to call it »pretty dormant« is basically denying reality.
There is »no real movement to make a TeX replacement« because apparently no such thing is required desperately enough. Those people who care enough about typography don't seem to mind TeX's limitations or else try to address them by evolution rather than replacement (viz. LuaTeX), while people working on similar tools apparently aren't interested enough in good typography to come up with something that rivals TeX's output quality (those projects that do take an interest generally use TeX as a backend for typesetting).
In particular, the office-suite people don't appear to worry about issues like line breaking and hyphenation enough to make use of the theoretical work pioneered in TeX 30 years ago or so. As long as that doesn't happen, TeX is going to stick around (and probably a lot longer).
More behind the scenes changes...
Posted Jun 19, 2013 10:35 UTC (Wed) by
Cyberax (
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Too many FUDs about Ubuntu these days
Posted Jun 19, 2013 9:53 UTC (Wed) by
ovitters (subscriber, #27950)
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Too many FUDs about Ubuntu these days by maxiaojun
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