P.S. Both homme and on in French comes from the Latin homo.
Yes, and the derivation of “on” from “homme” was apparently inspired
by the Early German construct Mann - man (that was maybe not spelt that
way at the time). Ironic, that now some advocate the use of “mensch” in
German to replace
Dne torek 27. julija 2010 ob 17:28:51 je Arthur Reutenauer napisal(a):
P.S. Both homme and on in French comes from the Latin homo.
Yes, and the derivation of “on” from “homme” was apparently inspired
by the Early German construct Mann - man (that was maybe not spelt that
way at the time).
* Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl [2010-07-27 16:15]:
On 27-7-2010 4:10, David Rogers wrote:
In academic writing especially, it's necessary to weigh the effect of
this distraction before using anything other than standard
constructions. Sometimes this kind of focus on the writer's personality
and
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 2:48 AM, John Haltiwanger
john.haltiwan...@gmail.com wrote:
Whether it is useless/'no problem exists' is not up to you to decide:
it is up to those who do find it important. As long as some people
find it important, no childish dismissals will remove that importance.
Dne torek 27. julija 2010 ob 18:33:34 je David Rogers napisal(a):
I'm not a regular reader of any scientific publications. I suspect there
are different de facto standards in different fields.
In legal texts we usually help ourselves with definitions in the beginning of
the text:
landlord or
Hi,
I uploaded a new beta that can deal with the new mplib. The biggest side
effect of the new lib is that no longer formats are made and that the
'format related code' (read: metafun) is loaded at runtime. In the
future I might optimize this but at the moment it's not needed. For a
while
On 07/27/2010 06:59 PM, Matija Šuklje wrote:
Dne torek 27. julija 2010 ob 18:33:34 je David Rogers napisal(a):
I'm not a regular reader of any scientific publications. I suspect there
are different de facto standards in different fields.
In legal texts we usually help ourselves with
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Matija Šuklje mat...@suklje.name wrote:
Personally I feel that the political correctness has gone a bit too far, but
where the line should be drawn, I don't know.
I can provide a few examples of where political correctness *has* gone too far
and can actually
On 26-7-2010 11:36, Martin Althoff wrote:
\definebodyfont [10pt,11pt,12pt] [rm] [tfe=Serif at 48pt, ite=SerifItalic at
48pt]
\tfe Big {\it Words}.
What I simply don't understand is the need for multiple font size declarations. I can
(kind of) see that it might be necessary (looking at
Am 26.07.10 11:36, schrieb Martin Althoff:
- when would I need to provide that information in typescript files I need to
create? (simplefonts is very slow to load fonts with phonetic symbols)
Can you show me a example where simplefonts is so slow.
Wolfgang
Dnia Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 01:06:27PM +, John Haltiwanger napisa#322;(a):
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 8:47 AM, Marcin Borkowski
mb...@atos.wmid.amu.edu.pl wrote:
Hi,
what an interesting discussion!
My personal point of view is that the so-called political correctness
is something I
Dnia Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 05:27:11PM +0200, Matija Šuklje napisa#322;(a):
With the so called Roma people, the problem is even bigger, since to my
knowledge Roma are just one of the tribes. So by having to call _all_ gypsies
Roma, you are effectively putting one tribe in front of the others
Dnia Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 09:53:18AM -0700, Rory Molinari napisa#322;(a):
I usually flip a coin to choose between he and she before I start
a document, and stick with it. (If I think the issue might be of
interest to the reader I add a footnote explaining this.)
I like that! Although I bet
On 28-7-2010 1:10, Marcin Borkowski wrote:
BTW, I know of at least two derogatory terms concerning my nation:
Polak (which is exactly what a Polish man is called in Polish) is
considered rude in the US, and polnische Wirtchaft is very
derogatory in German. I have to admit that I am not
On 28-7-2010 1:12, Marcin Borkowski wrote:
Dnia Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 09:53:18AM -0700, Rory Molinari napisa#322;(a):
I usually flip a coin to choose between he and she before I start
a document, and stick with it. (If I think the issue might be of
interest to the reader I add a footnote
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Marcin Borkowski
mb...@atos.wmid.amu.edu.pl wrote:
I like that! Although I bet that sooner or later some stupid feminist
will accuse you of cheating (unless you toss the female side more
often, in which case she'll be waiting for this tendency to change;)...)
Dnia Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 05:18:55PM -0700, Rory Molinari napisa#322;(a):
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Marcin Borkowski
mb...@atos.wmid.amu.edu.pl wrote:
I like that! Although I bet that sooner or later some stupid feminist
will accuse you of cheating (unless you toss the female side
* Marcin Borkowski mb...@atos.wmid.amu.edu.pl [2010-07-28 00:57]:
Dnia Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 01:06:27PM +, John Haltiwanger napisa#322;(a):
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 8:47 AM, Marcin Borkowski
mb...@atos.wmid.amu.edu.pl wrote:
Hi,
what an interesting discussion!
My personal point of view
As someone new to Context, I am trying to get to grips with font handling.
Reading through a fair amount of documentation it is not always to clear to me
what recommended practice in todays Luatex/MKIV enviroment is.
My setup is Minimals updated 26.7.2010 (luatex 0.60.2, MTXrun 2010.07.22)
On Monday 26 July 2010 01:47:13 David Rogers wrote:
* Matija Šuklje mat...@suklje.name [2010-07-25 23:33]:
-.-.-
P.S. Is there a nicer wording then (s)he for referencing persona in
unisex gender (other then one)?
The correct unisex pronoun is he. This whole question is an invented
problem
Hi,
what an interesting discussion!
My personal point of view is that the so-called political correctness
is something I actively fight against, by means of NOT using they or
Afroamericans or other such strange inventions. These new words
somehow remind me of Orwell's 1984...
Regards
--
Hi Hans, hi guys,
thanks for the explanation!
Does this mean that each time I want to change the font size of the text (e.g.
for a floating object or framed text) I must do this manually for mathematics?
or is there a way to adopt the font size of the text to mathematics? see below
for an
Hi everybody,
I'm new to ConTeXt and need a little expert help. When I'm running the
following 'test.tex' file
\starttext
\placeformula
\startformulas
\startformula
\startalign
\NC A \NC = B \NR[+]
\NC C \NC = D \NR[+]
\stopalign
\stopformula
\startformula E \stopformula
On 07/27/2010 02:21 PM, Julian Becker wrote:
I get the following errors:
systems : begin file test.tex at line 1
! Missing $$ inserted.
to be read again
\Ustopdisplaymath
This is a bug in luatex that will be fixed in the next beta,
it is not your fault. Until then, this
Thanks a lot, this did the trick.
best regards, Julian
2010/7/27 Taco Hoekwater t...@elvenkind.com
On 07/27/2010 02:21 PM, Julian Becker wrote:
I get the following errors:
systems : begin file test.tex at line 1
! Missing $$ inserted.
to be read again
\Ustopdisplaymath
On 27-7-2010 1:40, Armin Varmaz wrote:
Hi Hans, hi guys,
thanks for the explanation!
Does this mean that each time I want to change the font size of the text (e..g.
for a floating object or framed text) I must do this manually for mathematics?
or is there a way to adopt the font size of
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 8:47 AM, Marcin Borkowski
mb...@atos.wmid.amu.edu.pl wrote:
Hi,
what an interesting discussion!
My personal point of view is that the so-called political correctness
is something I actively fight against, by means of NOT using they or
Afroamericans or other such
On 27-7-2010 3:06, John Haltiwanger wrote:
I for one have always thought it would be interesting to develop a
Unicode character that provides a symbol representing a neutral gender
pronoun. Then, anyone reading can insert he/she or another option to
their own taste.
Interesting ... if we can
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote:
On 27-7-2010 3:06, John Haltiwanger wrote:
I for one have always thought it would be interesting to develop a
Unicode character that provides a symbol representing a neutral gender
pronoun. Then, anyone reading can insert
... When I remove + and /^ from general gender symbols
O
+
and
^
/
O
I get simply 0, so why not use this for (wo)man in general :)
Lukas
On Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:17:51 +0200, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote:
On 27-7-2010 3:06, John Haltiwanger wrote:
I for one have always thought it
I for one have always thought it would be interesting to develop a
Unicode character that provides a symbol representing a neutral gender
pronoun.
Unicode encodes scripts, not languages, so that's outside of its
scope. Even if you were to develop a new character that would function
as a
On 07/27/2010 03:26 PM, Procházka Lukáš wrote:
... When I remove + and /^ from general gender symbols
O
+
and
^
/
O
I get simply 0, so why not use this for (wo)man in general :)
This actually exists as Unicode character U+26AA, but its purpose
is to mark 'sexless' which is not the quite
* John Haltiwanger john.haltiwan...@gmail.com [2010-07-27 13:06]:
'Political correctness' can be onerous, and often contradictory to my
anti-authoritarian nature, but in the end it is not the Man who
issues requests for language changes so much as the marginalized
groups that take issue with
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Arthur Reutenauer
arthur.reutena...@normalesup.org wrote:
I for one have always thought it would be interesting to develop a
Unicode character that provides a symbol representing a neutral gender
pronoun.
Unicode encodes scripts, not languages, so that's
On 27-7-2010 4:10, David Rogers wrote:
In academic writing especially, it's necessary to weigh the effect of
this distraction before using anything other than standard
constructions. Sometimes this kind of focus on the writer's personality
and politics may be welcome, or even necessary; but in
I don't see how this applies: there are plenty of characters provided
by Unicode that can be used regardless of which language I am writing
in..
Yes, but they're symbols, not letters (nor ideographs or characters
from a syllabary, etc.); and they're even less words. Are you
suggesting we
Dne torek 27. julija 2010 ob 15:26:22 je Procházka Lukáš napisal(a):
I get simply 0, so why not use this for (wo)man in general :)
Hmmm, this could work. You could pronounce it simply as O. I already
represents the first person, so O shouldn't be too weird to represent the
unisex third person,
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Jano Kula jano.k...@tiscali.cz wrote:
Hello to everybody!
There are few weeks left till the 4th ConTeXt Meeting on September 13-18,
2010 in Brejlov, Czech Republic.
We have collected interesting talks and tutorials (25+) on ConTeXt, LuaTeX,
Lua, fonts,
Dne torek 27. julija 2010 ob 15:06:27 je John Haltiwanger napisal(a):
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 8:47 AM, Marcin Borkowski
mb...@atos.wmid.amu.edu.pl wrote:
Hi,
what an interesting discussion!
My personal point of view is that the so-called political correctness
is something I
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