Re: [9fans] Welcome to the 9fans mailing list

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Re: [9fans] Welcome to the 9fans mailing list

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Re: [9fans] Welcome to the 9fans mailing list

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Re: [9fans] Many bugs in eqn(1)

2014-08-13 Thread Rudolf Sykora
Hello, I'm somewhat disappointed about the troff software in Plan9. Yes, that's understandable... It seems to me nobody actually uses the software heavily here. I did few initial tests with eqn(1) and in addition to the TAB problem I saw that the root sign line and large brackets are not

Re: [9fans] OT: What linux has become

2014-08-13 Thread cam
http://lkml.iu.edu//hypermail/linux/kernel/1408.1/02496.html just when you think a given operating systems would not be bastardized any further, some genius fucks it to the next level. launchd/smf and a webserver as process 1... baffling, this is.

Re: [9fans] OT: What linux has become

2014-08-13 Thread dante
This is a valid observation, although as everything that has to do with architecture, hard to prove. (Don't use the P-word, that's reserved for Plato and Nietzsche.) I also have the impression that the trend set by the original Unix architecture (small, one-job components, generic interfaces)

Re: [9fans] Welcome to the 9fans mailing list

2014-08-13 Thread Nick LaForge
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Re: [9fans] Welcome to the 9fans mailing list

2014-08-13 Thread Nick LaForge
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Re: [9fans] Many bugs in eqn(1)

2014-08-13 Thread Rudolf Sykora
Dear Carsten, first, I don't understand German (I am Czech), but I used google translate, hopefully getting the meaning. Second, it's generally better (unless it's really personal or highly technical) to keep the discussion within the mailing list, since then other people can also contribute; I

Re: [9fans] OT: What linux has become

2014-08-13 Thread tlaronde
On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 10:02:46AM +0200, dante wrote: [...] I also have the impression that the trend set by the original Unix architecture (small, one-job components, generic interfaces) is nowadays replaced in many areas with integrated solutions (frameworks) that provide non-separable

Re: [9fans] OT: What linux has become

2014-08-13 Thread hiro
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Re: [9fans] Many bugs in eqn(1)

2014-08-13 Thread cam
sorry, i am unable to help with this specific problem. i only use the ms macros and use tex for anything more. however, just fyi: Further there is a licencing issue on (I think) Lucida fonts (which can be only used on p9 but not on p9p), the license for the lucida* fonts prohibits the

Re: [9fans] Many bugs in eqn(1)

2014-08-13 Thread tlaronde
On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 03:30:37AM -0700, c...@9.squish.org wrote: sorry, i am unable to help with this specific problem. i only use the ms macros and use tex for anything more. Does anyone know if there has been any effort to use TeX and al. for the system typesetting i.e. the manpages

Re: [9fans] Many bugs in eqn(1)

2014-08-13 Thread Carsten Kunze
first, I don't understand German (I am Czech), but I used google translate, hopefully getting the meaning. Sorry for that! Second, it's generally better (unless it's really personal or highly technical) to keep the discussion within the mailing list, since then other people can also

Re: [9fans] Many bugs in eqn(1)

2014-08-13 Thread Rudolf Sykora
On 13 August 2014 12:57, Carsten Kunze carsten.ku...@arcor.de wrote: Since nobody seems to use troff on P9 I regarded it as off-topic. The traffic is low enough to discuss any matter related to p9(p) here, I believe. And it can be used as a back-reference in the future.

Re: [9fans] Many bugs in eqn(1)

2014-08-13 Thread Carsten Kunze
http://9fans.net/archive/?q=sykora+eqngo=Grep I can't believe that TeX should not produce better results, but thats really OT... I don't understand what you mean. I refer to http://9fans.net/archive/2011/12/113. I would expect TeX to produce the best math results. But this should not

Re: [9fans] Many bugs in eqn(1)

2014-08-13 Thread Carsten Kunze
Does anyone know if there has been any effort to use TeX and al. for the system typesetting i.e. the manpages and docs? (Translation of the troff macros to TeX ones etc.---not to mention that for TeX (kerTeX), it needs to be converted for utf-8 input; that's on my TODO list but I need to

[9fans] The developers of Plan9 think there was no point in coding in binary code three years ago as they did or make the Riga Technical University and University of Latvia?

2014-08-13 Thread françai s
What are the programming languages ​​that were used to develop the Plan9? Probably the Riga Technical University and University of Latvia continue teaching coding in binary code, ie, machine language. I say this because about three years ago the Riga Technical University and University of Latvia

Re: [9fans] Many bugs in eqn(1)

2014-08-13 Thread Rudolf Sykora
On 13 August 2014 14:16, Carsten Kunze carsten.ku...@arcor.de wrote: http://9fans.net/archive/?q=sykora+eqngo=Grep I can't believe that TeX should not produce better results, but thats really OT... I don't understand what you mean. I refer to http://9fans.net/archive/2011/12/113. I

Re: [9fans] Many bugs in eqn(1)

2014-08-13 Thread Carsten Kunze
Still I don't get what you mean. In that message we say 1) quality of TeX typesetting is better, 2) the way the equation is written (the syntax) in eqn feels better to me. Ok, I got that wrong. Just to be sure. I don't mean readability of documents to be typeset. I mean the source code of

Re: [9fans] Many bugs in eqn(1)

2014-08-13 Thread tlaronde
On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 02:22:00PM +0200, Carsten Kunze wrote: Is this really necessary for the system documentation? AFAIK P9 nroff/troff can handle utf-8. If there are problems with *roff they should be solved. *roff is a Bell Labs documentation system--it should be used for P9--IMO.

Re: [9fans] Many bugs in eqn(1)

2014-08-13 Thread tlaronde
On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 03:13:38PM +0200, Rudolf Sykora wrote: Just to be sure. I don't mean readability of documents to be typeset. I mean the source code of the whole system. I.e., in the case of LaTeX, the readability/understanding/hackability of the macros' definitions. And this links

Re: [9fans] The developers of Plan9 think there was no point in coding in binary code three years ago as they did or make the Riga Technical University and University of Latvia?

2014-08-13 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting françai s romaper...@gmail.com: What are the programming languages ​​that were used to develop the Plan9? Probably the Riga Technical University and University of Latvia continue teaching coding in binary code, ie, machine language. I say this because about three years ago the Riga

Re: [9fans] The developers of Plan9 think there was no point in coding in binary code three years ago as they did or make the Riga Technical University and University of Latvia?

2014-08-13 Thread erik quanstrom
I say this because about three years ago the Riga Technical University and University of Latvia continued teaching coding in binary code, ie, machine language. that's great! very vew people understand how any machine really works. it might not be something one can readily apply to another

Re: [9fans] The developers of Plan9 think there was no point in coding in binary code three years ago as they did or make the Riga Technical University and University of Latvia?

2014-08-13 Thread tlaronde
On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 11:06:23AM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote: I say this because about three years ago the Riga Technical University and University of Latvia continued teaching coding in binary code, ie, machine language. that's great! very vew people understand how any machine

Re: [9fans] OT: What linux has become

2014-08-13 Thread lucio
Are there still human beings believing that progress is a function of chronology: the newer, the better? I think there are many who believe that everything they find stressful in the present will be taken care of in the next technological iteration. Lucio.

Re: [9fans] The developers of Plan9 think there was no point in coding in binary code three years ago as they did or make the Riga Technical University and University of Latvia?

2014-08-13 Thread Aleksandar Kuktin
On Wed, 13 Aug 2014 09:47:03 -0300 françai s romaper...@gmail.com wrote: What are the programming languages ​​that were used to develop the Plan9? A dialect of C. The source code is in /sys/src. Probably the Riga Technical University and University of Latvia continue teaching coding in

Re: [9fans] Many bugs in eqn(1)

2014-08-13 Thread Steve Simon
I'd rather say that p9p software is the source these days. I wouldn't agree, p9p is a fork, much stuff gets ported both ways, though some changes may have been missed. I still use troff and tbl on plan9, occasionally I use eqn, last week for the first time in ages. I know there are some bugs

Re: [9fans] Many bugs in eqn(1)

2014-08-13 Thread Carsten Kunze
I still use troff and tbl on plan9, occasionally I use eqn, last week for the first time in ages. What are the bugs in tbl you found? (I think it had been you who mentioned it.) I know there are some bugs but I find it much easier to generate a simple document in troff than with MS Word,

Re: [9fans] Many bugs in eqn(1)

2014-08-13 Thread Steve Simon
What are the bugs in tbl you found? Mmm, I was worried you might ask that. I have an old document that used to layout incorrectly, however I just tried it and it is now fine - I wonder if the bug has been fixed ☺ The problem I had was a small - 1/23 inch, misalignment of vertical edges of

Re: [9fans] Many bugs in eqn(1)

2014-08-13 Thread Carsten Kunze
Mmm, I was worried you might ask that. :-) I will dig through my venti and see if I can find an old copy which exhibits the problem... Ok. If possible the lines between .TS/.TE to reproduce it (you may change the text if its confidential). --Carsten

Re: [9fans] chem preprocessor

2014-08-13 Thread cherry
On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 4:03 PM, Jacob Todd jaketodd...@gmail.com wrote: BWK wrote a preprocessor for troff for drawing chemical structures long ago. I've ported it to plan 9 with just a small changes. If you would like to try it out just `9fs busybeingbrutal.org`, it's chem.tbz. I have only