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zsh using XTERM_VERSION as the number of colors 0 26 (12/3/2012 9:30:39 PM) comp.unix.shell According to https://github.com/cmende/dotfiles/blob/master/.zshrc (and many others) some zsh users think that XTERM_VERSION describes number of colors. It does not. See http://www.manualpages.de... Ilya

OT: ToC in the middle of the book 4 26 (5/15/2012 12:23:36 AM) comp.text.tex I asked a few librarians in Math institutes, and nobody knows the answer: What is the history of this (abominable) idea to put table of contents in the middle of the book? I make a cursory examination on ... Ilya

Segfault in 5.10.1 2 30 (4/17/2012 9:04:24 PM) comp.lang.perl.misc Have not seen segfaults in "recent" Perls for quite a long time (at least not in scripts which were working for decades ;-). powdermilk:/tmp->perl -wle 'local *kid = q(abc); $kid[0] =~ /[9k]/' Segmentation ... Ilya

search.cpan.org: how to advice its displays 3 49 (1/11/2012 8:07:05 AM) comp.lang.perl.misc For some time, I wonder how to make search.cpan.com's display of the POD smarter. E.g., go to http://search.cpan.org/~ilyaz/MP3-Tag-1.13/lib/MP3/Tag.pm#SEE_ALSO Note that links to mp3info2 and typeset_audi... Ilya

Unicode-AGE of a character? 8 26 (1/10/2012 6:47:56 AM) comp.lang.perl.misc I looked through the docs I could find, and can't find any way to determine the "Unicode AGE" of a particular codepoint except for: a) running /\p{Present_in: FOO}/ for all forseeable values of FOO; b) ma... Ilya

Opening Unicode files? 9 39 (12/25/2011 1:52:10 AM) comp.lang.perl.misc Does Perl ship with a simple method of opening Unicode files? E.g., I would like to have something like open my $fh, '< :BOM0or(utf8)', $filename where BOM0or does what Perl itself does for Perl files: it... Ilya

tikz: can it find intersection of lines? 10 37 (11/25/2011 11:14:13 PM) comp.text.tex I'm trying to use code like \coordinate (Y60) at (intersection of X0--X180 and X20--X240); \fill (Y60) circle (0.2pt); but the circle is placed not on the intersection, but is slightly offset. Is there ... Ilya

Is pgfpict2e supposed to be usable? 4 31 (11/15/2011 9:09:38 PM) comp.text.tex I'm trying to use pgfpict2e. The following test file works fine if I comment out the pgfpict2e line. It has two variants: \put+\line vs \qbezier. AFAICU, it should "just work" with dvips if I live the pgfpic... Ilya

Is \circle broken, or what? 2 40 (11/1/2011 7:28:38 AM) comp.text.tex I cannot explain discrepancy in the horizontal position of circles in \documentclass[12pt]{article} \begin{document} AAA\makebox(0,0){\circle*{5}}AAA AAA\makebox(0,0){$\bullet$}AAA AAA\put(0,0){\circle*{5}}... Ilya

mathtools: Faulty reboxing procedure? 4 34 (10/9/2011 9:33:12 PM) comp.text.tex I see the comment in mathtools.dtx: work[s] around a most unfortunate \TeX{} ``feature.''\footnote{The faulty reboxing procedure.} The code looks like this: \def\MT_mathrlap:Nn #1#2{{}\rlap{$\m@th#1{#2... Ilya

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Opening Unicode files? 9 39 (12/25/2011 1:52:10 AM) comp.lang.perl.misc Does Perl ship with a simple method of opening Unicode files? E.g., I would like to have something like open my $fh, '< :BOM0or(utf8)', $filename where BOM0or does what Perl itself does for Perl files: it... nospam-abuse (460)

regexp for matching a string with mandatory underscores 29 28 (12/27/2011 10:04:07 AM) comp.lang.perl.misc I want to be able to match the string foo1_bar2_baz3 as having multiple underscore characters (with no intervening whitespace), but not match foo1_bar2 which has only one underscore. I want to ignore one match... davidfilmer1 (1)

POD module synopses? 18 36 (1/2/2012 1:45:49 AM) comp.lang.perl.misc While in theory the SYNOPSIS section of a module's POD has a one line description, in practice it's much longer, typically containing a description of the modules parameters or other brief usage information. In... spamtrap16 (3686)

Combining macron or circumflex with Cyrillic characters 8 41 (1/4/2012 2:27:17 PM) comp.text.tex SGkgYWxsLAoKVGhpcyBpcyBhIGxpdHRsZSBiaXQgb2ZmLXRvcGljIGJ1dCBwcm9iYWJseSB0aGUg YXVkaWVuY2UgdGhhdCBjYW4KYW5zd2VyIG1lLgoK0JTQsCDQu9C4INCz0L7QstC+0YDQuNGC0LUg 0YHRgNC/0YHQutC4PyDQlNCw0LvQuCDQt9Cx0L7RgNGD0LLQsNCw0YIg... pander (57)

Unicode-AGE of a character? 8 26 (1/10/2012 6:47:56 AM) comp.lang.perl.misc I looked through the docs I could find, and can't find any way to determine the "Unicode AGE" of a particular codepoint except for: a) running /\p{Present_in: FOO}/ for all forseeable values of FOO; b) ma... nospam-abuse (460)

search.cpan.org: how to advice its displays 3 49 (1/11/2012 8:07:05 AM) comp.lang.perl.misc For some time, I wonder how to make search.cpan.com's display of the POD smarter. E.g., go to http://search.cpan.org/~ilyaz/MP3-Tag-1.13/lib/MP3/Tag.pm#SEE_ALSO Note that links to mp3info2 and typeset_audi... nospam-abuse (460)

Math fonts 17 33 (1/23/2012 5:19:27 AM) comp.text.tex Dear TeX users My layout prefers two set of math fonts. 1. Normal Times font in Text/para. 2. Sansserif font in Section/Table/Figure captions. My example: \documentclass{article} \begin{document} This is m... pvklatexsoft1 (14)

Can I avoid 'Possible attempt to put comments in qw() list '? 9 39 (4/15/2012 9:42:06 PM) comp.lang.perl.misc I have a hash of of lists defined along these lines Ab => qw(Ab Bb C DB Eb F G) Some of them quite legitimately have hash characters in them, but if I write this D => qw(D E F\# G A B C\#) I get 'Pos... news192 (135)

eqalign equalizer 7 34 (5/16/2012 11:29:33 AM) comp.text.tex My PlainTeX -> LaTeX manuscript conversion problem is simplified by the following macro: \ifLaTeX\def\alignedequation#1#2{\begin{align}#1\label{#2}\end{align}} \else \def\alignedequation#1#2{\begingroup\def... carlos151 (330)

Half-open interval overline sought? 5 31 (6/15/2012 3:24:33 PM) comp.text.tex I'm looking for a different way to typeset half-open intervals. Consider a "Left-closed Right-open" macro \LCRO. Rather than \LCRO{3}{5} producing [3,5) , I'd like it to produce *-----o 3 , ... gentsquash (35)