mbork

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I am a mathematician by profession and quite a long-time (since around 1995 - as of now [2012], this means almost half of my life) TeX user by hobby.

I started with plain TeX, and much later (in the early 2000s) moved to LaTeX; I still use plain TeX occasionally (and when writing LaTeX classes/packages). Quite recently I also started to use ConTeXt.

I have a blog about (among others) TeX and friends, located at http://mbork.pl/Content_AND_Presentation.

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Mar 21	comment	Can PGF plot the integral of any specified function? Wow, TeX doing integrals... That is ambitious. Though, if you mean numerical, not symbolic (as your question seems to suggest), it is probably pretty doable. (Theoretically, symbolic is of course doable as well - but not worth the effort imho.)
Mar 21	comment	Tips for choosing hardware for best LaTeX compile performance It just occurred to me that, depending on whether you are more into music or more into games, good speakers or a fast video card might be the best option - see xkcd.com/303 ;D
Mar 21	revised	Controlling the spacing between lines with \fontsize{}{}\selectfont Added comment about the leading
Mar 21	comment	Tips for choosing hardware for best LaTeX compile performance @MarcvanDongen: though I'm afraid even Taco is not brave enough to reimplement TeX that way... The communication between these "threads" is quite complicated...
Mar 21	comment	Controlling the spacing between lines with \fontsize{}{}\selectfont @MarcvanDongen, may I incorporate your suggestion in my answer or do you want to provide a better one;)?
Mar 21	comment	Tips for choosing hardware for best LaTeX compile performance And last but not least: what may count the most (I think) is the workflow and habits. You can use Emacs in a non-productive way, for instance, not utilizing its power. (The same goes for Vim, of course.) Another example: if you use LuaTeX on a netbook machine (I do - sometimes), recompiling after each tiny change is probably a very bad idea.
Mar 21	comment	Tips for choosing hardware for best LaTeX compile performance For the editor: an algorithm for choosing a very good editor may be: 1. toss a coin. 2. Heads choose Vim, tails choose Emacs. 3. STOP. However, there is also a better algorithm, which chooses not a good editor, but the best one: 1. choose Emacs. 2. STOP.
Mar 21	comment	Tips for choosing hardware for best LaTeX compile performance Though @MarcvanDongen is right, I think that you'd get much higher productivity boost from using a well-thought toolset, i.e. a good editor/LaTeX IDE and a reasonable pdf viewer (i.e. either not Adobe Reader, either properly configured Adobe Reader).
Mar 21	answered	Controlling the spacing between lines with \fontsize{}{}\selectfont
Mar 20	comment	Functions equivalent fo MS-Windows Note also that you've probably meant MS Word, not MS Windows. Asking precise, correct questions is a good way to get precise, correct answers.
Mar 20	comment	Preprocessing without compiling with etoolbox ...or LuaTeX, which obviously could do it (maybe called as `texlua`, so that it's just a lua interpreter)?
Mar 20	comment	Preprocessing without compiling with etoolbox What about `docstrip`?
Mar 20	comment	Is it possible to solve encoding problems? You might also want to check out a `konwert` tool (is in Ubuntu repo, I don't know about Mac). It is kind of a Swiss-army knife for converting files between encodings, imho better than `iconv`. Among others, it can (try to) recognize the encoding.
Mar 19	comment	Variable itemize indentation on Beamer slides Well, `crane` is rather orange-ish, I'd say. (I know that because it's one of my favorite beamer color themes, not counting my own one;).)
Mar 19	comment	Variable itemize indentation on Beamer slides Where do I get this cuuute pink color theme?
Mar 19	comment	Front end software for editors Well, why not just use LaTeX together with git or hg?
Mar 19	comment	Challenging exercises in LaTeX What about giving them files that either (i) produce a bad-looking pdf (as @Marc suggested below) or (ii) contain errors and hence do not compile at all?
Mar 18	accepted	How many LaTeX classes and packages are there (say, on CTAN)?
Mar 17	awarded	Nice Question
Mar 17	comment	What are the main advantages to using the multicol package over the twocolumn documentclass option? disadvantage: licence (see e.g. tex.stackexchange.com/questions/40920/…)