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Try ConTeXt. The float placement is much more flexible than in LaTeX. Being built on top of TeX, it supports all the math

The Mughals were not colonizers. The definition of a colony is: "country or area under the full or partial political control of another country". The Mughals were ousted from Central Asia; India was the only country they ruled. So, by definition, they were not colonizers.

India had been ruled by kings who were not originally from India. But, nothing in the history compared to the "loot" of the British (see http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/04/east-india-comp...)

Reminds me of the narration in a National Geographic short documentary that I saw in the visitor center of Yellowstone National Park (recollecting from memory): "Lewis and Clark were the first human beings to set foot on this land" ... (and 2 minute later) "... "Native Indians had been living here for thousands of years".

And even Hindus.

I grew up in North India and I was taught to say thank you to friends and even to family members e.g., say thank you after being offered snacks (what would be called hors d'oeuvres in the west), offered a chapati or additional daal or sabji during meals, etc.

I did not say thank you to bus or cab drivers, but often did say thank you to shopkeepers.

You do need to learn _a_ way to generate document. I don't see how the JS method is easier than, say, using a ConTeXt Lua Document (CLD). I'd really like to compare samples.

Just looked at the sample on the playground section of the website. No hyphenation, no ligatures, and overall the output looks ugly (compared to TeX). What is the advantage over simply creating an appropriate LaTeX/ConTeXt document in the background and serving that?

I, for one, still use pine (well, alpine) for all my email.

Growing up in India (different places in north India), I never saw a purple carrot, or a carrot of any color other than orange. I have only seen them in USA and Canada (not lived in Europe, so didn't know about it).

Would it be possible to use CSS to draw glyphs using data from Metafont source files?

Do Canadian universities hire "teaching professors"? Typically, professor also do research and (varying degree of) service (examining PhD theses, departmental and faculty committees, reviewing journal papers, etc.) in addition to regular teaching (2 to 3 courses per year, sometimes more). Is the author asking for a permanent position where none exists?

Why not:

    return o2.compareTo(o1);

And what social problem does FB solve?

Would it be possible for you to add support to other TeX formats, in particular, ConTeXt?

<sarcasm> Feeling lucky? Sure. What about the tourist visas? Oh I forgot. Americans and Europeans don't need them. </sarcasm>

For anyone interested in how the solution is derived, one alternative is to use dynamic programming. For example, see these lecture notes: http://www.cim.mcgill.ca/~decinfo/courses/ecse506/winter-201...

Don't know about the GP, but I have an iRex DR1000 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Reader_1000) which was perfectly sized for reading A4/letter papers. But it is bulky and has no wireless connectivity.

“Computers Are Useless. They Can Only Give You Answers” -- Pablo Picasso

From the linked Wikipedia article:

> All experiments were conducted on PCs equipped with an Intel Core i5-2500K CPU running at 3.30GHz and 16GB of RAM.

Why are these experiments not being conducted on a more powerful computer or a cluster?

As someone who joined the Internet bandwagon relatively late (circa 2000), whenever I see such reports on /viral growth/ of social website I wonder if email and usenet had a similar /viral growth/ in the 90s. Although the number of Internet users back then were small compared to now, they were still large enough in absolute numbers for some of these statistical analogies to apply. Usenet did eventually die out (for all practical purposes), but email is still going strong (perhaps not as much as at its peak, but it is nowhere close to being dead either).

Is there a sample chapter or section available. I normally like to see how an ebook containing math looks like on the different devices before buying.

For most people in academia, the incentive to work hard is not the fear to get fired, but the intrinsic satisfaction of working on a certain class of problems. Tenure does not take that intrinsic value away.

> As for PhDs, I have never hired one. They seem to universally have an inability to think concretely or in a step-by-step manner.

Could you elaborate on why you think that "PhDs have an inability to think"? If anything, I would have thought that a PhD will be extremely methodology and think through every step (after all, that is what you are supposed to do in a PhD).

What is the advantage of rendering math as images when Mathjax works reasonably well on all modern browsers.

The lines are not properly justified, so it appears that the output is not generated using TeX. I fail to see why would anyone choose left flushed alignment (with hyphenation!) when using TeX?

William Adams (http://mysite.verizon.net/william_franklin_adams/portfolio.h...) is a typographer who has extensively used both InDesign/Quark and TeX. He has often posted his experience with the two in different tex related mailing lists: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Comparison_between_ConTeXt_and...

Have a look at ConTeX (www.contextgarden.net). It is a TeX macro package, just like LaTeX. But it is a MUCH more consistent syntax, heavily relies on LuaTeX, and can generate XML output (for webpage and epub) as well.

None of those are "paperwhite" with the new reflective screen.

How does it compare with Pandoc[1], which is the swiss-army knife of Markdown-to-foo converters, and also handles presentations.

[1]: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/

This is true for using plugins in any editor/IDE. Where do you draw the line. Should I use my own `.vimrc` file and set textwidth, formatting-options, indenting, etc. according to my preference, or don't tweak anything at all because those tweaks will not be available at another user's machine/ssh server? It is relatively easy to have your configuration files on a USB/dropbox and copy them on a new machine if needed.