Thursday, March 23

After about four hours of beating my head against display.pl and LaTeX, here is test.pdf, which is bad on several levels, but is probably 9/10 of the way to being a real book. Given that I keep running into ways for raw HTML to play hell with LaTeX, this is actually relatively painless.

Stephen might well [March_19_2006|be right] about using TeX directly, or at least there might be a better package to use than LaTeX. Making the switch should be trivial, since I'm generating the whole thing from a quasi-HTML source file.

This book thing has highlighted some massive, heretofore only-just-suspected holes in my technical knowledge & sense of history. It's a familiar sensation, but I haven't felt anything quite like it while using a computer in years.

tags: perl, technical, wrt

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