The truth is that I haven’t read the Emacs documentation yet. I will read it, it is on the list. Until then, I’ve relied on other kinds folks to provide answers for my questions. Tommy was kind enough to provide an answer for this one.
Evaluate the following in the scratch buffer:
(insert (w32-select-font))
For more information […]
DrScheme is very, very close to its 4.0 release. I wanted to try out the newest bits on my OLPC XO using one of the nightly builds, but ran into the same problem as I did last time:
/home/olpc/apps/plt-3.99.0.25/bin/mred: error while loading shared libraries: libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Some folks […]
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The beamer class is a LaTeX class for creating presentations using a video projector. It offers incremental display, prearranged themes, automatic table of contents, navigation bars, bibliographies, and other features.
Check out the home page, it has some nice examples.
The LaTeX Beamer Class lets you prepare beautiful presentations!
This post on the PLT discussion list shares some research into programming the Sony AIBO with Scheme, with this followup post providing additional details on a Scheme interpreter (STk) that provides a foreign function interface for the Sony AIBO C++ API.
Perhaps one day those STk libraries will be ported to PLT!
STk is a free R4RS Scheme interpreter which can access the Tk graphical package. Concretely, it can be seen as the standard Tk package where Tcl has been replaced by a Scheme interpreter. STk embeds also an efficient CLOS like object oriented system, called STklos, which provides:
multiple inheritance
generic functions
multi-methods
a MOP (Meta Object Protocol)
This is a great post explaining the history of macro systems.
Scheme Boston is a group of Scheme users who are located in and around Boston, Massachusetts. The group meets monthly, more or less, and usually on the third Wednesday of the month.
Folks running Emacs on Windows (like me) might like to set their font to Lucida Console.
Until I find a tool or documentation on how to write X style font lines, I’ve copied some font-lines from other folks websites.
; (set-default-font “-outline-Lucida Console-normal-r-normal-normal-11-82-96-96-c-*-iso8859-1″)
; (set-default-font “-*-Lucida Console-normal-r-*-*-11-82-*-*-c-*-*-ansi-”)
; (set-default-font “-*-Lucida Console-normal-r-*-*-11-82-*-*-c-*-*-#204-”)
; (set-default-font “-outline-Lucida Console-normal-r-normal-normal-12-90-96-96-c-*-iso8859-1″)
; (set-default-font “-*-Lucida Console-normal-r-*-*-12-90-*-*-c-*-*-ansi- “)
; (set-default-font […]
From Wikipedia:
A meme consists of any unit of cultural information, such as a practice or idea, that gets transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another.
Whether or not you agree in the validity of memes as a science (I don’t); the term is often used in pop culture, generally representing some bit […]
At JavaOne 08, the presentation “Writing the next great Java book” looked to be pretty exciting. It was originally billed as an introduction to a couple of authors, a QA session, and then primarily a review of great books in Computer Science history so I was pretty excited. In reality, it was very disappointing.
The […]