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mx: that's exactly how LyX (and LaTeX for that matter) works: you create a class file that provides domain-specific semantic markup such as "Table of ingredients", and that appears as the actual object you create in the editor. Even MS Word allows you to create styles with semantic naming etc.

Sure, LyX is clunky in places (and the continued lack of character styling is embarrassing) but the point is your suggestions are far from a new idea. The tools just need improvement, that is all.

And by the way, LyX has been Qt-ified and Aqua-fied for quite some time.

mx: I'm somewhat confused as to how your ideas differ from existing structured document editors such as LyX or Conglomerate, or even the features present in recent version of Word and OpenOffice.

That is, they all have the "semantic markup" toolboxes as a basic feature.

What's up with certification these days ? I used to be able to certify someone with a single cert, but nowadays, three certs from Masters isn't good enough to make somebody an Apprentice. Seems a bit fishy to me.

Of course most of the existing certs are complete bunk anyway, but ...

Finally got round to setting up Wondershaper. Works a treat, now I can easily read my email (over an ssh connection to a remote box) whilst uploading and downloading loads of stuff. Nice.

Random list of the day: Firebird suggestions after typing " in the google search box, an anthology :

  • "I could crush a grape"
  • "C3PO with pubes and hair"
  • "charles bronson" swastika hostage
  • "khendon's law"
  • "pikey spackers"
  • "who fulfilled predicate P"
  • "I started to dance" wearing seatbelt
elanthis: I don't know why you're persisting, STL solved this problem a long time ago in combination with Boost Lambda in a standards-compliant way without need for extensions. A little googling would have shown you that.

Tried out the latest garnome (which is fairly close to Gnome 2.4 I think). After fixing the wrong URLs and installing all the extra base dependencies, got it running.

A little better than the last time I tried. Screws up the desktop icons, the fonts and menus.

You still can't cycle through workspaces in metacity which makes it unusable for me. And gnome-terminal is still horribly flickery compared to konsole.

Oh well.

Is there an RSS aggregator[1] for Linux[2] that will compile on RH8[3] and doesn't require Java[4], and is a GUI[5] ?

[1] not firebird's RSS reader extension
[2] not sharpreader et al
[3] not straw or krss
[4] not newsmonster
[5] not rawdog et al

Apparently not. Anybody know if anyone's been playing with a trust metric style RSS aggregator ?

cmiller: it's "supposed" to be fewer. Of course, since there's no chance of confusion either way, the only people who care are pedants with too much time on their hands, and poets.

> Currently, by bigest language irritation is ...

Very amusing ...

Just discovered that Apache's mod_alias is no better at enabling a website to be relocatable (no dependency on absolute paths) than PHP's require() was. The target URL has to be an absolute file path and it's rather difficult to redirect the top-level URL.

So I ended up (again) with a bunch of hacks. Sigh.

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