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Re: Questions regarding firefox

http://code.google.com/p/firefox-mac-pdf/
By the way, this was in the top 3 when I googled for "firefox pdf plugin" ...

Cheers,
Ari

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 10:54 PM, soumya dipta
<soumyadiptabanerjee@...> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> My problem is not quite directly related to LATEX but I will be happy to
> know a solution and hope others will too :
> I use Mac Os Leopard. Using Firefox browser I cannot open pdf documents
> without saving , a default copy is always saved.
> I want to circumvent this problem.
> Thanks
>
> Shom
>
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Announcement: The Birth of a new MacTeX website

The current website (www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex) is being shut down and  
replaced with a new, and eventually better, website at
http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/
courtesy of Thanh Han The at River Valley Technologies.

The same people will have their hands in maintaining it, but now more  
authorities will be able to assist in the updating and maintenance  
(which in some areas is long overdue). All information on the old  
pages has been transferred. The new website has a little bit more  
information, but it still has some formatting issues that I'm grateful  
for corrections (that means editing, not telling me about it!).

The mailing lists will continue as they always have.

We hope you enjoy the new resource.

I look forward to many edit log entries in the near future. Please do  
read the guidelines, though. We want to maintain impartiality of the  
web pages (or improve it where possible).
Best,
Joe Slater
for Gary Gray and the crew from TUG.

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Re: Announcement: The Birth of a new MacTeX website

On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 4:41 AM, Joseph C. Slater PE, PhD
<joseph.slater@...> wrote:
> The current website (www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex) is being shut down and
> replaced with a new, and eventually better, website at
> http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/
> courtesy of Thanh Han The at River Valley Technologies.

Nice.

Since this is wiki, I would like to ask a question: creation of
accounts a) disabled b) reserved to Admin c) enabled. My own
experience with Wiki (I run it for my graduate classes) shows that the
last option is rather dangerous: I instantly discovered a bunch of
"sleeper agents" with the Russian e-mails but coming from Chinese IPs
and alien-looking names probably waiting a signal to start promoting
Viagra and Enlargement.

Wiki has a lots of options and plugins. In particular one can enable
math compiling math extension (TeX and ImageMagick installation
needed) allowing TeX-like inputs.

Actually it can become an alternative to mailing list, or after
discussion of some (important) question settles one can place the
distilled discussion as an article open for subsequent correction.

Victor
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Re: Announcement: The Birth of a new MacTeX website

On Aug 1, 2008, at 7:11 PM, Victor Ivrii wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 4:41 AM, Joseph C. Slater PE, PhD
> <joseph.slater@...> wrote:
>> The current website (www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex) is being shut down and
>> replaced with a new, and eventually better, website at
>> http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/
>> courtesy of Thanh Han The at River Valley Technologies.
>
>
> Nice.
>
> Since this is wiki, I would like to ask a question: creation of
> accounts a) disabled b) reserved to Admin c) enabled.

Enabled right now. We will likely change that to reserved for Admin at  
the first sign of trouble.

> My own
> experience with Wiki (I run it for my graduate classes) shows that the
> last option is rather dangerous: I instantly discovered a bunch of
> "sleeper agents" with the Russian e-mails but coming from Chinese IPs
> and alien-looking names probably waiting a signal to start promoting
> Viagra and Enlargement.

No Cialis?

>
>
> Wiki has a lots of options and plugins. In particular one can enable
> math compiling math extension (TeX and ImageMagick installation
> needed) allowing TeX-like inputs.

Thanh (admin) knows what's there. I don't.

>
>
> Actually it can become an alternative to mailing list, or after
> discussion of some (important) question settles one can place the
> distilled discussion as an article open for subsequent correction.

we're interested in maybe having an FAQ eventually.

>
>
>
> Victor
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Re: Announcement: The Birth of a new MacTeX website

On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Joseph C. Slater PE, PhD
<joseph.slater@...> wrote:
>
> On Aug 1, 2008, at 7:11 PM, Victor Ivrii wrote:
>

>
> Enabled right now. We will likely change that to reserved for Admin at the
> first sign of trouble.

Well, at least email verification is needed. However check regularly
the user list and hunt down suspicious users. BTW, since data is
stored in sql (probably MySQL) database one can access this
>

>> Wiki has a lots of options and plugins. In particular one can enable
>> math compiling math extension (TeX and ImageMagick installation
>> needed) allowing TeX-like inputs.
>
> Thanh (admin) knows what's there. I don't.

Works: check my user page
>

>
> we're interested in maybe having an FAQ eventually.

Yes, it would be nice. This list contains tons of very useful info but
it is a bloody mess (and one cannot expect anything better from the
mailing list)

Victor

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Re: Announcement: The Birth of a new MacTeX website

On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 09:07:25PM -0400, Joseph C. Slater PE, PhD wrote:
> >My own
> >experience with Wiki (I run it for my graduate classes) shows that the
> >last option is rather dangerous: I instantly discovered a bunch of
> >"sleeper agents" with the Russian e-mails but coming from Chinese IPs
> >and alien-looking names probably waiting a signal to start promoting
> >Viagra and Enlargement.
> 
> No Cialis?

So this is the reason why my spam filter is going crazy with this thread...

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Re: Announcement: The Birth of a new MacTeX website

On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 9:42 AM,  <brian@...> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 09:07:25PM -0400, Joseph C. Slater PE, PhD wrote:
>> >My own
>> >experience with Wiki (I run it for my graduate classes) shows that the
>> >last option is rather dangerous: I instantly discovered a bunch of
>> >"sleeper agents" with the Russian e-mails but coming from Chinese IPs
>> >and alien-looking names probably waiting a signal to start promoting
>> >Viagra and Enlargement.
>>
>> No Cialis?
>
> So this is the reason why my spam filter is going crazy with this thread...

Put this list into white list. Remember that there are many nice
people who however never managed to write a legitimate email scoring
less than 99% in spam evaluation 

BTW, I put everything originating from yahoo or hotmale or using M$
Outluck into "-> SuspectedSpam" filter but put some people to
whietelist which is executed before everything else
>

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Re: Announcement: The Birth of a new MacTeX website

One more thing: currently upload of pdf files disabled. It would be
nice to have it enabled and
PdfHandler installed. Look at

http://weyl.math.toronto.edu/jwiki/index.php/Lectures

(and click images) to see how pdf files are handled with this extension.

Other extensions I find very helpful are Sort and Sort2

Victor
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Re: Flashmode and Alpha?

>Has anyone tried to get Flashmode working with Alpha as an external
>editor?   Is there any hope of this?

(I assume you are referring to Claus Gerhardt's applescript
application.)

Claus himself gave it a short try in January 2005, and asked for
some advice on this Mailing List about applescripting Alpha.
Although he got several detailed replies, apparently he abandonned
the idea shortly after.

There was instead a flashmode prototype internal to Alpha, cf.
http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/MacOSX-TeX-Digests/2005/MacOSX-TeX_Digest_01-09-05.html

This featured some new ideas that are perhaps still worth some
attention: instead of polling, it worked by notification, the various
involved components communicating through a pipe and via event hooks.
It also used a dynamically precompiled custom tex format.

It was not developed any further.  The last version is from May 2005,
and I just tried: it is not compatible with the current AlphaX 8.2
developer releases.  (Should work with AlphaX 8.0.2 though.)

Cheers,
Joachim.

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