Den sön 7 juni 2020 21:34Philip Taylor
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> BPJ wrote:
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> > Well as everything in a computer program they are defined in the source
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> That is the very antithesis of Dijkstra's position on the subject, and I
> strongly agree with him ! The behaviour / syntax / semantics are desc
Hallo again Benct —
Dijkstra was a great theoretician, and in principle it is of course
right that the spec/documentation should dictate the behavior, but
as we all know there is usually, for practical reasons, more or less
distance between theory and practice, and in practice a piece of
s
Στις Δευ, 8 Ιουν, 2020 στις 11:48, ο χρήστηςPhilip
Taylor έγραψε:
Dijkstra was indeed a /very/ great theoretician, and I think that the
IT world is a far poorer place not only for his passing but for the
passing of the generation of computer scientists that he epitomised.
Dijkstra, I thin
po 8. 6. 2020 v 10:48 odesílatel Philip Taylor
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> Hallo again Benct —
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> > Dijkstra was a great theoretician, and in principle it is of course
> > right that the spec/documentation should dictate the behavior, but
> > as we all know there is usually, for practical reasons, more or le
po 8. 6. 2020 v 11:03 odesílatel Apostolos Syropoulos via XeTeX
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> Στις Δευ, 8 Ιουν, 2020 στις 11:48, ο χρήστηςPhilip Taylor
> έγραψε:
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> Dijkstra was indeed a /very/ great theoretician, and I think that the
> IT world is a far poorer place not only for his passing but for the
> pass
On 08/06/2020 10:28, Zdeněk Wagner wrote:
The request of supporting dvips specials in xdvipdfmx is not very
fair. PDF is modelled after PostScript but not the same. PostScript is
a linear language, PDF lacks programming structures but makes use of
streams, even indirect streams and indirect
Am Mon, 8 Jun 2020 11:28:56 +0200 schrieb Zdenek Wagner:
> PostScript can directly set both the colour and
> the colour model by setgray, setrgbcolor, setcmykcolor or first change
> the model and then set the colour by setcolor the number of parameters
> of which depend on the current colour mode
