Monthly Archives: January 2025

Exporting Tables To LaTeX

Posted on 2025-01-21 by jcs

A week ago, I wrote about Matt Magire’s use of Emacs and Org mode to prepare notes for the students in his mathematics classes. In his post, Magire mentioned that Org mode was especially useful for producing tables for export … Continue reading →

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Helping To Read Old Cursive Documents

Posted on 2025-01-20 by jcs

It’s been a long time since I’ve addressed one of my favorite hobby horses: cursive handwriting. I have a long record of writing about it—search for “cursive” on Irreal—and if you’ve been around for a while, you know I think … Continue reading →

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What Computer And OS Do You Use?

Posted on 2025-01-19 by jcs

Over at the Emacs subreddit, ll777 wants to know what computer and OS you’re using. He’s a macOS user but is getting into Emacs and realizing that Emacs can do a lot of the things that he uses individual apps … Continue reading →

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Iterating In Lisp

Posted on 2025-01-18 by jcs

Joe Marshall has an interesting post on iteration for all you Lisp heads. It’s mostly aimed at Common Lisp and Scheme but a lot of it applies to Elisp as well so even Emacs users will be interested. The mail … Continue reading →

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Sweden Goes Back To Books And Handwriting

Posted on 2025-01-17 by jcs

I don’t know what to make of this. The TL;DR is that after many years, Sweden is returning to more traditional methods in education, including an emphasis on physical books and handwriting. On the one hand, there is some actual … Continue reading →

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Where Should Your Configuration Live, Redux

Posted on 2025-01-16 by jcs

A couple of weeks ago, I published a Red Meat Friday article about the proper place for your Emacs configuration to reside. Like many Red Meat Friday posts, it was tongue in cheek but it got quite a bit of … Continue reading →

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Stories From The Internet

Posted on 2025-01-15 by jcs

If you’re like me, you love those weird stories about seemingly impossible things happening with computers and the Internet. My favorite is A Story About Magic. Even if you know the story, follow the link to see a picture of … Continue reading →

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Installing By Default With =use-package=

Posted on 2025-01-14 by jcs

Bozhidar Batsov has a handy tip in his latest post. He, like me, organizes the package management of his init.el around use-package. It works well for him but he has a complaint. He almost always wants to install the packages … Continue reading →

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Watch Duty

Posted on 2025-01-13 by jcs

As most of you know, I’m an Apple user so Six Colors, a site dedicated to Apple news, is in my feed. I just noticed this article about Watch Duty, an app that tracks wild fire information and makes it … Continue reading →

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Class Notes In Emacs: Teachers’ Edition

Posted on 2025-01-12 by jcs

I’ve written in the past on my astonishment about people who are able to take mathematics class notes in LaTeX fast enough to keep up with the instructor: 1, 2, and 3. Some people who do this use Emacs, some … Continue reading →

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