Author: grant

I Need Your Help Adding org-utf-to-xetex to MELPA

Hello friends. Despite my best efforts, I cannot do my part to add org-utf-to-xetex to MELPA—this is my fault.

Unfortunately, I’m unsure why I can’t fork the repo, but I need your help now.

If you are up for the mission then here are the details.

If you are curious about becoming a co-maintainer—that would be even better! org-utf-to-xetex makes it easy to specify the correct fonts for Unicode characters in primarly Latin character documents. It is a blast to use and makes it easy to add all sorts of characters into your documents that would normally end up looking like this “□□□□□”!

Together, we can get far, and this package is worth it!

Interesting new gptel v0.9.8 features and commits since v0.9.7

The latest version of gptel has some cool features and refinements! See Version v0.9.8 Latest.

Watching gptel get developed is a MASTER CLASS in software development! Observe the constant consideration and addition of user facing features, refinement the existing code, adding new code and concepts (request FSM for example). It is the work of true masters.

If you love programming elisp it is yet another perfect example of writing re-world supportable and maintainable and flexible code. Might sound trifing but here are some elisp features that are extremely useful in real-world programming so check them out if you haven’t before:

  • cl-assert
  • cl-loop
  • cl-typep
  • condition-case
  • condition-case-unless-debug
  • if-let*
  • letrec
  • pcase-let
  • plist-put
  • quasiquote
  • structs
  • when-let

Here are the commits I found cool with a reason why.

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Refactoring a Simple Example of Simultanously User-Friendly and Debuggable Code

Today, I was playing around with hs-minor-mode. hs-show-all and hs-hide-all work great to give you a quick overview of the file. It is so good, in fact, that it #1 deserves a key-binding because you call it a lot, and #2 starts to get tedious alternately calling them. Consequently, I looked for a fix, some kind of toggling function

code here

Org2Blog v1.1.(14-18) Updates Overview

Here are the Org2Blog updates I forgot to post 🤦🤣.

v1.1.14

  • Documentation recognizes Org2Blog as an application
  • Adds Writer Tools menu and features: writegood, spellcheck, and word count
  • Adds Value for project itself
  • Adds more documentation and images on application design
  • Explains amsmath status

v1.1.15

  • When you add (emacs "XX.YY") to the Package-Requires header line it must be at least one major version less than the current version
  • This release updates the dependency to 27.1

v1.1.16

  • Override Org-generated CSS Underline with plain HTML underline

v1.1.17

  • Removes generated package file
  • Updates copyrights
  • Fixes links and typos

v1.1.18

  • Upgraded to Emacs v29.4 and Org mode vOrg mode version 9.6.15
  • 2 Bug Fixes
  • Indentation Fixes

On Responsibility

Via Man’s Search for Meaning (formatted quote follows):

“Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

―Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning

Breathes there the man

‘Breathes there the man’――Sir Walter Scott 

I
Breathes there the man, with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my own, my native land!
Whose heart hath ne’er within him burn’d,
As home his footsteps he hath turn’d,
From wandering on a foreign strand!
If such there breathe, go, mark him well;
For him no Minstrel raptures swell;
High though his titles, proud his name,
Boundless his wealth as wish can claim;
Despite those titles, power, and pelf,
The wretch, concentred all in self,
Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
And, doubly dying, shall go down
To the vile dust, from whence he sprung,
Unwept, unhonour’d, and unsung.

II
O Caledonia! stern and wild,
Meet nurse for a poetic child!
Land of brown heath and shaggy wood,
Land of the mountain and the flood,
Land of my sires! what mortal hand
Can e’er untie the filial band,
That knits me to thy rugged strand!
Still as I view each well-known scene,
Think what is now, and what hath been,
Seems as, to me of all bereft,
Sole friends thy woods and streams were left;
And thus I love them better still,
Even in extremity of ill.
By Yarrow’s streams still let me stray,
Though none should guide my feeble way;
Still feel the breeze down Ettrick break,
Although it chill my wither’d cheek;
Still lay my head by Teviot Stone,
Though there, forgotten and alone,
The Bard may draw his parting groan.