they *say* it's latex-based paint...

[mrissa]

...but i don't see how it makes typesetting equations any easier than any other kind.

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[songwind.livejournal.com]

argh! my brain is bleeding!

[fmsv.livejournal.com]

Maybe you need the Metafont-based paint for the trim? Or maybe it only works if the room you're painting can be measured in potrzebie-units?

[the-flea-king.livejournal.com]

Now that's a blast from the past.

[cissa.livejournal.com]

*winces* Ouch. :)

[roane.livejournal.com]

I GET the joke. I'm so proud of myself! :)

ouch

[suzanne.livejournal.com]

*groans*

You see if you use microsoft paint to paint black boxes over all the equations you won't actually have to typeset them. Which is the approach our compositor seems to be taking in the volume I'm editing.

Hmm. Actually in this chapter they're actually just typesetting at random, perhaps that's a different color?

[reveritas.livejournal.com]

when i first met jd, i came over to his place and saw on the bookshelf two thick books about LATEX. A Guide to Latex and something else. i looked at him kinda sideways and went, OK, he seems pretty vanilla, i didn't know he was into that, that's cool though ... then maybe the second time i was over i pulled one out and .... oh. computers forpityssakes. :D

[redbird]

*grin*

Have you tried typesetting equations on your wall yet?

[ellarien]

I am now visualizing blue walls accented with tasteful paler-blue equations. If you could write them as LaTeX source and have the paint render them, that would be neat!

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

And far easier on my mom's and my shoulders!

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Yes, I know what LaTeX (http://www.latex-project.org/) is (and have written the vast majority of my academic papers in it). No, I don't understand why that's funny.

Although I still use the notation in e-mail; makes it very easy to pass equations back and forth if everyone is fluent in it.

B

[zwol.livejournal.com]

*grooooooaaaannnn*

Fair warning

[brooksmoses]

There will come a day, some years from now, when I will be painting a house. And then I will suddenly and without warning find myself bursting out laughing.

And it will be Your Fault.

Just so's you know.

(And now I also want to do a LaTeX-to-lasercutter-to-stencil trick, too. Subtle equations in slightly-darker or slightly-lighter paint sounds quite pleasant, if I can figure out where.)

[calculusdude16.livejournal.com]

*de-lurks*

The idea of auto-rendering paint brings back a childhood memory for me, actually. I had a storybook about Santa and toy-making elves and so on, and one page spread had an illustration of Santa's workshop, packed full of elves.

In one corner, an elf was painting a checkerboard with a brush and a bucket of checkerboard paint.

I thought this was the awesomest thing ever, and spent ages trying to figure out one could actually create such paint. I couldn't think of anything better than slicing squares into a paint roller.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Hee. Cool.

[ckd]

In Vernor Vinge's Marooned in Realtime, there's polka-dot spray paint. (Nanotech.)

Re: Fair warning

[suzanne.livejournal.com]

(And now I also want to do a LaTeX-to-lasercutter-to-stencil trick, too. Subtle equations in slightly-darker or slightly-lighter paint sounds quite pleasant, if I can figure out where.)

In your office, or the back wall of the garage. Somewhere I can point to it and lovingly role my eyes. (it wouldn't upset me at all, I think it's nifty. Though I might have to retaliate by doing the same thing with literary quotations...)

[landofnowhere]

Ah... maybe that's what I need to do the diagrams for my math paper due tomorrow... :-) back to work...