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<P><SPAN LANG="cs"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial CE">V jedne slabsi chvili mne napadlo napsat dopis Knuthovi:</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="cs"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial CE">Dear professor,</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="cs"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial CE">I am trying to learn from the best. You are one of them. TeX is one of the best programs I know. The amazing facts are its stability and operating system independence.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN LANG="cs"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial CE">I want to ask you: What would you do better if you will implement it now</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="cs"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial CE">(I do not intend to change it).</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="cs"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial CE">I have 2 things:</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="cs"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial CE">1) Italic correction of boxes (talked personaly on your lecture in Prague - problem with tilded $\int$). The wired thing is imposibility of expandable characters to be expanded in other direction than vertical.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN LANG="cs"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial CE">2) I will probably try to use as much of memory as possible for page breaking. It will require other primitives like \maxmem (that will guarant identical output on all machines) and \clearpages (for using on chapter ends, that will act similarly as \par in horizontal mode expect the last box remains open).</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN LANG="cs"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial CE">Thank you very much for your time spent with this.</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="cs"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial CE">Did you discussed the problem somwhere on net? It will save your time.</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="cs"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial CE">VM</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="cs"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial CE">Nastesti jsem skoncil u toho, ze jsem vyhledal Knuthovu domaci stranku a dostal jsem odkaz na CSTUG.</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="cs"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial CE">V diskusnim foru jsem cetl neco o virualnich fontech ... je to odpoved na 1) otazku? (P. Sojka) </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="cs"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial CE">Tyka se to DVI nebo jen PS? Mam hledat odpovedi v knize Normana Walshe</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="cs"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial CE">Making TeX work (mate s knihou zkusenosti)?</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="cs"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial CE">Jsem konzervativni clovek, sw si instaluji jen, pokud to skutecne stoji za to, totez se tyka nakupu knih.</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="cs"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial CE">Druha otazka ma take konzervativni reseni ... "\vsize odpovida \maxmem",</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="cs"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial CE">output routine se muze postarat o naskladani vertikalniho materialu horizontalne a prislusne \clearpages makro prevede na \par. Pak vse dekoduje a necha stranky vystoupit. Zatim jsem to nedelal, ale dokazu si to predstavit.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN LANG="cs"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial CE">Doufam, ze i jini budou postupovat timto zpusobem ... nebudou otravovat DEK stupidnima navrhama. Predpokladam, ze kniha Digital Typography na hlavni otazku odpovida. Muze mi odpovedet nekdo, kdo ji cetl?</FONT></SPAN></P>
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