http://rhaptos.org daily 1 2005-04-07T21:34:52Z http://rhaptos.org/devblog/cbearden/blogentry.2007-09-28.6411602045 This stage needs refactoring to support future development. No publisher cbearden 2007-09-28T14:17+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/cbearden/blogentry.2007-09-28.4935639575 LaTeX has floating environments, of which tables and figures are the most important. Footnotes from within those environments are problematic. No publisher cbearden 2007-09-28T13:40+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/cbearden/blogentry.2007-09-25.7478753238 A thread from the W3C www-math mail list mentions a possibly useful LaTeX package. No publisher cbearden 2007-09-25T15:10+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/cbearden/blogentry.2007-09-21.7378928279 Recommended reading for learning more about TeX from John Culleton in comp.text.tex. No publisher cbearden 2007-09-21T10:38+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/cbearden/blogentry.2007-09-20.7119207584 The maintainer of ucs.sty is no longer working on the package. No publisher cbearden 2007-09-20T13:24+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/cbearden/blogentry.2007-09-13.1639290023 Some notes as I work through the University of Cambridge Engineering Dept.'s LaTeX tutorial No publisher cbearden 2007-09-13T18:55+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/cbearden/TeXMeeting Notes on a meeting RichB organized to discuss Connexions printing. No publisher cbearden 2007-03-15T18:00+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/cbearden/2007.03.09-15.25 Some notes on our new roles in metadata, for discussion and future reference, from a conversation with Ross. No publisher cbearden 2007-03-12T17:27+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/cbearden/coursePrintFixes01 This weekend I finished up several changes to the course printing system that considerably reduce the pain of creating course PDFs. No publisher cbearden 2006-06-26T09:22+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/cbearden/PerInstanceXML Having a single, global XML installation (including XSLT and CSS) per host is too limiting. No publisher cbearden 2006-06-12T17:11+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/cbearden/RhaptosI18n A few notes on starting to create translations of Rhaptos/Connexions site text. No publisher cbearden 2006-03-15T15:13+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/cbearden/TEDInBlogs A quick round-up of blog entries about TED that mention Rich B and Connexions. No publisher cbearden 2006-02-24T13:36+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/cbearden/mercedvisit A report on my visit to the Center for Computational Biology at UC Merced. No publisher cbearden 2005-12-07T15:46+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/cbearden/eip-help Max reminded me that we also need to generate the text of the element help for Edit-in-Place. A good idea, but it does further complicate the spec integration and generation process. No publisher cbearden 2005-11-15T15:11+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/cbearden/cnxml_flavors CNMXL 0.6 (like 0.5) will have four variants, depending on whether or not MathML and QML are used. How to reflect this in the specification? No publisher cbearden 2005-11-15T15:11+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/cbearden/schema_architecture In which I outline the design of the CNXML 0.6 schema and point out some implications for integrating the specification with it. No publisher cbearden 2005-11-15T15:10+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/cbearden/specproduction An overview of the process I propose for generating the next CNXML specification from the Relax NG schema. No publisher cbearden 2005-11-10T15:47+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/cbearden/del.icio.us Last night, cuz I wanted to, I loaded links to the 100 most popular modules of all time (as of last night) into a dedicated del.icio.us account. No publisher cbearden 2005-10-31T15:00+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/cbearden/spec03 I've attached a markup of the skeleton of my proposed organization of the CNXML 0.6 specification. What do you think? No publisher cbearden 2005-09-08T11:48+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/cbearden/contentOfCnxnName Both <code>cnxn</code> and <code>name</code> accept only text (#PCDATA in DTD terms) as content. Is that what we want? No publisher cbearden 2005-09-07T15:12+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/cbearden/spec02 A brief meeting after today's (2005/09/06) staff meeting. No publisher cbearden 2005-09-06T17:18+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/cbearden/specstart In this meeting, we began setting the parameters for producing the spec and detailing responsibilities. No publisher cbearden 2005-09-02T15:08+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/cbearden/ti_japan Yoji Yamada, Texas Instruments Visiting Professor to Rice for August &amp; September, and his student Hironori Takaryo, are translating Connexions content into Japanese. No publisher cbearden 2005-08-11T14:59+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/cbearden/MasaVisit Masa Watanabe, Academic Coordinator Center for Computational Biology at University of California--Merced is visiting Connexions this coming Monday & Tuesday (7/25-7/26) for training in Connexions authoring. No publisher cbearden 2005-07-21T14:57+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/cbearden/NCPEABook The National Council of Professors of Educational Administration (NCPEA) is republishing their print book _Crediting the Past, Challenging the Present, Creating the Future_ in Connexions. No publisher cbearden 2005-07-18T15:06+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/cbearden/cnxml06rng The Relax NG schema for CNXML 0.6 is almost done. I need to add context-based constraints on the value of the 'type' attribute of the 'code' element, then we can tag-n-branch. No publisher cbearden 2005-07-18T12:22+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/cbearden/PubSysId I have found the chief cause of the discrepancy between public and system IDs in 105 of our CNXML 0.5 docs. No publisher cbearden 2005-07-11T10:43+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/cbearden/xhtml2cnxml Improved computation of CNXML sections from XHTML header elements in the XHTML/MathML->CNXML converter. No publisher cbearden 2005-07-05T11:19+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/cbearden/cnxml05 CNXML 0.5 (now with Relax NG schemas) is finished, and we are now testing Debian and other packages for release. No publisher cbearden 2005-07-05T09:42+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/cbearden/DSPanish01 The DSPanish project has published translations into Spanish of three DSP modules. No publisher cbearden 2005-06-15T09:53+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/cbearden/DGetman Met on Friday (6/10) with Cnx author David Getman. No publisher cbearden 2005-06-13T15:55+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/cbearden/DSPanish DSPanish is a project at the University of Texas--El Paso to translate Rich's "Signals and Systems" course into Spanish. No publisher cbearden 2005-06-13T10:30+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/cbearden/usability Last week, Max administered a usability test of EiP functions to four subjects. I observed. No publisher cbearden 2005-06-06T11:53+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/cbearden/AllButFive My Relax NG schema for CNXML 0.5 plus MathML validates 1599 of 1604 files. No publisher cbearden 2005-05-20T14:26+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/cbearden/RNGMetadata The Relax NG schemas for CNXML (plain) and MDML now work together. No publisher cbearden 2005-05-17T15:56+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/cbearden/relaxTab Completed RNG schema for CALS tables; now all 'para' elements from CNXML 0.5 plain validate. No publisher cbearden 2005-05-12T14:29+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/cbearden/cnxml4To5 Added Adan's document on converting CNXML 0.4 to 0.5 to the CNXML wiki. No publisher cbearden 2005-05-10T13:41+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/cbearden/relaxng02 Valid Relax NG pattern for 4243 of 4351 para elements occuring in CNXML 0.5 plain files. No publisher cbearden 2005-05-05T16:46+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/cbearden/relaxng01 Developing the Relax NG schema from the bottom up, rather than from the top down. No publisher cbearden 2005-05-03T17:03+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/cbearden/SCUConfMedia Media streams, searchable transcripts, etc. from Santa Clara U. Conference. No publisher cbearden 2005-05-03T16:35+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/cbearden/rngProg1 First steps taken toward a Relax NG schema for CNXML 0.5. No publisher cbearden 2005-04-29T17:17+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/cbearden/relaxng Digging into Relax NG schema language. No publisher cbearden 2005-04-28T10:37+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/cbearden/SCUConfRpt More than you probably want to know about the conference. No publisher cbearden 2005-04-25T18:38+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/cbearden/DevBlogGood The DevBlog has helped me get oriented more quickly in the project. No publisher cbearden 2005-04-18T16:27+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/cbearden/SCUConference On Thursday (4/21) I will be representing Connexions at the Santa Clara University Center for Science, Technology &amp; Society 2005 International Conference. No publisher cbearden 2005-04-18T10:05+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/cbearden/newcateg Do we need a blog category for interface and usability issues? No publisher cbearden 2005-04-15T16:27+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/cbearden/2005.04.14 Status report for Thursday meeting No publisher cbearden 2005-04-14T11:21+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/cbearden/UploadEmpty Clicking on the "Upload File" button without specifying a path to a file when editing an index.cnxml file No publisher cbearden 2005-04-14T10:23+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/cbearden/2005.04.07-a Notes for status meeting, 2005/04/07. No publisher cbearden 2005-04-07T10:02+00:00