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I work at a university, and the computer services for my academic department are managed in-house by a couple of computer officers. To maintain a secure network, they do not allow users admin privileges on any machine…

Given advances in computing power and browser abilities, how far are we from in-browser typesetting? Suppose we ignore issues such as reflow and legacy browser support. I am asking whether true typesetting, such as is…

Suppose I have an idea for the development of a simple utility -- this could be a program which monitors input from a sensor, processes it, and outputs messages using some communication method, say email. I know that…

This is a question about how to approach the design and development of a document format. The basic problem is this: in math (and other disciplines), we write a LaTeX markup file and then compile it to PDF. PDF is…

The university-wide events calendar for UC Berkeley seems to me to be a marvel of engineering and is very well thought-through. Here is a description of the extensive planning done for the development of this software:…