[texhax] inline lists
Paul Isambert
zappathustra at free.fr
Sat May 14 12:17:59 CEST 2011
Le 13/05/2011 17:33, Uwe Lueck a écrit :
> "Steve Peter"<speter at mac.com> wrote 13.05.2011 16:28:48:
>> On May 13, 2011, at 10:20 AM, Uwe Lueck wrote:
>>
>>> "Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)"<P.Taylor at Rhul.Ac.Uk> wrote 13.05.2011 10:34:32:
>>>> Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day.
>>>> Teach a man to fish and you feed him for life.
>>> Hm, somehow many people seem to prefer
>>> *buying* fish to catching fish themselves,
>>> or *begging* for fish, somehow successfully,
>>> sometimes.
>> All this talk of fish makes me wonder: how does it scale?
> An important point: you can *buy* scaled fish,
> you can't *catch* scaled fish.
Except in some very nasty variant of dodgeball played around Hamburg but
you don't want to hear about that.
As for Steve's (Hail to the Chief!) question about scales, it is well
known that fish usually go for E minor. Unless they're shark, in which
case they're not fish, and they generally verge on atonality. Octopuses
of course like bagpipe.
Hopes this helps, or not,
Paul
More information about the texhax
mailing list