Re: [stack] Re: Can't View Factor Talk Slides on Vista

Re. 'slides' and other aids-to-cognition: I previously wrote that not only do
I favour UPPER-CASE but also colour to add extra 'dimensions'.
OTOH these smarty-pants/non-ascii presentations that break communications
between potential collaborators are disasterous. Like using pdf, when there
are no diagrams or other NEED to use it.
But related: what I can never get an answer on is
 what are these "can<multipleChars>t"
 instead of "can't"
that I often get ?!
<BTW can you see how colour would better explain the above sentence?>

I suspect that they originate from Micro$loth-WORD?
Isn't the quote-char a standard ASCII-char?
So, why do they need to 'encode' it?
I'd be relieved to 'unstack' this decade old mystery.


On 10/27/10, hiatoms <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Actually, Factor's Windows support is great for a non-mainstream language!
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> Supports SEH exception handling, non-blocking I/O using native APIs, native
> file system change monitoring/directory handling, Uniscribe font rendering,
> etc etc. That particular bug just happens to be annoying right now...
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> Native API usage is a standard feature and taken seriously unlike a lot of
> languages that primarily grow up around only one or two *nix platforms.
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> I used to develop Factor tools under Ubuntu and had no issues running the
> same tool under Windows as the stdlib abstracts away the platform specific
> requirements.  Now I build on Windows directly as the MS CL compiler is used
> there for the runtime (no more broken cygwin).
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> -Adam
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> --- In [email protected], "John" <jfsurban@...> wrote:
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>> Hi Adam,
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>> Thanks! Extreme workaround indeed. Maybe this is a sign that I should use
>> a nix machine instead.
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>> Also thanks for the factor mailing list link.
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>> -John
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>> --- In [email protected], "hiatoms" <hiatoms@> wrote:
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>> > Hi John,
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>> > Just to let you know, Factor has a direct mailing list if you'd like a
>> > faster response.  Please take a look at the link below:
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>> > http://concatenative.org/wiki/view/Factor/Mailing%20list
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>> > Also, this is a known issue since Factor switched over to Uniscribe font
>> > rendering on Windows.
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>> > One thing you could do is download a Ubuntu Live CD and VMware Player or
>> > VirtualBox (which are both free), boot the Live CD, download the Factor
>> > binaries and load the slides.  Yes, I realize this is kind of an extreme
>> > workaround. ;-)
>> >
>> > If you want to look at the slides of Slava's recent talk at DLS, you
>> > might need to download the current clean build which is listed below the
>> > v0.94 links on factorcode.org.
>> >
>> > Here's a recent link talking about the slides vocab:
>> > http://re-factor.blogspot.com/2010/10/presentations-in-factor.html
>> >
>> > Please post to the Factor mailing list to remind the devs that this is
>> > an issue affecting newcomers!
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > -Adam
>> >
>> > --- In [email protected], "John" <jfsurban@> wrote:
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>> > > Hi All,
>> > >
>> > > I've been trying to view the the factor talk slides on Windows Vista
>> > > 32 bit but all I see are texts on black background. Is there some
>> > > setup that I have to do?
>> > >
>> > > Has somebody experienced this before?
>> > >
>> > > I am using a HP G50 notebook.
>> > >
>> > > Thanks,
>> > > John
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