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Would you be interested in becoming acquaintances? My name is Aaron. My email is my username here at uchicago DAHT eddu. I think it's interesting you care about the AWK page. When I lived in Japan and was in graduate school there for chemical physics, I had to support myself for like six months as I applied for a scholarship, and I got a job programming at the Japanese Journal of Applied Physics. They had a rudimentary system running on some painfully slow old Sun box that converted LaTeX journal articles to an entire static HTML website they would upload to a separate webserver, but at that time was still outputting in HTML 1.0. Basically really ugly, and every sup/subscript was rendered to a GIF.

I didn't know Perl and Python wasn't yet under my radar, and what they were using was written in AWK by a recent graduate, but it was really just a long list of switches with some overly specific regexps built in. So what I did is implement a rudimentary TeX parser which would process all of the articles, run some of the text and the equations themselves through LaTeX2HTML, and then build a (still) static website with frames and such. It was pretty slick for me. Unfortunately I fell behind on their "Version 2.0" because of my research, and they turned elsewhere, but it bridged me.

The point of this story is, I love (G)AWK, and I always appreciate someone else who does. What do you study? Aschoeff 01:34, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

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Luksuh 04:04, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] mistake on Paamayim Nekudotayim

The bot added Paamayim Nekudotayim to WikiProject Judaism. This is incorrect because the article is computer science- and not Judaism-related, despite the Hebrew title. An understandable error but incorrect nonetheless. Just thought I'd mention is. --Makaristos 20:06, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Hi, Makaristos! The bot is working on a list of categories provided to me by WikiProject Judaism. If there might be more errors related to Paamayim Nekudotayim and a category that article is in, I suggest mentioning to them that at least one of the categories is incorrect - perhaps you could provide them with a couple articles that have been tagged that shouldn't? They have said they'll be reviewing all the articles to make sure they haven't over-bannered. Thanks for your input! And sorry for any inconvenience! -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 02:59, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Lewis and Clark

No probs. :) Hopefully it'll give you some breathing space! Best, PeterSymonds | talk 19:21, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] HELP US MAKING THE PROJECT OF ANCIENT GREEK WIKIPEDIA

We are the promoters of the Wikipedia in Ancient Greek. we need your help, specially for write NEW ARTICLES and the TRANSLATION OF THE MEDIAWIKI INTERFACE FOR ANCIENT GREEK, for demonstrating, to the language subcommittee, the value of our project.

Thanks a lot for your help. Ἡ Οὐικιπαιδεία needs you! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.40.197.5 (talk) 19:55, 30 May 2008 (UTC)