From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/42843 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "luigi scarso" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Creating account on wiki contextgarden Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 05:44:57 +0200 Message-ID: References: <6048c4180807281328i7bb58a8aw498be3386e55db96@mail.gmail.com> <488F5993.9070200@wxs.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============0397076096==" X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1217389581 8058 80.91.229.12 (30 Jul 2008 03:46:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 03:46:21 +0000 (UTC) To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Jul 30 05:47:09 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KO2eb-0006Jx-FG for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Jul 2008 05:47:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30EF31FBBE; Wed, 30 Jul 2008 05:46:10 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 29070-01; Wed, 30 Jul 2008 05:45:48 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E4AE1FB38; Wed, 30 Jul 2008 05:45:42 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6CAA1FB30 for ; Wed, 30 Jul 2008 05:45:38 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 29112-01-3 for ; Wed, 30 Jul 2008 05:45:03 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com (wf-out-1314.google.com [209.85.200.173]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EEFF1FB4E for ; Wed, 30 Jul 2008 05:44:59 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 27so238321wfd.5 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:44:57 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.142.135.16 with SMTP id i16mr2459515wfd.341.1217389497113; Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:44:57 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.142.240.15 with HTTP; Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:44:57 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <488F5993.9070200@wxs.nl> X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:42843 Archived-At: --===============0397076096== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_53403_423772.1217389497101" ------=_Part_53403_423772.1217389497101 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 7:55 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: > luigi scarso wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 10:28 PM, Mehdi Omidali > wrote: > > > >> Hi everyone, > >> I want to translate "Context an excursion" to farsi and went to > >> http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_on_Excursion,_translations > >> and tried to create an account to be able to access source files. I > >> faced a problem in the "anti automated account creation question" > >> which is something like > >> (23 plus 8) times roman 'C' > >> What must be inserted as the answer to such a problem. I tried > >> everything but no success. > >> Best Wishes. > >> > > > > I must admit that I will feel confused if the question will be mixed with > > ancient maya numbers . > > well, you're an original 'roman' guy so you'll get the easy creation > question > Better to say "no", otherwise one can argue that I'm also able with Etruscan numerals http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etruscan_numerals BTW, some linearity equations like x = IIII - IV can be problematic (actually {'nulla' , 'N' } are valid solutions, but it's an historical matter) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_numerals One can say that such questions should be avoided because there are no reasons for non-roman people to know about roman numerals (at least they are the same of non-maya people to know about maya numerals), and it's generally true . But, given that we are talking about ConTeXt and given that \romannumerals is a ConTeXt macro, in this particular case such questions are valid. This open the door to similar questions (cfr core-con.lua,core-con.tex for persian,thai etc) and given that Unicode sooner or later will cover all kind of writing systems of the human race, I expect that some day some questions will be mixed with maya numerals. -- luigi ------=_Part_53403_423772.1217389497101 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline


On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 7:55 PM, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
luigi scarso wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 10:28 PM, Mehdi Omidali <mehdioa@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>> I want to translate "Context an excursion" to farsi and went to
>> http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_on_Excursion,_translations
>> and tried to create an account to be able to access source files. I
>> faced a problem in the "anti automated account creation question"
>> which is something like
>> (23 plus 8) times roman 'C'
>> What must be inserted as the answer to such a problem. I tried
>> everything but no success.
>> Best Wishes.
>>
>
> I must admit that I will feel confused if the question will be mixed with
> ancient maya numbers .

well, you're an original 'roman' guy so you'll get the easy creation
question

Better to say "no", otherwise one can  argue that I'm also able with Etruscan numerals
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etruscan_numerals

BTW, some linearity equations like
x = IIII - IV
can be problematic (actually {'nulla'  , 'N' } are valid solutions, but it's an historical matter)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_numerals

One can say that such questions should be avoided because there are no reasons for non-roman people to know about roman numerals
(at least they are the same of non-maya people to know about maya numerals), and it's generally true .

But, given that we are talking about ConTeXt and given that \romannumerals is a ConTeXt macro,
in this particular case such questions are valid.

This open the door to similar questions (cfr core-con.lua,core-con.tex for  persian,thai etc)
and given that Unicode sooner or later will cover all kind of writing systems of the human race, 
I expect that some day some questions will be mixed with maya numerals.



--
luigi

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