IRC log for #brlcad on 20070922

00:13.37 starseeker yukonbob: Ah :-). I should mention this is my first encounter with Docbook, so I'm feeling my way as I go
00:24.47 yukonbob starseeker: what tools are you using to do your work?
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00:36.19 starseeker nedit and the docbook website
00:37.55 thing0 hey yall
00:39.01 starseeker yukonbob: What tools do you prefer?
00:40.42 thing0 hehe
00:40.45 thing0 I hate all tools
00:40.47 thing0 ;)
00:40.48 yukonbob starseeker: I'm using xemacs (psgml/xml mode), openjade, jadetex, www for reference...
00:40.52 thing0 nothing works how I want it to work
00:40.59 thing0 but it takes to much effort to fix them all
00:41.00 thing0 ;)
00:41.02 yukonbob thing0: you need new tools ;)
00:41.28 thing0 yeah
00:41.33 yukonbob starseeker: ...dvipdf, xpdf, and some simple homebrew Makefiles
00:41.34 thing0 but there is nothing on the market
00:41.41 thing0 which meets all my requirements
00:41.44 thing0 I am too picky
00:41.46 thing0 ;)
00:43.22 thing0 why is it so hard to have a customisable right click menu
00:43.32 thing0 or be able to reconfigure dialog boxes
00:47.22 starseeker Erm. OK, I wonder how different the nxml and psgml/xml mode identing is
00:48.10 starseeker yukonbob: I'll try commiting the updated formatting using nXML mode (which has already spotted a couple xml errors for me :-))
00:48.23 starseeker I haven't moved beyond that to trying to process as I go
00:48.43 starseeker I'm using the full txt file to guide me
00:52.22 yukonbob ?full txt file
00:52.45 starseeker The complete conversion of VolII to txt
00:52.48 starseeker all in one file
00:52.54 yukonbob ahh...
00:53.10 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: 03starseeker * 10brlcad/doc/book/VolumeII.xml:
00:53.10 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: Used Emacs nXML mode to update indent, fixed a few problems. Using
00:53.10 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: [Enter] instead of <Enter> for the command notation to avoid the editor
00:53.10 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: seeing <Enter> as a tag.
00:53.11 starseeker It sound's like you're ahead of me in the tools game
00:54.44 yukonbob if you go jade-route, I can give you my makefile which will save fsck-ing around and streamline the process.
00:54.53 starseeker Sounds good
00:55.12 starseeker brlcad will probably select his preferred toolset in the end, but it shouldn't matter for the conversion process
00:56.23 yukonbob same as I'm using...
00:56.36 starseeker OK. How different is our tagging style?
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01:18.54 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: 03starseeker * 10brlcad/doc/book/VolumeII.xml:
01:18.54 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: yukonbob spotted that commands should use <command> rather than
01:18.54 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: <literal>.
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01:51.10 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: 03starseeker * 10brlcad/doc/book/VolumeII.xml: More markup - 1st formal table.
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04:31.05 yukonbob starseeker: you still on?
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08:38.36 Z80-Boy brlcad: alt-f to open the File menu collides with alt-f which makes the upper elft pane active
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08:39.58 Z80-Boy Plus the normal vectors seem the be calculated wrong for either arbn or cylinder
08:40.35 Z80-Boy because I have a cylinder which is smoothly joined to a piece of arbn, and it makes an abrupt change in colour.
08:42.29 Z80-Boy Is this allowed to happen?
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09:19.35 Z80-Boy Oh, the grid spacing can be set to milimeters and then it is usable!
09:19.41 Z80-Boy It was just in a different menu than the grid.
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09:45.33 Z80-Boy brl-cad is showing corrupt geometry for me
09:45.58 Z80-Boy I have two parts - tee.g and ell.g and a group of them, tee_ell.g where one part is rotated just by swapping and inverting axes
09:46.14 Z80-Boy the group is showing the part completely mangled, things protruding which not exists, completely different shape
09:46.22 Z80-Boy I checked that the matrix is not weird and made it again
09:46.51 Z80-Boy Sometimes mged even hangs when trying to display the group and has to be restarted to display
09:47.27 Z80-Boy On the raytrace the protruding thing is missing -> raytrace shows something else than mged
09:49.42 Z80-Boy I need someone to try to reproduce it because it doesn't make sense to post a bugreport when it won't happen on a different OS
09:55.01 Z80-Boy oh, now brl-cad crashed
09:55.01 Z80-Boy seems that brl-cad crashes or hangs every time I open the tee_ell.g in red and change the matrix
10:11.10 Z80-Boy Now it doesn't crash or hang, but it doesn't redraw anything - the old drawing remains
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10:15.34 Z80-Boy It seems to be caused by a bug in the arbn tranform code
10:15.47 Z80-Boy if you take an arbn and mirror the x axis, you get something completely different.
10:18.29 Z80-Boy Bug isolated...
10:19.08 Z80-Boy Who wants the .g?
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10:26.56 Z80-Boy brlcad: I have just sent you the bug isolate to your @users.sourceforge.net address.
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10:27.28 MinuteElectron You could just use the sf bug tracker.
10:27.54 Z80-Boy "(-) Error - Choose a Group ERROR - No group_id was chosen"
10:28.14 MinuteElectron Oh, I see.
10:28.22 MinuteElectron You must choose a group I guess.
10:31.41 Z80-Boy Wohoo, I changed my 123456 password back to my universal password and SF doesn't complain :)
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10:42.17 Z80-Boy MinuteElectron: what version of brl-cad do you have?
10:42.57 Z80-Boy MinuteElectron: can you try the file? https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1800148&group_id=105292&atid=640802
10:45.18 MinuteElectron I don't have BRL-CAD.
10:46.54 MinuteElectron I would if I had an internet capable Linux PC, but I don't and can't work out how to use my removable hard disk on Command Line Linux.
10:47.41 thing2 hmm
10:48.05 Z80-Boy thing0: do you have brl-cad?
10:49.27 thing0 neg
10:49.37 thing0 shitty net connection
10:49.44 thing0 will probably install when I get back
10:50.00 thing0 cause I have just about had it with commercial CAD ;)
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11:44.31 Z80-Boy The arbn doesn't seem to have had much attention by the developers
11:44.43 Z80-Boy not only it mirrors badly, but it also calculates the lighting badly.
11:56.36 Z80-Boy The sourceforge is extremely slow
11:56.43 Z80-Boy transferring data from ssl-analytics.google.com...
11:57.13 Z80-Boy Now it shows a bugreport as an empty page
11:58.02 Z80-Boy Now it uploaded a file twice...
11:58.07 Z80-Boy Ultimate crap...
11:59.18 Z80-Boy Firefox: You have chosen to open bad_shading.png which is image/png. It offers save or download, but not display!
12:04.30 Z80-Boy So now there are 2 bugreports on sourceforge with screenshots.
12:05.26 Z80-Boy http://sourceforge.net/tracker/download.php?group_id=105292&atid=640802&file_id=246705&aid=1800148
12:58.27 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: 03starseeker * 10brlcad/doc/book/VolumeII.xml: Markup through Lesson 2.
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15:09.04 Z80-Boy 38 azimuth 15 elephantion off of front view
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18:20.28 Z80-Boy dbconcat segfaults...
18:21.51 Z80-Boy ASCII import also segfaults...
18:22.05 Z80-Boy very helpful
18:26.24 Z80-Boy ls claims to accept -A but doesn't...
21:13.27 Maloeran Hey brlcad, just in case you want to compare, this is kind of installation we have in Montreal for bicycles : http://www.rayforce.net/bicycle-lanes-small.jpg
21:14.08 Maloeran This really is a bridge exclusively for bicycles and pedestrians. I wasn't kidding when I was comparing with Maryland's lanes...
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22:16.26 ``Erik md is too ... populated... bikers take over streets at times, in herds
22:22.20 ``Erik boggling that 'candide' was censored and banned as 'obscene' :(
22:22.48 yukonbob point your xmms to: http://207.200.96.231:8012
22:22.51 Maloeran It directly attacked religions and theism in rather... sensitive times
22:22.56 yukonbob (soma)
22:23.29 ``Erik on to frank zappa (willy the pimp)
22:23.46 ``Erik mal: it was banned in the 20th century.
22:23.52 Maloeran Woah!
22:23.56 Maloeran I didn't know that
22:24.33 ``Erik upenn keeps an amusing list of banned works in supposed enlightened nations
22:24.45 ``Erik canuckia has a good fistful, btw
22:25.09 Maloeran Really? I can't imagine anything of the sort being banned here
22:28.32 ``Erik http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/banned-books.html
22:29.32 Maloeran There isn't much about Canada in there, besides banning "hate speech" books, which I can understand
23:59.32 starseeker you've been going all day?
23:59.49 yukonbob pretty much -- ~6 hours I guess (!)
23:59.59 starseeker eeeep!

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