I love my fountain pen, and I love LaTeX, but I think it's as well that I haven't found a way to combine them...
Day 1:
Just bought a new Progress Pen. Here's what the advertising brochure
says:
Congratulations on your purchase of the Millennium Progress Pen. This state-of-the-art fountain pen has a built-in typesetting engine based on the popular and powerful LaTeX program. Bring the typeset beauty of LaTeX to your handwritten documents!
How exciting!
Day 2:
Just booted my new pen. Waited an hour while it dialed up and
downloaded all the latest security patches. By that time, I forgot what
I was going to write.
Day 3:
I've decided to install Linux on the pen. Hope it goes well.
Day 4:
It didn't go well. Turns out that my pen nib is only supported by an
experimental kernel version, and it took some time to cross-compile the
kernel on my desktop (I didn't want to install the Pen version of
gcc). I'm going to try again this evening.
Day 5:
I wrote Hello World!
It took me a while to figure out that I
had to specify the document class before I could actually start typing,
though. Also, my pen kept complaining about a runaway argument the
first time I tried to make my document.
Day 6:
Today, I wrote a Makefile for my pen, so that I don't have to
remember as long a sequence of Morse code to be tapped into the button
at the top of the barrel in order to get the ink to start flowing.
Day 7:
With the help of The LaTeX companion, I figured out how to
adjust the margins when I write lists with my pen. I still haven't
figured out how to place figures, though.
Day 8:
I wrote a letter to a friend today. Won't she be surprised at how
clear my handwriting has become! I can produce neat documents so much
more quickly with my Progress Pen!
- Currently drinking: Coffee