Re: installing new packages under mactex and texshop

Simon Spiegel <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

(Rowland McDonnell) said:

Simon Spiegel <simon@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[snip]

As I said, I'm not going to argue with you anymore. Anyone who doubts
that you are completely uncapabale of a proper discussion can easily
verify it by googling your name either in this or other newsgroups.
There are a myriads of threads where you've proven your incapability of
leading a normal discussion.

Absolutely - the sighting of a single white swan proves that black swans
cannot exist.

And any black swan that exists in a world where white swans can be seen
is a figment of the imagination.[1]

Your command of logic is masterly; however, I suggest that you take your
personal comments about me elsewhere, since they are entirely off topic
in this technical newsgroup.

It's a question of basic statistics. It's an empirical fact everyone
can verify that a thread in which you engage has a very high
probability in turning into pointless flamewar and in people giving up
unnerved.

My god!

So you have spent time analysing all my tens of thousands of Usenet
posts in thousands of threads over the last 20 or so years[1]? You have
read all those threads, analysed their progress, catalogued them
according to type, and done the stats?

Do remind me to run away if you ever get within a hundred yards - you
sound like one of the crazier kinds of stalker.

Since you've done the work (or at least claim to), would you care to
present your results on the Web somewhere for checking? But not on this
newsgroup: it's for technical discussions of comp.text.tex. Most people
aren't as obsessed as you so they won't put the time in analysing my
posts as you have, but since you've apparently done all the hard work
and think it'd be useful for the world to find out how much of an evil
monster I am, how about it?

(I should point out to you that `high probability' is not the same as
the `absolute certainty' which you initially claimed. Was your initial
claim mere hyperbole, or was it an indication of just how extreme is
your obsession with me? I do not claim to know your mind: I ask merely
for information.)

I am rather curious that you don't seem very interested in using this
newsgroup for its intended purpose, and I'm sure that's rather annoying
for many people.

I did previously suggest:

"Perhaps you'd like to email me your concerns about my personality and
behaviour? That way, you'd not be making a damned nuisance of yourself
in this technical newsgroup."

Perhaps there's a bug in your newsreader such that it failed to display
that part of my message?

But to try to keep this on topic, I wonder if you could help me out with
a minor problem? A poster to this newsgroup told me that it's perfectly
possible to set up Babel to default to UK English hyphenation. I've
failed to find the method in the documentation, and have so far been
unable to get anyone provide me with even a pointer to the correct
method.

Could you provide me with this information about LaTeX? A pointer,
maybe, to the relevant documentation?

If you'd rather just carry on posting personal abuse at me, that's okay
with me: I'll carry on gently trying to help you get over your problem
with me.

Rowland.

[1] If so, impressive, because even I couldn't tell you what usernames
I used back in the early days of my Usenet use.

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