Quantum-dot Cellular Automata (QCA) is a prominent paradigm that is considered to continue its dominance in thecomputation at deep sub-micron regime in nanotechnology. The QCA realizations of five-input Majority Voter based multilevel parity generator circuits have been introduced in recent years. However, no attention has been paid towards the QCA instantiation of the generic (n-bit) even and ...

Quantum-dot Cellular Automata (QCA) is a prominent paradigm that is considered to continue its dominance in thecomputation at deep sub-micron regime in nanotechnology. The QCA realizations of five-input Majority Voter based multilevel parity generator circuits have been introduced in recent years. However, no attention has been paid towards the QCA instantiation of the generic (n-bit) even and ...

This third installment of my tour covers three more distributions that are supported via the standard LTEX bug report mechanism described in Part 1. The mfnfss distribution provides LTEX support for some popular Metafont produced fonts, that do not otherwise have any LTEX interface. The psnfss distribution consists of LTEX packages giving access to PostScript fonts. The third distribution in th...

There are several facets of the creation of LTEX documents and METAPOST graphics that deter users from initially trying both LTEX and METAPOST. These include the basic structure of the source files, the compilation of the source files, and the conversion of the output to a desired format. Furthermore, many TEX users often desire to create 2D and 3D graphs of functions for inclusion into their d...

The mathematical notion of “category” in the context of markup languages raises the idea of widespread use of reliable automatic translations between markup languages. LTEX profiles, which are dialects of LTEX with a fixed command vocabulary where all macro expansions must be effective in that vocabulary, are suitable domains for defining translations to other profiles and, where sensible, to o...

Both LTEX and HTML are languages that can express the structure of a document, and similarities between these two systems are shown. A detailed study is made of the LaTeX2HTML program, written by Nikos Drakos, that is today the most complete utility for translating LTEX code into HTML, providing a quasi-automatic translation for most elements. A discussion of a few other tools for translating b...

TEX, LTEX, and BibTEX files are a common method of collaboration for computer science professionals. It is widely assumed by users that LTEX files are safe; that is, that no significant harm can come of running LTEX on an arbitrary computer. Unfortunately, this is not the case: In this article we describe how to exploit LTEX to build a virus that spreads between documents on the MiKTEX distribu...

In the previous article in this series I started by giving a description of the les in the `base' LTEX distribution. In part 2, I shall cover the `tools' and `graphics' distributions. These are distributed in the tools and graphics subdirectories of the CTAN directory macros/latex/packages. Although these les are not part of the minimal base distribution they should normally be included in the ...

We present an approach for recognising mathematical texts using an extensive LTEX symbol database and a novel recognition algorithm. The process consists essentially of three steps: Recognising the individual characters in a mathematical text by relating them to glyphs in the database of symbols, analysing the recognised glyphs to determine the closest corresponding LTEX symbol, and reassemblin...

I discovered LTEX more or less by accident, and I could not have estimated the benefits learning the typesetting system would confer. Here, I argue for the merits of LTEX from perspectives apart from/stemming out of typesetting.