On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Christophe Grandsire wrote:

> Hi everyone!

Welcome back!

> After three weeks of well-deserved holidays, among which two weeks spent in
> the beautiful, if largely overheated ;))) , Loiret (we had 42 degrees of
> averge for the two weeks, and 55 degrees in the sun - and I'm talking
> Celsius here :)) -),

Eurgh! 55 degrees!? I've been enjoying maximums of 15 and rain! (Yes, I've
been enjoying it. Much nicer than summer. And rain is better than no
rain.)

> and one week seeing my family in Normandy, and a few days to recover
> from the holidays (and I thought that holidays were meant for rest
> ;))) ), I'm officially back on Internet, and thus on the different
> mailing lists I'm participating in (chiefly Conlang of course :)) ).

Welcome back! I hope you had a good holiday, in spite of your need to
recover from them :P

> Conlangly speaking, I must confess I did next to nothing during those
> holidays :)) .

Whoever has time when they're on holidays? :P

> I've just begun a new description of Maggel. The language itself is
> not changing, I just reread my notes and found so many contradictions
> and loopholes that I had to begin them again. It allowed me to update
> the Maggel script, by adding a lot of evil ligatures I hadn't thought
> about before (especially plenty of ambiguous ones :)) ).

Can't wait to see 'em!

> Apart from that, people who read my METAFONTtutorial and/or
> participate in the LaTeX-for-Conlangers mailing list will be happy to
> know that I enjoyed my stay in France to buy the "METAFONT - Guide
> pratique", the only other book besides the METAFONTbook devoted to
> METAFONT, and which happens to be a French book. Another source for
> writing the METAFONTtutorial should result in a better tutorial (I'm
> busy correcting it by the way :)) ).

Oh, good :) (I still have to get around to making any fonts... any
progress on the 48 hour day?)

> So, how's life been on Conlang since I left? (Jan van Steenbergen told me
> that it has been quiet. What? Does that mean that you guys really need me
> to break our daily 100-message limit? ;))))))) )

It's definitely been quiet. Maybe we should ban you from the list: then
we'll never reach the limit :P (j/k)

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