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  #31  
Old July 24th 19, 12:26 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.os.windows-10
R.Wieser
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Default What method do YOU use to create your printable personal family calendar?

Apd,

"Than" is used when comparing; e.g. "greater than one" or
"rather than this". Otherwise use "Then" when something
follows; e.g. "if this is true then do that"


"Than" compares, "then" is about a sequential order. Sounds easy when you
put it like that. :-)

Thanks for the explanation. Don't count on me doing it right from now on,
but I certainly /try/ to remember.

Regards,
Rudy Wieser


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  #32  
Old July 24th 19, 01:11 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Default What method do YOU use to create your printable personal family calendar?

"R.Wieser" wrote:
Apd,
"Than" is used when comparing; e.g. "greater than one" or
"rather than this". Otherwise use "Then" when something
follows; e.g. "if this is true then do that"


"Than" compares, "then" is about a sequential order. Sounds easy when you
put it like that. :-)

Thanks for the explanation. Don't count on me doing it right from now on,
but I certainly /try/ to remember.


As a programmer, you should not find it too difficult. Think of how
greater-than () or less-than () symbols and the if-then-else
statement are used.


  #33  
Old July 24th 19, 01:29 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Default grammar etc. (was: What method do YOU use to create your printable personal family calendar?)

"R.Wieser" wrote

| I somehow already got that feeling, but even when trying it out in my mind
I
| had no clue which one was the correct one. :-\

Then implies time or "in that case".
Than implies comparison.

If the apples are harder than rocks then it must
be earlier than September. If that's the case then
I won't pick them for more than a month.

My dictionary also lists a second use of than but
it's archaic, or maybe used occasionally in writing,
but not in spoken language:

"Scarcely had I seen her than she spoke to me."

I copied the example from the dictionary because it's
a very specific usage that's hard to get right. It's
especially confusing because it implies time, but
the choice of "than" is justified by a comparison of
sorts: The two facts are unexpected. The statement
isn't focused on the woman having spoken but on
the unexpected, possibly hasty and unsuitable, way
that she spoke quickly.

Funny how the people who take cheap shots
at others almost always then hide under a false
blanket of superiority, as Kenny M did. I don't think
I've ever seen anyone use "whoosh" when it wasn't
an evasion. It's also rude. ("Whoosh! You idiot! You
missed my point altogether. But I won't explain
because I missed it, too! So I'll just call you an idiot.")

I hitchhiked around Europe in the 70s and found the
Dutch to be the easiest people to talk to. So many
people spoke English that I didn't have much trouble.
I even met a very nice man who had pictures of himself
in German SS uniform, proudly displayed on his mantle.
He blurted "Kennedy!" and gave me a thumbs-up. (Strange
how quickly things had changed in just 30 years. And I
was too young to understand what that uniform signified.
I just knew the SS as the bad guys in TV shows.) His
son, who'd given me a ride, spoke English like an American.

But virtually all Dutch I met spoke perfect English. They
explained that they studied 5 languages in school and
that all of those languages were child's play compared to
their own.


  #34  
Old July 24th 19, 02:21 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.os.windows-10
R.Wieser
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Default What method do YOU use to create your printable personal family calendar?

Apd,

Think of how greater-than () or less-than ()
symbols and the if-then-else statement are used.


You're sure that isn't "if-thAn-else" :-p

But thanks, such a "real-world" link should make it easier (or at all) to
remember.

Regards,
Rudy Wieser


  #35  
Old July 24th 19, 03:20 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Default grammar etc. (was: What method do YOU use to create your printable personal family calendar?)

Mayayana,

If the apples are harder than rocks then it must
be earlier than September. If that's the case then
I won't pick them for more than a month.


Nice sentence. Won't be able to remember it correctly though (too easy to
change a "then" into a "than" or vise-verse)

"Scarcely had I seen her than she spoke to me."

I copied the example from the dictionary because it's
a very specific usage that's hard to get right.
[snip]


:-) Yep, definitily not going to get that one right. Ever.

The explanation you gave (copied?) does sound credible, but all I see is a
sequential event.

Funny how the people who take cheap shots
at others almost always then hide under a false
blanket of superiority, as Kenny M did.


It started with him going grammar nazi on me in response to me pointing out
that he claimed stuff he had no basis for.

Though part of the problem might be that I often forget to put my kid gloves
on when mentioning clinical observations.

The sad thing is that I just wanted to make him aware that he already got
sucked into AGHs style of evoking responses.

I don't think I've ever seen anyone use "whoosh"
when it wasn't an evasion.


I have. Mostly in response to someone missing the point of a joke (or
example).

It's also rude. ("Whoosh! You idiot! You
missed my point altogether. But I won't explain
because I missed it, too! So I'll just call you an idiot.")


In his case ? Yep. A school example of someone who tries to bluff himself
outof having made a mistake - with the covering-up attempt being a larger
mistake than the origional one ... :-\

Mistakes will be made. As someone long ago once said "what defines you is
not /that/ you make mistakes, but how you deal with them".

Regards,
Rudy Wieser


  #36  
Old July 24th 19, 04:52 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Default grammar etc.

Mayayana wrote:
[...]
Funny how the people who take cheap shots
at others almost always then hide under a false
blanket of superiority, as Kenny M did. I don't think
I've ever seen anyone use "whoosh" when it wasn't
an evasion. It's also rude. ("Whoosh! You idiot! You
missed my point altogether. But I won't explain
because I missed it, too! So I'll just call you an idiot.")


I sometimes use it, but I only use it on real, certified. idiots! :-)
I'm sure you can come up with someone in that class.

I hitchhiked around Europe in the 70s and found the
Dutch to be the easiest people to talk to. So many
people spoke English that I didn't have much trouble.
I even met a very nice man who had pictures of himself
in German SS uniform, proudly displayed on his mantle.
He blurted "Kennedy!" and gave me a thumbs-up. (Strange
how quickly things had changed in just 30 years. And I
was too young to understand what that uniform signified.
I just knew the SS as the bad guys in TV shows.) His
son, who'd given me a ride, spoke English like an American.

But virtually all Dutch I met spoke perfect English. They
explained that they studied 5 languages in school and
that all of those languages were child's play compared to
their own.


5 languages was probably stretching it. Normally French, German,
English and of course Dutch. And Greek and Latin on a Gymnasium, etc..

And indeed, Dutch isn't a lanuguage, it's a throat disease.
  #37  
Old July 24th 19, 07:00 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Default very OT: grammar etc. (was: What method do YOU use to create your printable personal family calendar?)

In message , R.Wieser
writes:
John,

You speak it like a native. (Well, not quite: natives make more mistakes!)


:-) Thanks.


Sometimes that's a givaway for non-native speakers: they make fewer
mistakes. (One of the best-scripted examples I've come across recently
is in the American TV series "NCIS"; the character Ziva David, who is
Israeli, speaks [American] English with just the right level of
differences: it's obviously been thought about hard. [Plus she doesn't
use contractions, and gets idiomatic references wrong, but that latter
is just for comic effect.])
[]
Hah! Than you never tried Dutch! It sometimes seems we have mor
exceptions to a rule than stuff that falls within it. :-)


I have a passing familiarity - oddly, mostly with its written form: when
my parents were moved from Dortmund to Mülheim/Ruhr, we became within
range of Dutch TV, which showed a lot of English (well, mostly American)
material, with the original soundtrack but with Dutch subtitles (this
would have been in the '70s).

And I know about the odd noun-gender thing.

But at least, like most western European languages, it is fairly
phonetic, once one has learnt the rules: I can take a piece of French,
German, or I think Dutch, and read it out reasonably correctly, even if
I don't understand it (I think Spanish or Italian too). Anyone who's
followed the first link I posted in this thread will know English is
_not_ phonetic!

But yes. Not because of the language, but because non face-to-face
communications causes subtile "/what/ did he just say ?" feedback to get
lost - and with it a signal that I should re-evaluate what I just said.


Even face-to-face: I often think our TV and radio interviewers use far
too complex language (I think the word "given" should be banned!) and
especially, don't simplify their language when interviewing a foreigner,
which I think is unforgivable. (I'm talking UK here - I've not seen
American anchorpersons interviewing foreigners, so can't say for there.)

[I fear you chose the wrong one


Shucks. Now you say it I see that I did (and how). Stupid. Lost sight of
the whole line while focussing on the word.


It was a subtlety, which someone who didn't know that "did" - for
emphasis - was right, wouldn't have had to deal with.

(-:. It's nice to find someone who _does_ think such things matter.


I do. Not enough to make me anywhere near to a grammar nazi, but (maybe
just) because I want to get a message across as clear as I can.


That's what I aim for. And try to help others to.

Thanks for the corrections. Now lets hope I will remember them ...


(-:

Regards,
Rudy Wieser


John
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  #38  
Old July 24th 19, 07:10 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Default grammar etc.

In message , Frank Slootweg
writes:
[]
And indeed, Dutch isn't a lanuguage, it's a throat disease.


LOL! Stlll chuckling. Saved (with attribution) to my quotes file.
A friend at university lived in NL (though I think he was British), and
insisted on pronouncing anything Dutch with full phlegm - placenames,
and the Grolsh (beer) he liked.
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  #39  
Old July 24th 19, 07:51 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Default grammar etc.

"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote:
In message , Frank Slootweg
writes:
[]
And indeed, Dutch isn't a lanuguage, it's a throat disease.


Oops! That, "lanuguage" *was* a typo. Anyway, Dutch isn't a lanuguage
either! :-)

LOL! Stlll chuckling. Saved (with attribution) to my quotes file.


You're welcome. I've been collecting some of yours in my quotes file.

And, as they say:

"If it ain't Dutch, it ain't much!"

A friend at university lived in NL (though I think he was British), and
insisted on pronouncing anything Dutch with full phlegm - placenames,
and the Grolsh (beer) he liked.


I live in 's-Gravenhage [1]. Get your tongue around *that* one!

[1] Also called Den Haag, which is much easier, and, to please You Guys,
The Hague.
  #40  
Old July 24th 19, 08:33 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.os.windows-10
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"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in message
...
And indeed, Dutch isn't a lanuguage, it's a throat disease.


LOL! Stlll chuckling. Saved (with attribution) to my quotes file.
A friend at university lived in NL (though I think he was British), and
insisted on pronouncing anything Dutch with full phlegm - placenames, and
the Grolsh (beer) he liked.


Not for nothing are the Dutch-speaking people of Belgium called Phlegmish
;-)

  #41  
Old July 24th 19, 11:15 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.os.windows-10
J. P. Gilliver (John)[_7_]
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In message , Frank Slootweg
writes:
"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote:
In message , Frank Slootweg
writes:
[]
And indeed, Dutch isn't a lanuguage, it's a throat disease.


Oops! That, "lanuguage" *was* a typo. Anyway, Dutch isn't a lanuguage
either! :-)


I didn't spot that (so it's in my quotes file with the error!).

LOL! Stlll chuckling. Saved (with attribution) to my quotes file.


You're welcome. I've been collecting some of yours in my quotes file.


Quite happy to share the whole file if I have an email to send it to.
It's only about 63K - I edit it with an ancient text editor that has a
limit (just _under_ 64K), meaning I have to delete to add, which keeps
it fresh.
[]
I live in 's-Gravenhage [1]. Get your tongue around *that* one!


Stand clear!
[]
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  #42  
Old July 25th 19, 12:43 AM posted to alt.comp.freeware,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.os.linux
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Default What method do YOU use to create your printable personal family calendar?

On Tue, 23 Jul 2019 04:33:37 -0400, Paul wrote:

I compiled it (pcal-4.11.0.tgz) from source, in MinGW.
No, the makefile is not set up for that.

I did a test run afterwards. ( pcal.exe 260,884 bytes )

pcal -P tabloid -o calendar.ps

Here is the resulting output. A vanilla calendar.

https://i.postimg.cc/4yNG3MpC/calendar.gif

Click the "download original", to get the full (300DPI) resolution.

The output is postscript but I rasterized it so
people could see a sample, without actually compiling
the damn thing.

pcal development might have started in 1991.
Last edits are 2007.
Today is 2019.
That's 16 years development, 12 years decay.

*******

In the Makefile, change this chunk...

ifeq ($(OS),DJGPP) # DOS+DJGPP
OS_NAME = "DOS+DJGPP"
D_BUILD_ENV = -DBUILD_ENV_DJGPP
PCAL = pcal.exe
CC = gcc
PACK = :
else # Unix
OS_NAME = "Unix"
D_BUILD_ENV = -DBUILD_ENV_UNIX
PCAL = pcal
CC = /usr/bin/gcc
PACK = compress
# PACK = pack
# PACK = gzip
endif

to a simpler:

OS_NAME = "DOS+DJGPP"
D_BUILD_ENV = -DBUILD_ENV_DJGPP
PCAL = pcal.exe
CC = gcc
PACK = :

I did "BUILD_ENV_DJGPP=0" in msys, but that wasn't
seemingly getting passed, so it was quicker to just
hack it out and force the environment variables so
it could find the gcc in MinGW.

In writefil.c I changed this:

#include pwd.h

to this:

/* include pwd.h */

because MinGW is not POSIX, there is no getpwuid and
friends, and the function in question is vanity bull****
(has nothing to do with printing a calendar).

Now, further down in writefil.c, *remove* this section. Delete it.

/* Generate "For" and "Routing" comments if user name is known... */

#if defined (BUILD_ENV_UNIX) || defined (BUILD_ENV_DJGPP)
if ((pw = getpwuid(getuid())) != NULL && strcmp(pw-pw_name, "nobody" /* anonymous account */) != 0) {
printf("%%%%For: %s\n", pw-pw_name);
#ifdef BUILD_ENV_UNIX
/* The 'pw-pw_gecos' element ('real' user name) is not available in
MS-DOS or DOS+DJGPP build environments... */
strcpy(tmp, pw-pw_gecos);
if ((p = strchr(tmp, ',')) != NULL) *p = '\0';
printf("%%%%Routing: %s\n", tmp);
#endif
}
#endif

That should be enough to get a "make" to work in MinGW (32 bit version).
The pcal.exe is in the exec folder (you have to watch the make output
to figure out where it went :-/ )

The program over the years, has become a bit more portable, so
at least a vanilla calendar can be output. I'm not going to
debug

make install

as I don't know if there is a point to bothering with that.

If you look at the "doc" folder, the parameters you can pass
to the stupid thing are endless. I hope someone has worked
examples somewhere, because it would take me all week to
figure out what to do :-/

Paul
Copy "calendar_us.txt" as "calendar" and place
in the same directory as "pcal.exe".

The program looks for ".calendar", which would be a workable
choice on Linux, and it also looks for "calendar",
which is the working choice on a Windows system.

Then try:

pcal.exe -P tabloid -n Helvetica-Narrow/18 -o calendar.ps

and the calendar will then show "Independence Day" as
July 4th.

The program was probably invented in B&W printer era,
as the PostScript "colors" it refers to, have simple numeric values.
For example "0.8/0.9" are likely two grayscale values.

I don't see any way to add color portraits of puppies
or kittens, so you're on your own there (use your colored
pencils).

Someone may have compiled this for Cygwin, but that doesn't
necessarily mean it was an official package of Cygwin
and can be fetched with the Cygwin package methods. It's
probably less troublesome in Cygwin to do it. You would
then need a minimum of three files, the pcal.exe plus
the two DLLs that Cygwin uses for runtime support.

Paul


Hi Paul,

This note is short as it goes to all the original groups - not just the
poorly archived Win10 ng where most of the suggestions are being explored.

Thanks for being one of a half dozen who (a) understood the question, and,
(b) who offered a purposefully helpful cross-platform solution of modifying
the Makefile in order to successfully compile the ancient Pcal source code
(1991 to 2007) on a current desktop OS.

Here is the resulting output. A vanilla calendar.
https://i.postimg.cc/4yNG3MpC/calendar.gif


Others who understood the question well enough to share purposefully
helpful technical insight were Keith Nuttle (TB/Lightning), RatchetJaw
(LibreOffice calendar creator), Apd (pcal 16-bit issues), G Ross (Calendar
Creator), owl (pcval) Michael Logies & Zaidy036 (Excel calendar creator &
Birthday Alarm calendar creation, & pyotr filipivich (Open Office Calc)).

Just some of the helpful proposed solutions currently under test, are
https://www.techwalla.com/articles/how-do-i-create-a-calendar-in-openoffice
https://extensions.libreoffice.org/templates/calendar-creator
https://www.calendarlabs.com/excel-calendar/
http://pcal.sourceforge.net/
https://www.birthdayalarm.com/
https://www.calendar-12.com/printable_calendar/2019
https://filehippo.com/download_ams-photo-calendar-creator/
https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/calendar/
https://www.rainlendar.net/cms/index.php
https://print-a-calendar.com/july-2019
https://www.vertex42.com/calendars/printable-calendars.html
https://extensions.openoffice.org/en/project/calendar-template
etc.

The solution will be of general use to almost everyone, where this note is
simply to say I will explore all valid suggested solutions & report back in
the Win10 group the cross platform successful results after testing.

--
(1) I've chosen to ignore the trolls, choosing, instead, to follow Mike
Easter's advice to provide a cross-platform solution to the Win10 ng.
  #43  
Old July 25th 19, 10:19 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.os.linux
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The so called "Lions" roared because the mouse squeaked !
Over and under killed.
What a waste of web ink.
Nothing better to do.

  #44  
Old July 27th 19, 02:50 PM posted to alt.comp.freeware,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.os.linux
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Default What method do YOU use to create your printable personal family calendar?

On Mon, 22 Jul 2019 15:00:17 +0000, Kenny McCormack wrote:

In article , Arlen G. Holder
wrote:
*What method do YOU use to create your printable personal family
calendar?* 1. Do you have a program that creates a printable calendar?
(this is best) 2. Do you have a Microsoft Office calendar template? (this
would be nice) 3. Do you modify an existing calendar file? (this may work
if it's editable)


I'm sorry.

This has *WHAT* to do with linux? (The only group I read to which this
was posted)


Nothing, it's another trolling ****wit.

Newsgroups:
alt.comp.freeware,microsoft.public.windowsxp.gener al,alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.os.linux

thread killed
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Old July 27th 19, 07:52 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.os.linux
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On Sat, 27 Jul 2019 14:50:17 +0100, William Poaster wrote:

another trolling ****wit.

killed

*plonk*
 




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