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| -rw-r--r-- | tex/context/sample/common/carrol.tex | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | tex/context/sample/common/douglas.tex | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | tex/context/sample/common/khatt-en.tex | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | tex/context/sample/common/knuth.tex | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | tex/context/sample/common/samples.tex | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | tex/context/sample/common/sapolsky.tex | 11 |
6 files changed, 22 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/tex/context/sample/common/carrol.tex b/tex/context/sample/common/carrol.tex new file mode 100644 index 000000000..1b653d69c --- /dev/null +++ b/tex/context/sample/common/carrol.tex @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +The fraction of fossil olfactory receptor genes is significantly +higher in all species with full color vision. This suggests that +the evolution of trichromatic vision --- which allows these +primates to detect food, mates, and danger with visual cues --- +has reduced their reliance on the sense of smell. diff --git a/tex/context/sample/common/douglas.tex b/tex/context/sample/common/douglas.tex index 838c6d24d..0aa9486e6 100644 --- a/tex/context/sample/common/douglas.tex +++ b/tex/context/sample/common/douglas.tex @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ of his forthcoming books|=|from the typesetting and layout down to the very shapes of the letters! Seldom has an author had anything remotely like this power to control the final appearance of his or her work. Knuth's \TEX\ -typesetting system has become well|-|known and as available in +typesetting system has become well|-|known and is available in many countries around the world. By contrast, his \METAFONT\ system for designing families of typefaces has not become as well known or as available. diff --git a/tex/context/sample/common/khatt-en.tex b/tex/context/sample/common/khatt-en.tex index f994513e7..52891af25 100644 --- a/tex/context/sample/common/khatt-en.tex +++ b/tex/context/sample/common/khatt-en.tex @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib said to his scribe ʿUbaydullāh ibn Abī Rāfiʿ: -your inkwell before you, sharpen the edge of your pen, make sure +ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib said to his scribe ʿUbaydullāh ibn Abī Rāfiʿ: Set +down your inkwell before you, sharpen the edge of your pen, make sure there is open space between the lines, and set your letter|-|spacing closely. Now {\em that} is the way to make the script shine! diff --git a/tex/context/sample/common/knuth.tex b/tex/context/sample/common/knuth.tex index 30b6310cc..2f6a2f8e7 100644 --- a/tex/context/sample/common/knuth.tex +++ b/tex/context/sample/common/knuth.tex @@ -13,4 +13,4 @@ But a system cannot be successful if it is too strongly influenced by a single person. Once the initial design is complete and fairly robust, the real test begins as people with many different viewpoints undertake their own -experiments. +experiments. diff --git a/tex/context/sample/common/samples.tex b/tex/context/sample/common/samples.tex index 0201ab318..8d1477e1c 100644 --- a/tex/context/sample/common/samples.tex +++ b/tex/context/sample/common/samples.tex @@ -48,6 +48,8 @@ used in testing bibliographic references and citations. \NC waltham.tex \NC David Waltham \NC Lucky Planet, why earth is exceptional and what that means for life in the universe, Icon Books Ltd, London, 2014, p. 168 \NC \NR +\NC sapolsky.tex \NC Robert M. Sapolsky \NC Why Zebras Don't Have Ulsters, means for life in the universe, + St Martin's Press, 2004 \NC \NR \stoptabulate % Tufte: This quote will always produce hyphenated text, apart from the content, diff --git a/tex/context/sample/common/sapolsky.tex b/tex/context/sample/common/sapolsky.tex new file mode 100644 index 000000000..37c3ae4f3 --- /dev/null +++ b/tex/context/sample/common/sapolsky.tex @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +Agriculture is a fairly recent human invention, and in many ways it was one of +the great stupid moves of all time. Hunter|-|gatherers have thousands of wild +sources of food to subsist on. Agriculture changed that all, generating an +overwhelming reliance on a few dozen domesticated food sources, making you +extremely vulnerable to the next famine, the next locust infestation, the next +potato blight. Agriculture allowed for stockpiling of surplus resources and thus, +inevitably, the unequal stockpiling of them --- stratification of society and +the invention of classes. Thus, it allowed for the invention of poverty. I think +that the punch line of the primate|-|human difference is that when humans +invented poverty, they came up with a way of subjugating the low|-|ranking like +nothing ever seen before in the primate world. |