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   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Wed, 9 Jul 2025 00:16:56 +0100, Peter Flynn wrote:   
      
   > On 26/06/2025 01:51, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   >>   
   >> I did routines for things like splitting out the digits of a number so   
   >> each would fit, nicely centred, in its own box -- does LaTEX make this   
   >> sort of thing easy?   
   >   
   > I wrote a couple of macros to do this. Not hard, but fiddly, and most   
   > forms are internally inconsistent in that the digit boxes are not always   
   > the same size or shape.   
      
   This wasn’t hard in Python. Even if the digit boxes weren’t regularly   
   arranged (they were), it would just have meant manually specifying the   
   coordinates of each box.   
      
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