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matter of copying it and embedding it where possible, and forking it if
unavoidable. DDOS resistance looks like it is going to need forking.
It implements ledbat, a protocol designed for applications that download
bulk data in the background, pushing the network close to its limits, while
still playing nice with TCP.
Implementing consensus over [µTP] is going to need [QUIC] style streams,
that can slow down or fail without the whole connection slowing down or
failing, though it might be easier to implement consensus that just calls
µTP for some tasks.
I have not investigated what implementing short fixed length streams over
[µTP] would involve. Bittorrent already necessarily does something mighty
like that. Maybe it just sequentializes everything. Which kind of makes
sense, a single concurrent process managing each connection is easier to
program and comprehend, even if it cannot give optimal performance.
Obviously it must have a request response layer, documented only in
source code. The question then is how it maps that layer onto a µTP
connection. You are going to have to copy, not just µTP, but that layer,
which should be part of µTP, but probably is not. You will have to
factorize that they probably not cleanly factorized.
Their request response layer is probably somewhat documented in
[BEP0055] I suspect that what I need is not just µTP, but the largest common factors of [BEP0055]
[BEP0055]:https://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0055.html
"BEP0055"
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# katex
title: >-
Writing and Editing Documentation
# katex
# Pandoc Markdown
...
# Organization
My stuff is currently an enormous pile of disorganized, and thus
inaccessible, documents.
The clean and elegant style of open source documentation always has a
header bar at the top, through which all documents can be accessed. And a
moderately sized logo and title at the top. I am thinking a rho, surrounded
by a flaming halo of green blue radial flames, followed by "Rhocoin"
Then a top level menu of five or six items, followed by lower level horizontal menus that depend on which higher level menus was selected.
The best layout I have seen the [wxWidgets style](https://docs.wxwidgets.org/3.0/functions.html){target="_blank"} which has multiple bars,
and when you clicked on entry in one bar, the lower bars changed.
wxSqlite3 used to have this style. Now, has a [single bar with multilevel drop downs](https://utelle.github.io/wxsqlite3/docs/html/index.html){target="_blank"} , as does the [SQLite3 style](https://sqlite.org/docs.html){target="_blank"} , of which it is a direct copy,
but SQLite3 style lacks a way to handle the enormous number of SQLite3
documents, which can only be handled by a multi level bar, or by a page
full of links
Libsodium, on the other hand, has a [left hand bar with drop downs](https://doc.libsodium.org/secret-key_cryptography){target="_blank"}. Which
is probably easier to implement, but that there is no documentation locally
installed suggests that it too is in some way server generated. Apache2 and
nginx similarly, and handle the enormous number of documents by
bringing up pages full of links. Which is OK, but means you do not have
navigation at your fingertips.]
This layout is in some way automatically generated on the server, which
sucks. Probably relies on server side include, which is the easiest way to
do it.The documentation needs to be in every install and every repository.
Thus wxWidgets documentation on the server has nice organizational
style, but on each person's individual installed copy, disorganized crap.
Client side include works like this:
```html
<script src="b.js" type="text/javascript">
</script>
```
Where the script b.js is:
```js
document.write("…")
document.write("…")
…
```
When encountered, the browser downloads the script “b.js”, executes
it, and prints any output that the script might generate as if it were
inline HTML.
Each bottom level subtree should be a directory, and each html document
in that directory should call the script which generates the horizontal bars
on the path from the root to it. The bash script that uses pandoc to generate
those documents from the markdown documents in that directory should
also generate the javascript, concatenating all the javascripts of the parent
directories into it.
Thus one final javascript file for each bottom level directory, which
generates a sequence of horizontal bars corresponding to the path to
that directory, followed by a horizontal bar for that directory.
One tricky bit is that you want the path highlighted. In which case it is
probably easier for the bash script, which is recursing through the tree of
files and keeps track of the path by which it got there in an enormous
string variable, to insert a direct copy of the header bar into each html file,
The directory name is what appears in the top level bars, and the final bar
is a possibly multiline bar that is the titles of all the documents in the directory
and any subdirectories.
# pandoc
Much documentation is in Pandoc markdown, because easier to write. But html
is easier to read, and allows superior control of appearance
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...
```
# Converting html source to markdown source
## Converting html source to markdown source
In bash
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git mv $fn.html $fn.md && cp $fn.md $fn.html && pandoc -s --to markdown-smart --eol=lf --wrap=preserve --verbose -o $fn.md $fn.html
```
# Math expressions and katex
## Math expressions and katex
Pandoc can render most maths markdown without needing katex, for example:
$${e}^{i\pi}+1=0$$
@ -170,7 +241,7 @@ So that the bash script file `./mkdoc.sh` will tell `Pandoc` to find the katex s
For it offends me to put unnecessary fat in html files.
## overly clever katex tricks
### overly clever katex tricks
$$k \approx \frac{m\,l\!n(2)}{n}%uses\, to increase spacing, uses \! to merge letters, uses % for comments $$
@ -182,6 +253,96 @@ $$k\text{, the number of hashes} \approx \frac{m\ln(2)}{n}% \text{} for render a
$$\def\mydef#1{\frac{#1}{1+#1}} \mydef{\mydef{\mydef{\mydef{y}}}}%katex macro $$
## Tables
### Pipe table with header and alignment control
Without counting spaces, but without multiline
Pipe table:
| Right | Left | Default | Center |
|------:|:-----|---------|:----------------------:|
| 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 |
| 123 | 123 | 123 | the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog |
| 1 | 1 | Carrian Corporation | 1 |
### And, with less mucking about, alignments
with alignment, without counting spaces, but without multiline
fruit| price
:-----|-----:
apple|2.05
pear|1.37
orange|3.09
### multiline without bothering with pipes
Counting spaces to align. Only editable in fixed font
This allows multiline, but visual studio code does not like it. Visual Studio Code only supports tables that can be intelligibly laid out in visual studio code.
-------------------------------------------------------------
Centered Default Right Left
Header Aligned Aligned Aligned
----------- ------- --------------- -------------------------
First row 12.0 Example of a row that
spans multiple lines.
Second row 5.0 Here's another one. Note
the blank line between
rows.
-------------------------------------------------------------
### The header may be omitted in multiline tables as well as simple tables
Notice the alignment is controlled by the first item in a column
In this table, edited in a fixed font, you are using whitespace and blank lines to lay out the table. It is unintellible in a variable width font.
----------- ------- --------------- -------------------------
First row 12.0 Example of a row that
spans multiple lines.
Second row 5.0 Here's another one. Note
the blank line between
rows.
----------- ------- --------------- -------------------------
### Grid tables
Allows multiline, and alignment, but visual studio does not like it, and you still have to count those spacees
+---------------+---------------+--------------------+
| Fruit | Price | Advantages |
+===============+==============:+====================+
| Bananas | $1.34 | - built-in wrapper |
| | | - bright color |
+---------------+---------------+--------------------+
| Oranges | $2.10 | - cures scurvy |
| | | - tasty |
+---------------+---------------+--------------------+
| Durian | $22.10 | - king of fruits |
+---------------+---------------+--------------------+
Alignments can be specified as with pipe tables, by putting colons at the boundaries of the separator line after the header.
+------------+---------+---------------------+
| Left | Right | Centered |
+:===========+========:+:===================:+
| Bananas | $1.34 | - built-in wrapper |
| | | - bright color |
+------------+---------+---------------------+
| Durian | $22.10 | - king of fruits |
+------------+---------+---------------------+
### For headerless tables, the colons go on the top line instead:
+--------------:+:--------------+:------------------:+
| Right | Left | Centered |
+---------------+---------------+--------------------+
# diagrams
The best way to do diagrams is svg and the Visual Studio Code
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</table>
```
# Tables
## Pipe table with header and alignment control
Without counting spaces, but without multiline
Pipe table:
| Right | Left | Default | Center |
|------:|:-----|---------|:----------------------:|
| 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 |
| 123 | 123 | 123 | the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog |
| 1 | 1 | Carrian Corporation | 1 |
## And, with less mucking about, alignments
with alignment, without counting spaces, but without multiline
fruit| price
:-----|-----:
apple|2.05
pear|1.37
orange|3.09
## multiline without bothering with pipes
Counting spaces to align. Only editable in fixed font
This allows multiline, but visual studio code does not like it. Visual Studio Code only supports tables that can be intelligibly laid out in visual studio code.
-------------------------------------------------------------
Centered Default Right Left
Header Aligned Aligned Aligned
----------- ------- --------------- -------------------------
First row 12.0 Example of a row that
spans multiple lines.
Second row 5.0 Here's another one. Note
the blank line between
rows.
-------------------------------------------------------------
## The header may be omitted in multiline tables as well as simple tables
Notice the alignment is controlled by the first item in a column
In this table, edited in a fixed font, you are using whitespace and blank lines to lay out the table. It is unintellible in a variable width font.
----------- ------- --------------- -------------------------
First row 12.0 Example of a row that
spans multiple lines.
Second row 5.0 Here's another one. Note
the blank line between
rows.
----------- ------- --------------- -------------------------
## Grid tables
Allows multiline, and alignment, but visual studio does not like it, and you still have to count those spacees
+---------------+---------------+--------------------+
| Fruit | Price | Advantages |
+===============+==============:+====================+
| Bananas | $1.34 | - built-in wrapper |
| | | - bright color |
+---------------+---------------+--------------------+
| Oranges | $2.10 | - cures scurvy |
| | | - tasty |
+---------------+---------------+--------------------+
| Durian | $22.10 | - king of fruits |
+---------------+---------------+--------------------+
Alignments can be specified as with pipe tables, by putting colons at the boundaries of the separator line after the header.
+------------+---------+---------------------+
| Left | Right | Centered |
+:===========+========:+:===================:+
| Bananas | $1.34 | - built-in wrapper |
| | | - bright color |
+------------+---------+---------------------+
| Durian | $22.10 | - king of fruits |
+------------+---------+---------------------+
## For headerless tables, the colons go on the top line instead:
+--------------:+:--------------+:------------------:+
| Right | Left | Centered |
+---------------+---------------+--------------------+