Re: Extracting tabular text from a pdf

[David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>]

On Fri 29 Nov 2019 at 06:08:18 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 11/28/2019 09:55 AM, David Wright wrote:
> > [ *SNIP* ]
> > 
> > I must say it surprises me that you don't seem to get on with emacs
> > if you were using TECO professionally at DEC. [snip]
> 
> *ROFL*
> Who ever said my use of TECO deserved the label "professional".
> I was a technician in Power Supply Engineering at the time and TECO
> was the text editor on the system I had access to. DEC hired me for my
> background in low level analog signals, *NOT* for anything CompSci
> related ;/

On Sun 1 Jan 2017 07:36:29 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote:
> Any worse than Digital Equipment's TECO circa 1970?
> You could do strange and wondrous things with it.

… which suggests more than a passing acquaintance with it.
Sorry if I attributed more knowledge to you than you deserved.

(BTW your "any worse than …" referred, once again, to emacs.)

Cheers,
David.