when I run lvm vgscan -vv I see it scanning for VGs and it shows a list of everything and when it gets to /dev/hdd it has a size for it and then when it opens it it fails
any particular one you have in mind for a rescue disc?
@Ramesh Are you offended when Native English Speakers like me edit your posts. (Hypothetically) Read the Comments Here: askubuntu.com/questions/571412/…
@eyoung100 No. There are always people who do not wish to be corrected even if they are wrong. But we are not doing these corrections for the OP but for the community. So, just ignore such baseless comments and let us continue the good work towards the betterment of our community :)
@eyoung100 if he rolled it back, I'd drop the matter. It happened to me once. The vast majority of people don't respond. I do a fair amount of editing. Though mostly minor grammar and typo fixing.
@eyoung100 I see no wrong in your edit. And in fact, it is approved by other users in AU (which says your edit is correct and valid). So, better notify some mods in AU.
@FaheemMitha Yes, look at the difference between his English and mine... I just wanted advice on how to handle it. I corrected it because the answer was correct, not to punish him. And correctnes validated @Ramesh statement about the good of the community
@gilles - If people who try to answer your questions misinterpret your (incidentally not particularly specific and clear) instructions, don't get mad at them for coming up with a solution that doesn't meet your needs. To downvote their well-intentioned answer is a hostile act -- it's not a normal reaction, for sure. — Mico9 mins ago
Wow, that's not at all the kind of reception I was expecting from TeX - LaTeX
(especially given that the answer contradicted a very explicit requirement in the first version of my question)
On of the high rep users, Andrew I think, even made a sort of policy statement in Meta some time ago, saying they discouraged downvoting. And most people seemed to agree with him. Especially the high-rep users.
@Gilles Yes, maybe. You downvoted the answer? How would anyone know it was you?
@FaheemMitha there's something wrong with the correlation of downvote = rude or upvote = friendly, you are either right or wrong, the voting is nothing personal towards you
@Braiam while downvotes may or may not be unfriendly in themselves, there is definitely a correlation between downvoting and friendliness on the network. As measured by other, perhaps less tangible, criteria.
And TeX is definitely very friendly. Short of following you around and offering to do your work for you, it is hard to imagine how they could be friendlier.
@Gilles If you mean the Mico comment, yes, that was a little uncalled for. I don't do it. I don't criticize other people for doing it. Was there someone else too?
My previous boss was a Word fan, and a my-way-or-the-highway attitude. My current boss has a whatever-gets-the-job-done attitude, so I do use LaTeX sometimes.
And I'm worried that if I leave the company, no one will be able to maintain my LaTeX stuff.
I've used pandoc quite a bit recently. It was easy to learn from me because I'm fluent in markdown, but even for someone who isn't, it's pretty straightforward.
The main problem I have is that I usually don't understand their solutions. Then I camp out in chat and ask silly questions.
@derobert Well, yuck may be overstating it. But I just think it is rather limited. Maybe Ok if you really have no interest in TeX/LaTeX and just want to get something that works. But you cannot do anything even slightly powerful or custom via LyX.
@derobert I'd have thought you would write LaTeX directly...
@derobert I don't want the UI! That's my main annoyance with Word for technical specs. The output is ugly but I don't really mind. But the UI-centric approach makes it impossible to do things in a repeatable way.
e.g. I write the documentation of an API. In LaTeX I define an environment \begin{definefunction}{name}{parameter list} description \end{environment}. Then I specify how to style it, and I add the name to an index.
In a visual editor, I'd have to: set a style for the description paragraph, set a style for the function name, set a style for the parameters, all of these separately. And add an index entry for the function name.
@Gilles You'd add it to the list of environments, then you'd select that environment from the menu, and enter in the parameters... (or of course set a keyboard shutcut, to use it often)
@Gilles you'll want to check out Document -> Settings. "Modules" is a way to make reusable bits of LaTeX to insert into your documents. "LaTeX Preamble" is where you dump raw LaTeX code to put at the start of the document.
Insert -> TeX Code lets you put arbitrary LaTeX anywhere in the document
Obviously, with both of those, you're responsible for not breaking it (e.g., by syntax errors, forgetting to close your environments, etc.)
@FaheemMitha Less work to get started. You can open it up, pick things from the menu, and produce a LaTeX document. I prefer to pull it out for small things, even when I don't need to worry about anyone else ever having to edit it (e.g., a letter).
I just saw this in my Google result:
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