@JosephWright Yes, for something work related it's in the ballpark, although still on the steep side as linguistics conferences go, but I agree, for what for me is truly just a tool and partially a hobby it's a lot.
@AlanMunn Chemistry conferences must be more than linguistics ones: I'm paying ~£600 per conference and doing 2 this summer, one 4 day, one 5 day. The 4 day does include accommodation but the 5 day doesn't in the fee. Then there's the £70 conference meal I've got to pay still for one of them ...
@JosephWright Yes, the big difference is that you have lots of corporate types who probably also attend these. And you have relatively more grant money to pay for this sort of thing. Conferences are pretty much what the market will bear. Also as the size becomes larger, the need for commercial organizers increases, which also increases the costs a lot. The conference I just ran (about 70 people) was organized by me and two other people and all the money raised internally or from registration fees.
@AlanMunn Indeed: we ran one a few years ago here (Norwich) for about 100 people, and that was about £150 for the academics and I think £90 for students for 2 days. We more-or-less broke even.
@JosephWright For example conferences with a big medical contingent (like the Academy of Aphasia, which I presented at a long time ago) are super expensived.
@AlanMunn You are of course right about grant support, but for my two I'm paying out of some 'slush' money we've made doing some commercial stuff (a small pot: we are basically using all of it this summer). My postdoc has £1200 per year for conferences, so will get to one per year + a small amount for a UK meeting
@AlanMunn We did get some sponsorship
@AlanMunn I don't do biochemistry :-) Certainly not the end that pharma are interested in
@AlanMunn We mainly get journals, equipment suppliers and chemical suppliers at our meetings
@JosephWright Yes, our travel funds are miserable too. We get at most $1000 from our department ($700 first trip/$300 second), and no conference, even domestic can usually be done for less than $1000.
@JosephWright At least I can deduct the expenses from my taxes, which helps some.
@JosephWright Because in such a large country, there are very few places you don't need to fly to, so domestic conferences also usually involve airfare.
@JosephWright Isn't texdoc supposed to search for stuff in the local texmf before the distribution texmf? My texdoc seems to be finding the distribution version not my local version.
I want to use gnuplottex, but even example from documentation don't work.
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{gnuplottex}
\begin{document}
\begin{figure}%
\centering%
\begin{gnuplot}[terminal=latex, terminaloptions=rotate]
set key box top left
...
@ChristianHupfer That's some pretty subtle punctuation rule you have going on in the abbreviations meta post: O.P. = original poster and OP = original post? I think they're identical and only context decides which phrase is intended.
@ChristianHupfer Maybe it's nitpicking, but I think this is a made up distinction, which in a post to help people who don't know much will just add to their confusion. :)
@ChristianHupfer As for Physics, I browse the questions occasionally but there's nothing there I would dream of answering. I had very terrible physics in high school and whatever else I know is self-taught.
@ChristianHupfer Just to be clear, the punctuation per se isn't the issue, it's using it to distinguish meanings. So I don't really care about O.P. vs. OP or C.W. vs CW as long as they aren't claimed to be distinct in meaning. But I think I will change it.
@AlanMunn I applied a constantly 'ungrammatical' measuring operator on English grammar so the system is prepared in one of infinite ungrammatical eigenstates ...
@ChristianHupfer excuse invalid, you were probably taught formal English grammar as part of the German educational system, gives you an unfair advantage.
@DavidCarlisle This is actually one of the most famous lines from the movie in German dubbing
@JosephWright Don't forget Loretta's demand for security of women ;-) The British government would have placed surveillance cameras in Jerusalem at that time, of course, in every corner ;-)
I want to use gnuplottex, but even example from documentation don't work.
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{gnuplottex}
\begin{document}
\begin{figure}%
\centering%
\begin{gnuplot}[terminal=latex, terminaloptions=rotate]
set key box top left
...
