TeX, LaTeX and Friends

10:49 AM

Now I owe drinks to Andrew Stacey, Gonzalo Medina and Martin Scharrer. =P

11:33 AM

So, better:

Strut (typesetting)

In typesetting, a strut is an invisible character or element, used to ensure that a text has a minimum height and depth, even if no other elements are included. For example, LaTeX and plainTeX Donald E. Knuth. The TeXbook (Computers and Typesetting, Volume A). Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley, 1984. ISBN 0-201-13448-9, page 82. provide the command \strut to insert a font size specific strut. In LaTeX Braams, J. and Carlisle, D. and Jeffrey, A. and Lamport, L. and Mittelbach, F. and Rowley, C. and Schöpf, R., The LaTeX2e Sources. 2009/09/24, pages 19 and 129. Available online as [...

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12:49 PM

That link thing works with wikipedia now!? That's cool. What other sites does it work with?

(ARG. I tried to transpose letters emacs style with C-t. but that opened a new tab...)

@PauloCereda My favourite Dijkstra quote is "The question of whether machines can think is as interesting as the question of whether submarines can swim" (or words to that effect)

1:05 PM

@Seamus haha, that one is great!

1:18 PM

@Seamus Talking about editors, I remembered this quote about vi: Q: How to generate a random string? A: Put a fresh student in front of vi and tell him to quit.

@PauloCereda I like it.

1:33 PM

BAM. Another "low hanging fruit" question picked off by yours truly. 10k here I come...

@Seamus yay! Epic reputation is epic.

2:10 PM

Better stop answering questions or I'll hit the rep cap.

2:26 PM

2:38 PM

Wow, I just blinked and Martin Scharrer has now almost 31k.

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4:00 PM

@Paulo: I need to take over Stefan before egreg gets there ;-)

@PauloCereda I my early vim days I used to do CTRL+Z and kill % to quit vim :-D

@MartinScharrer hehe I did that too. A lot.

Caramdir

Should documentclass be documentclasses ?

Before Firefox had the feature of saving opened tabs, I used to kill firefox when I wanted to keep my session alive. =P

@Paulo: I used to kill firefox to be able to start it again shortly after I (mostly accidentally) closed it. Otherwise, I got an "already running" error message.

@Caramdir: To stay consistent with the plural actually yes.

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6:00 PM

Happy Tau Day (late)!