@Maïeul A possible way IMHO is to write a macro that wraps the addition of an element and performs a binary search based on your specific criteria. So, you guarantee your list is always sorted after each insertion. :)
Breaking the paragraph hold
TeX sets paragraphs as a whole by collecting horizontal lines one after the other and stacking them. These horizontal lists that are stacked usually have the same width. If you which to break the monotony, \parshape comes to the rescue. However, it's very cumbersome t...
Paragraph shapes that change at the page boundary... It's a bit awkward though.
Awkward as in very specialized. And I assume there would be enough of an argument that such edge-cases could stick to manual adjustments.
@AaronHall I agree with @JosephWright . I find it's tricky to give talks about programming without being boring. I would keep code fragments to a minimum unless there can be a hands-on component. And maybe provide some example code that people can download for later.
My code samples aren't for actual usage. Demonstration purposes only. I have a small proof that uses multiple inheritance, and I'm going to hand-wave it and send them to SO for the full explanation.
@JosephWright I once heard Sergei Nirenburg (well known CS person) give a talk where he basically went through lines of Lisp and "explained" them. It was amazing(ly bad).
@AaronHall I guess what I meant is that if you find yourself explaining lots of code you are likely to bore and/or lose people. So you need to stick to more conceptual issues and pseudo code for example.
Oh yeah, definitely not going to be explaining a lot of real code. I wanted to pull an example out of logging.py though as something I'd rather had been done differently, but I haven't gotten around to making the slide.
@Johannes_B Not too much. It also sets footnote text size and there's some boilerplate language. But there's some funny stuff about TOC formatting and a couple of other little things that aren't so easy and one bit of code (which is a class option) that rotates headers on landscape pages. Mainly I got tired of answering questions from my students, so I sat down one day and made a class. The hardest part is keeping up with the idiots in the thesis office, who change requirements on a whim.
@Johannes_B But now lots of people use it around the whole university.
@AlanMunn It seems that american universities are worst with respect to strange settings. Is there anything (in your opinion) that can be done to somehow standardize such rules?
@Johannes_B Only a German could think that this would be possible. :) This is the land of "individual freedom" [sic] which means in this case each individual university should have its own standard... But a colleague and I have been pushing to have looser standards and making some progress. My university is far from the worst. I had to fight my PhD institution to be able to use italics instead of underlining!
@AlanMunn it isn't standardized in germany either. Probably worse, every supervisor has its own rules, they are overridedn by the professor but not overridden by the university (in my experience).
@AaronHall Well grantied this was in the dark ages of the 90s... But still it was ridiculous at the time.
@Johannes_B Yes, in a way that can be worse, but I suspect that in most fields, people just use something sensible that matches the practice in their field. At least the experience here seems to be that people can do whatever they like.
@AaronHall These days they try to blame it on ProQuest which is the US repository for dissertations and theses, but their standards are very minimal.
@AlanMunn no, not field, every doctorate supervisinz Phd-student na devery PhD-student supervising a masters candidate has it very own opinion on how a bib should look like.
@Johannes_B But I think also that those of us in the sciences underestimate the complexity of the problem, since we mainly cite articles and books. But in some areas of the humanities there is a much broader range of sources.
@Johannes_B Perhaps you would like to adapt an answer for tex.stackexchange.com/q/261148/3954? I know how to achieve what the OP wants but using fancyhdr; no idea how to do it using scrlayer-scrpage, so perhaps you could adapt my code? (If you want to, of course).
@AaronHall Have you thought about contacting the author directly? People are usually happy to send you a copy or point you to all the articles that it turned into.
@GonzaloMedina Saw the question but didn't bother to answer. It is late and i had my Feierabendbier. I am very confident that @esdd is going to take it and answer it. If anybody, she is our KOMA expert.
@GonzaloMedina We have the informal policy of not closing a Q within a few weeks, i think we can wait a day before investing real effort to answer a Q.
