Following on from this question about stripping newlines out of text, I want to turn this into a zsh alias as follows: alias striplines=' awk " /^$/ {print \"\n\"; } /./ {printf( \" %s \",$0);}"' I've tried escaping the quotes inside the awk script, but I'm getting this error: awk: (FILENAME=...

I appreciate that in the past, latex was faster than pdflatex, but computer speeds being what they are nowadays, I can't see any difference in how quickly documents compile... So, given that the end product I want is the PDF, are there good reasons not to always compile to pdf?

Last month, the flag limits got an increase based on reputation points: In order to encourage more flagging, we have increased the number of general moderator flags available to 10 per day, plus one per every 1k of reputation, up to a maximum of 100. So if you have 15k reputation, you now hav...

There have been a few questions about braces recently, specifically about when to use them (see this and that question). Note: I had mistakenly stated that SamB was the author of both questions. But there are other ways to get token lists that behave like braces. For instance, { and } \let\bg...