@AndrewStacey I'd say that accepting just means (almost) the same as on the main site: This is what helped the OP most, or what the OP liked best. But it's still good that you asked: The marking as "Accepted" should have no connection with our "policy". There one should have a look at the top voted answers, not the accepted answer.
@Jake: You seem pretty expert, considering you haven't been doing it long
@Jake: well, my current project could be called that, yes. but i do other things too. i can point you to a link for this bmc paper if you are interested.
@Faheem: Not really, no. TikZ somehow just really makes sense to me, and the documentation is great.
@Faheem: I'm a grad student, and at the moment staying in academia seems like a more tempting idea than going into corporate engineering. Not much time for toying around with fun stuff once you start at an engineering firm.
Just now I have some spare time to retag some figures question. Sadly, about one third of the questions at the start page already display "lockstep". Sigh.
@FaheemMitha Retagging all questions tagged with, say, citation to "citing" can be done automatically. But skimming the figures tag and retagging some questions to floats, others to graphics, others again to something else has to be done manually (and with at least some understanding).
There are a few questions where an answer has been accepted really quickly. In at least one case, the question got an answer after 20 minutes and had an accepted answer less than 30 minutes from being asked.
I'm all in favour of accepting answers. (I've accepted an answer in 10 of the 11 I've as...
@HendrikVogt: Regarding my question at meta about verbose questions, you stated in your answer (which I accepted ;-)) that you already had suggested the OP to change the title. I can't find such a suggestion, however. (Also, the OP is an unregistered user and therefore may not be allowed to edit his own question.)
It's no problem at all to accept another answer if it's better. But if a question has an accepted answer, others might be deterred from giving that better answer.
@lockstep It was a question of xport, and maybe I deleted my comment or the question was deleted. See also my comment to that "full remainder in polynomial long division" question; there I actually did the edit myself.
@StefanKottwitz Well possible. I'm flagging too much, and when I do, I often immediately forget. (Was this very recent?) But never mind, it's not so important.
@HendrikVogt: I was looking in the latex.ltx file to see how \newcommand worked. At some point, it has to call \def\command#1#2#3...{...} but the number of arguments is specified at call time so somehow the right #1#2#3... bit has to be inserted in to the code. It's truly mind-boggling how it works.
@MartinScharrer: Yes, that's what I was looking at. It took me a while to figure out how it worked and when I did, I was suitably impressed. Didn't know about source2e.pdf, I'll look there in future. Thanks.
@AndrewStacey There is also the summary about some of the source2e macros: macros2e, but only the once useful for package writers.
@AndrewStacey: Also note the texdef script I just published. It allows you to go through the definitions one by one. However the unformatted display isn't nice for longer macros. The DTX file / source2e is better.
@MartinScharrer: I was looking (in case anyone's interested) because I want to write a variant of \newcommand that works as follows: \mynewcommand{\hello}[3] defines a macro \hello that takes three arguments and expands to \string\hello\{#1\}\{#2\}\{#3\}. The difficulty is figuring out how to adapt the way that \newcommand defines the parameters to also define the substitution text.
@HendrikVogt No manual retagging of old questions for the next 24 hours, I promise. ;-) BTW, align (math environment) vs. alignment looks like yet another thing that needs to be sorted out.
@FaheemMitha: If you create a minimal example and provide the bst file in question you could post it on the main site as question. Otherwise the author or the bst file might be able to help.
@Seamus Thanks! To be honest, I'm hoping for @domwass to answer it. His guide about creating own biblatex styles is hot stuff (at least for those of us that are fluent in German).
@MartinScharrer thanks, I will have a good look at the dtx tomorrow. It shouldn't otherwise if I change the language to say greek it shouldn't change the original command \dateenglish should remain valid.
@YiannisLazarides I'm sure you're right on that. My characterisation of the problem as being the second last language only applies to 'dialects' of the same language, I think.
@lockstep Is there any hope for an English translation of it? biblatex is sorely missing a kind of tutorial document.
@MartinScharrer Yes, that seems to be the behaviour. So this is really a bug, IMO, since as the part of the docs that I quoted says, english should be simply synonymous to USenglish and american.
@YiannisLazarides Yes, me too. It's funny how such a simple question can raise such issues. (Also that hyphenation marking luatex code is pretty cool too.)
