I keep seeing people (mostly new, non-English native users) which add a space before punctuation in their posts. This leads sometimes that a comma or question mark is placed at the beginning of a line. Are there actually languages which add such spaces bu intention or is that just personal "style"?
@MartinScharrer Yes, French typography requires that semicolons, question mark and exclamation mark are preceded by a "thick space", while the colon must be preceded by a normal interword space. This reflects into typing habits.
@egreg: Thanks for that. Actually I was asking a related question on comp.text.tex last week, about how images should be top-aligned relative to text. I wasn't thinking about table cells but normal text. I would have gone with the height of the upper-case 'X' (you remember my other question about that), because \ht\strutbox is a little larger then the text. However, after seeing your answer I actually just use \ht\strutbox for that. It will make my life easier anyway!
@BrunoLeFloch Nice. It also pointed me to generator.lorem-ipsum.info. It gives you e.g. a Greek variant of lorem ipsum! (We could give "language" support to lipsum)
Last night I posted an answer that involved patching a command. So I used etoolbox to do it, whereas in earlier times I might have just done a new \def or \renewcommand enclosed in \makeatletter ... etc. On the one hand, using etoolbox is cleaner; on the other hand, it adds a package. Any thoughts on which should be preferred (or under which circumstances?)
@MartinScharrer Yes, I was mainly thinking about user documents (and especially for answers posted here). I agree in packages it's best to minimize dependencies.
@BrunoLeFloch: I wasn't really serious and blindtext provides already similar things.
@AlanMunn: I wouldn't mind using etoolbox here. A lot of visitors are better suitedd with high-level commands. The OP might understand lower level commands, but there might be others with the same issue.
@MartinScharrer Neat. But for a 12 column table with I don't know how many images it would actually be better to define \newcommand\tig[2][]{\raisebox{\dimexpr-\height+\ht\strutbox}{\includegraphics[width=7.3in,#1]{#2}}}, including the desired width in the definition, minimizing input.
@AlanMunn etoolbox is quite heavy, but it's used also by other common packages (think to biblatex); in that case a simpler \g@addto@macro would have done the job. Probably \appto would have been sufficient.
@egreg Yes, I forgot about the simpler \appto. The downside of \g@addto@macro is that it's not so obviously documented so that if someone wants to understand the macro, it's not sure where to look. But I agree that etoolbox is a big package to add for a simple fix, hence my question.
Since recently moderators can see a list of deleted comments (which is not displayed nicely with Firefox 5 under Ubuntu Linux btw). There should be a possibility to undelete these comments as well, at least for a certain period of time. Sometimes moderators delete the wrong comment by accident an...
@MartinScharrer: "prints" a TeX.SX thread to pdf or tex file. If it's tex, the code is formatted with listings and if there are any images, they are downloaded to the current directory and referenced in the file.
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I have already started designing T-Shirts and Stickers for some of the SE2.0 communities.
For example: Gaming, Programmers, English etc. I'll try to finish up the swag design for all of our graduated communities this month.
We'll send out a free swag package to the top users(first 2 pages, sor...
