Is there a way that I could put in a placeholder that would pop up compile messages so it doesn't get left in the final version of something by accident?
@SeanAllred So I could go \placeholder{Something} and it will compile fine but spit out Warning: You still have a placeholder in the output text, along with Something, so I know if I've missed a placeholder in the text.
@Canageek there's \textdegree in textcomp I think. You can then define \newcommand\degree{\text{\textdegree} if you load amsmath, and you get \degree that's available in both text and math mode.
@DavidCarlisle yes :-) but pdffonts gave me a lot of different fonts which seems to be used in this document:
$ pdffonts Bureau/piketty_diminishing_returns.pdf name type encoding emb sub uni object ID ------------------------------------ ----------------- ---------------- --- --- --- --------- SIOOZV+URWPalladioL-Bold Type 1 MacRoman yes yes no 11 0 YXAXIX+SFTT1000 Type 1 MacRoman yes yes no 15 0 JVFYQB+CMSY10 Type 1 Custom yes yes yes 10 0
So I guess the main font is URWPalladio but I have no way to actually know it...
@ChristianHupfer I always tried to skill levitation instead of perception. Cannot fly though, i blame it to be a bug with this crappy physics engine called GraVitY.
@PauloCereda seems you are safe, wikipedia says: Beheading was abolished as a method of execution for treason in 1973.[26] However hanging remained available until 1998 when, under a House of Lords amendment to the Crime and Disorder Act 1998, proposed by Lord Archer of Sandwell, the death penalty was abolished for treason ....
*sigh* Does anyone here have experience working with the FSF in the context of an employer? Not looking for legal advice, obviously, just some personal advice.
@FaheemMitha Thanks, I'll check him out :) My employer, or at least someone on the legal team, doesn't feel that it's in their best interest to sign off on FSF submissions
@SeanAllred quite common I suspect, FSF (usually in my experience) want copyright assigned to them, not just code under GPL, and it's not uncommon for software developer contracts to state that your current employer has first rights to any code.
Actually the conversation with one of them concluded by saying that he has made some commits to AUCTeX based on my question. I was a little taken aback.
@SeanAllred I see.
@SeanAllred your resume says you know Common Lisp. Do you ever use it?
@FaheemMitha CL is bloated because people started to complain about everything. Original Lisp has only two types, lists and atoms, and that's about it.
@FaheemMitha The basic point is that you will become a better programmer if you really learn Lisp. Regardless of whether or not you use it (though that's the easiest way to learn), you will walk away with a certain enlightenment.
@PauloCereda The Professor in its natural habitat. Note the variety of pelt colours from the brightly coloured (to confuse predators), to the pale (to blend in with snow in the winter).
@JosephWright The LaTeXian in its natural habitat. Note the variety of pelt colours from the brightly coloured (to confuse predators), to the pale (to blend in with snow in the winter).
@JosephWright Oh, yes. We are a LOT lazier with professor in Canada, it doesn't just refer to tenured faculty (Which we call a 'Full professor'), but any research faculty (Including Assistant Profs, Associate Profs, Profs, and sometimes Prof Emeritus)
@Canageek Getting appointed to the professorial grade would go with a permanent contract certainly
@Canageek For example I currently have a five year contract subject to satisfactory probation. If I pass that I'll have a contract to normal retirement age. Even if I don't, European law means that there would have to be a redundancy procedure.
@Canageek I'm on the Lecturer B grade, the bottom one usually used for teaching/research ('ATR') jobs
@PauloCereda Take Three: The TeXian in their natural habitat...wait, is that a duck? There isn't anything in my script about a duck! Um, here you see the TeXians in their natural habitat, showing a variety of colour scemes on their pelts, and the um, duck, defends itself with its thick, Santa outfit.....I got nothing....
Ah. We have lecturers who only teach, sessionals who are hired per-course to teach and are paid worse then grad students per hour, professors (Research and teaching). Standard form of address as an undergrad is to call anyone at the front of a lecture hall "Professor". Research faculty can then get chairs/fellowships/etc that often specify you have to do less/no teaching to accept it.
@Canageek Per-hour stuff is an issue in the UK but more so at post-1992 universities which tend to have a lower research profile. I don't think our job contracts ever specify a teaching/research balance for ATR but people who do well at raising research money get 'buy out' from teaching.
@JosephWright Our government grants have very tight limits on what you can spend them on, and that is banned, but if you have funding from other sources that is possible.
@JosephWright Yeah, we need a special equipment grant for that.
@JosephWright Our grant for a liquid gallium XRD was just turned down, but we think the problem was the other universities part of it, so we'll probably resubmit it next year with just profs from SFU
