I was always upset that my PhD advisor would read printouts of my paper drafts and correct my LaTeX by hand in the margins.
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I was always upset that my PhD advisor would read printouts of my paper drafts and correct my LaTeX by hand in the margins. I mean, not even seeing the code...?
Now I'm reading paper drafts by my PhD students and collaborators as PDFs and also correcting their TeX code because I cannot stand wrong font for maths or wrong spaces between numbers and units. I wish I could stop, but I just can't...
It's all my PhD advisor's fault! *shakes fist in the direction of her old institute*
@vicgrinberg haha done the same. It is unbearable to see ill written LaTeX documents or misuse of macros.
Unfortunately, I am now no longer at a university and see butchered documents written in Word or Writer.
And I only have to blame myself for becoming such a pedantic or it was that book on typography I got back in the days as a birthday present.
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@masek bwahaha... Ok, that's a level above the TeX corrections
@vicgrinberg I can’t do TeX corrections, so that sounds more difficult
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I was always upset that my PhD advisor would read printouts of my paper drafts and correct my LaTeX by hand in the margins. I mean, not even seeing the code...?
Now I'm reading paper drafts by my PhD students and collaborators as PDFs and also correcting their TeX code because I cannot stand wrong font for maths or wrong spaces between numbers and units. I wish I could stop, but I just can't...
It's all my PhD advisor's fault! *shakes fist in the direction of her old institute*
@vicgrinberg You have any idea how long it too me to not type 2 spaces after a period in Word?!
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I was always upset that my PhD advisor would read printouts of my paper drafts and correct my LaTeX by hand in the margins. I mean, not even seeing the code...?
Now I'm reading paper drafts by my PhD students and collaborators as PDFs and also correcting their TeX code because I cannot stand wrong font for maths or wrong spaces between numbers and units. I wish I could stop, but I just can't...
It's all my PhD advisor's fault! *shakes fist in the direction of her old institute*
@vicgrinberg looking back, I cannot help noticing that the next stage is to keep the TeX versions of a text in a VCS (e.g. git) and only look at the changes (not looking through the whole text all over again) when co-authors send you an update.
Then (in my case) one gets annoyed when co-authors needlessly re-format the whole text, rendering looking at the changes much less straightforward. (And the last stage for me was a serious burnout ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)
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@vicgrinberg teach a person typography and they will suffer from seeing bad typography for life
@mxk @vicgrinberg Warning: this is also true of welding
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I was always upset that my PhD advisor would read printouts of my paper drafts and correct my LaTeX by hand in the margins. I mean, not even seeing the code...?
Now I'm reading paper drafts by my PhD students and collaborators as PDFs and also correcting their TeX code because I cannot stand wrong font for maths or wrong spaces between numbers and units. I wish I could stop, but I just can't...
It's all my PhD advisor's fault! *shakes fist in the direction of her old institute*
@vicgrinberg The textbook by my Echtzeitsysteme prof was apparently typeset in Word or whatever. Oh my did that look crappy ...
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@sim @sci_photos I honestly think my generation wasn't that different (at least in my little corner, where our journals all require to submit latex files using their own stylefiles) - it's just that I had an advisor who has typesetting as a hobby and learned a bit too well
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@baszoetekouw @knud pssst, nobody admits to this loudly...
@vicgrinberg @baszoetekouw @knud oh Knuth himself clearly mentions this as a viable strategy, don't worry, it's nothing to be ashamed of. But only do that when the text is FINAL
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@vicgrinberg @baszoetekouw @knud oh Knuth himself clearly mentions this as a viable strategy, don't worry, it's nothing to be ashamed of. But only do that when the text is FINAL
@oblomov @vicgrinberg @baszoetekouw @knud
Do it when the text is "final_reallyfinal_v2.2_done_corr3_edits.tex" -
@vicgrinberg teach a person typography and they will suffer from seeing bad typography for life
@mxk It is true and my life is ruined
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@oblomov @vicgrinberg @baszoetekouw @knud
Do it when the text is "final_reallyfinal_v2.2_done_corr3_edits.tex"@jannem @vicgrinberg @baszoetekouw @knud
I guess using git for source tracking and collaboration is a bit too much still 8-D
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@jannem @vicgrinberg @baszoetekouw @knud
I guess using git for source tracking and collaboration is a bit too much still 8-D
@oblomov @vicgrinberg @baszoetekouw @knud
I did use git for my papers. It's a godsend! Check in every new revision as you write. Edited versions from your coauthors go into a branch with their name before being merged into main.Highly recommend.
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@vicgrinberg teach a person typography and they will suffer from seeing bad typography for life
@mxk @vicgrinberg Teach a person languages and they will suffer from seeing bad machine translations for life
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