I was always upset that my PhD advisor would read printouts of my paper drafts and correct my LaTeX by hand in the margins.

[vicgrinberg@mastodon.social]

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*

[knud@mastodon.social]

@vicgrinberg

" - ": ‍
$km/s$:
"e.g. something":
"(\cite{REF})":

[cblte@nrw.social]

@vicgrinberg I feel the same way when I spot double spaces or even a single character off in the indentation. It’s frustrating, and I have to step in and correct it, along with explaining that what they wrote isn’t quite right. Plus, even if the fonts are all the same, I notice a difference on the first line, which can be a bit upsetting.

[mxk@hachyderm.io]

@vicgrinberg teach a person typography and they will suffer from seeing bad typography for life

[vicgrinberg@mastodon.social]

@mxk ahaha, this!!!

[rstub@digitalcourage.social]

@vicgrinberg
Back in the the days when I was proofreading diploma thesis I used two different pen colours. One for the really important stuff and one for typographical corrections. That way they could easily ignore the things that I could not. But that is of course different when ones name is on the paper. Then stuff like that is critical (says the one who made a font to use in his PhD thesis ...).

[klara@drupal.community]

@mxk @vicgrinberg knowing kerning can be hard on the senses

#typography

[uint8_t@chaos.social]

@vicgrinberg reminds me of the time in Technical Drawing class during my BSc the professor was correcting someone‘s work in front of the whole class, marking the transparent drawing paper with a red pen. The student, startled, not believing his eyes interrupted him: „I think you’re looking at it from the backside “

without even looking up or flipping the paper, he said in a monotone, calm, emotionless voice: „I know.“

We weren’t able to tell if he was lazy or just showing off

[rstub@digitalcourage.social]

@Klara
Obligatory XKCD https://xkcd.com/1015/
@mxk @vicgrinberg

[ftranschel@norden.social]

@mxk @vicgrinberg I am still recovering from the infamous Higgs presentation.

[klara@drupal.community]

@rstub @mxk @vicgrinberg there will come a day where we just mention the number and start laughing

[etchedpixels@mastodon.social]

@mxk @vicgrinberg and the font of all knowledge

[ditsch42@troet.cafe]

@vicgrinberg For our last paper, I regularly went through the draft and corrected all these little inconsistencies. I was taught that way by a postdoc during my PhD (my PhD advisor was also the "badly readable scribbles on PDF" type).
My new prof. calls himself a "typography nerd", but it basically means that he likes this one font and he will notice every single character in the paper that is not this font.

[baszoetekouw@mastodon.nl]

@vicgrinberg @knud and just keep changing the text until all underfull hboxes are gone!

[hmwilker@social.tchncs.de]

@vicgrinberg I seem to have a limit for the frequency of this kind of error above which I cannot take in the content anymore. I only see the errors after that.

[goldenmeanie@mastodon.publicinterest.town]

@mxk @vicgrinberg Me carefully sizing my window to take a screencap of this joke with good linebreaks.

[vicgrinberg@mastodon.social]

@goldenmeanie

[vicgrinberg@mastodon.social]

@baszoetekouw @knud pssst, nobody admits to this loudly...

[vicgrinberg@mastodon.social]

@hmwilker ahah, yes Or at least I get really pissy in my comments - and I have a few collaborators who are really terrible and don't even try

[shadsterling@mastodon.social]

@vicgrinberg we have linting / style guide enforcement tools for programming languages, do we have similar tools for TeX?